tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.comments2009-12-07T19:49:40.252-06:00Schood: Schools and FoodAbbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786593453020038596noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-7653199871214547112009-12-06T16:07:16.863-06:002009-12-06T16:07:16.863-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00457214306342195642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-48748827561903212662009-11-28T18:20:42.257-06:002009-11-28T18:20:42.257-06:00Hey Ab, thanks for another interesting post. It...Hey Ab, thanks for another interesting post. It's so nice to read something non-clinical but important to healthcare in a larger sense. In regards to obesity rates, the CDC actually has a boatload of statistics for the US, some divided by race and ethnicity. Non-Hispanic blacks have the highest rate of obesity, Hispanics are 2nd, and non-Hispanic whites are 3rd. From my observations in the hospital and Worcester community, obesity (and diabetes and all that follows) is particularly a problem among middle-aged and older Hispanic women. Sometimes having a strong cultural association with food is actually deleterious to the individual, as any dietitian who works with Hispanic diabetic patients will tell you. Limiting carbohydrates is not an option. And exercise is definitely not a cultural norm, at least not for women of a certain age. However, despite this, I think the value placed on food and family in Hispanic cultures is hugely valuable. Perhaps the solution to the obesity epidemic in this population lies on the other side of the calorie equation - encouraging young Hispanic girls as well as boys to participate in sports (and keep participating as they grow), making neighborhoods safer for walking, etc etc. <br /><br />Annnnyhoo, those are my thoughts for the evening. And now that I've made myself hungry thinking of rice and beans, I'm off to the local Mexican restaurant with Hector. Hope all is well and I'll see you at Xmas!Julia Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909859263050284097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-60961304464051511692009-11-26T10:32:42.039-06:002009-11-26T10:32:42.039-06:00Abby, this is for me, a really interesting blog wi...Abby, this is for me, a really interesting blog with some interesting questions. Your taking the kids out for a meal reminds of an episode of The Wire, where an African American ex-policeman, turned teacher, takes some of his really difficult kids out to a restaurant for the first time in their live. As far as I know, the Mexican/Latino diet is heavily based on complex carbohydrates, chillies, beans and all the stuff I'm sure you know about. My inference is that their culture is more compact, and they probably have a strong sense of their own identity. I suspect that although there's clearly a racial identity amongst African Americans, and to a degree a cultural and spiritual one, their identity is more diffuse, and their history in the US more troubled. While these cultural dimensions must surely influence eating habits, I suspect the emotional ones and speaking about them are also key. In my experience, Latin American and Hispanic cultures are very verbal ones, and they are used to expressing feelings in words. I'm not so sure about African Americans, and obviously I'm not talking about the likes of Oprah. Well, some thoughts, and enjoy Thanksgiving.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-53098100722691614362009-11-24T05:06:59.862-06:002009-11-24T05:06:59.862-06:00Great blog! would those obese students be willing...Great blog! would those obese students be willing to work on their food intake? keeping a food log might be helpful. Also talking about different feelings with them - mad, sad, lonely etc and help them identify if they are eating to numb those feelings. A feelings diary might be another step.<br />Body awareness - recognising physical hunger and fullness cues.<br />Hey their might be a whole couse on this or a group.......Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10447803760781807690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-74881895423612461222009-11-22T14:40:21.177-06:002009-11-22T14:40:21.177-06:00Interesting subject and great commentary! My expe...Interesting subject and great commentary! My experience in Austin was with much younger kids, and it was clear to me that food preferences and behavior were already being set in kindergarten. The mexican, mexican-american or central american kids in my classes had already experienced lots of food traditions at 5 or 6 years old -- festivals with particular foods & preparations, gardens, and among some, really strong family bonding around traditional foods. It was a noticeable cultural feature that was definitely not as evident among the african american families.Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05252602828022853959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-62888762249694138062009-11-18T19:24:34.169-06:002009-11-18T19:24:34.169-06:00Food is just as much of {if not more} an addictive...Food is just as much of {if not more} an addictive and problematic concern...there are just as many emotional, behavioral and social implications that go into..."eating" and "not eating" as there are...drugs, alcohol, and smoking...so basically to this post...<br /><br />TRUE DAT ABBY...KFrayzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02140696677404346807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-14921076144210870372009-11-18T19:18:23.028-06:002009-11-18T19:18:23.028-06:00{ am playing blog KETCHUP }
* I once gave a two h...{ am playing blog KETCHUP }<br /><br />* I once gave a two hour presentation on Healthy Eating and Healthy Food Choices...that EVEN included...Nutrition Jeopardy...my tweens finished the afternoon by cleaning up and turning to each other with the following:<br /><br />Tween1: Ready, oh and hey do you still have that coupon for the free Whopper?<br /><br />Tween2: Yes! Let's go to BK! I am starving!<br /><br />Me: Seriously?<br /><br />* also...juice sparkler is bomb...I have started to add frozen berries to mine for added vitamins! mmm!KFrayzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02140696677404346807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-50388482153462016522009-11-18T19:06:30.030-06:002009-11-18T19:06:30.030-06:00Awesome Abby As Always...
* wouldn't it be ju...Awesome Abby As Always...<br /><br />* wouldn't it be just {lovely and delicious} if Walmart would actually purchase their produce from YOUR local growers? {sigh} {dreams}.<br /><br />* in regards to the s'mores debate/conversation: It is also so wonderful when you get to give the gift of...portion control! {as I taught my gang of tweens this summer camping}...nothing wrong with them, as long as you don't over due!<br /><br />Cheers and Yum!KFrayzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02140696677404346807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-50550042967246116162009-11-08T20:53:50.581-06:002009-11-08T20:53:50.581-06:00Woooohhhoooo! It's been too long since I'...Woooohhhoooo! It's been too long since I've gotten a chance to get up to date on this, my favorite of all blogs. Sounds like you had an amazing job and helped bring a nuanced perspective to students and staff about food choices. No one thing is categorically "good" or "bad" all the time - it's about context and culture, sharing and moderation. Go Ms. Randall for devoting yourself to this endeavor! I prepared beet, quinoa, and arugula salad for the teens this week which met with much success to my surprise - though most ate halloween candy or food from McDonald's right before my nutritious treat... Ahhh... compromise...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364381328515395676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-3876132964984407792009-10-27T07:36:50.001-05:002009-10-27T07:36:50.001-05:00Ha ha, Cheezits....wonder where you get that from ...Ha ha, Cheezits....wonder where you get that from ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03811262222652109625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-70031242107774100062009-10-08T09:27:10.331-05:002009-10-08T09:27:10.331-05:00Thanks for this comprehensive editorial. I am on t...Thanks for this comprehensive editorial. I am on the team who use the term rBGH, and will be paying attention to who uses what letters. I very much apprecitate your pros and cons approach here, and couldn't agree more with the idea of put the non-contridictory milk in front of the kids. Good work!Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03518073684691399739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-16564493507095962422009-10-06T09:34:33.457-05:002009-10-06T09:34:33.457-05:00abby,
you just rock!
jenniferabby,<br /><br />you just rock!<br /><br />jenniferAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-64143949566587031692009-09-23T07:12:36.491-05:002009-09-23T07:12:36.491-05:00Change happens one small step at a time. Looking ...Change happens one small step at a time. Looking forward to hearing more about milk......<br /><br />ValAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10447803760781807690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-41590878673626564032009-09-22T23:06:38.031-05:002009-09-22T23:06:38.031-05:00abby, I really enjoy reading this. I am heavily an...abby, I really enjoy reading this. I am heavily anticipating the next part of the joe story...<br /><br />-mertensensehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14117301467757153800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-18206860498649841132009-09-22T22:52:21.149-05:002009-09-22T22:52:21.149-05:00Multitude of favorite lessons from this post. I wi...Multitude of favorite lessons from this post. I will choose only one.<br /><br />"Healthy conflict is a necessary part of the progress."<br /><br />True Dat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-56173722312583879192009-09-17T11:50:00.814-05:002009-09-17T11:50:00.814-05:00What an insightful post! So many things spring to...What an insightful post! So many things spring to mind... Hopefully, I'll have time to respond again in a few days, but I wanted to say for now that these are definitely issues I think about all the time. However, given the premise of your Food Food Food! class, I don't believe that you are actually incentivizing with food.<br /><br />You are providing an opportunity for engagement, to build precisely the types of relationships with food that you (and I) see as essential to developing healthy eating habits - not simply handing over an otherwise meaningless treat as a reward. I've mentioned this to you before, though offline, the idea of establishing a points-based system of rewards that provides a way for students to earn their way toward some type of special activity and thus incent positive behavior and participation. Field trips work great for this purpose and can easily involve active learning along with the consumption of healthy foods. What message does that send? That eating is a practice of sharing and learning - now that's an incentive I can get behind!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364381328515395676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-2650378575189447122009-09-13T13:32:10.246-05:002009-09-13T13:32:10.246-05:00Awesome post! I can't wait to have your blog ...Awesome post! I can't wait to have your blog be required reading for my youth. The apple seeds metaphor literally choked me up a little bit. Thanks for giving all of us a little window into your daily life - I'm loving it!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364381328515395676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-50971367985362073242009-09-07T09:24:20.953-05:002009-09-07T09:24:20.953-05:00My after-school program got free lunches this summ...My after-school program got free lunches this summer from the NY school food program, and I had to go to a similar training that covered the rules of how to administer the food, and also one at the Department of Health on food preparation (which we don't even do at my center..) and maintaining the correct temperature of foods. The latter was so interesting that I decided I wanted to be a health inspector. That is, until the actual inspectors came to check that we were following all the rules and they were nasty nasty people who almost made me cry. The most ridiculous thing was that in order to check the temperature of the pb&j sandwiches, they stuck a thermometer through the saran wrap, then threw away the sandwich AND the other uneaten contents of that bagged lunch, and then checked ANOTHER sandwich, and threw all that food away too. That meant that 2 of the 10 lunches we ordered that day went in the garbage before the kids even showed up. Fortunately, only about 5 of our 20 kids even ate the free lunch on a daily basis so we weren't short of lunches..but what if we needed all 10 lunches?? Ridiculous. Just to spite them (and because I don't like to waste food), I took all of the unopened bags of baby carrots that came in the lunches on mondays and kept them in a bag in the fridge for the rest of the week. Ha.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03789750882535608783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-17259466968464019662009-09-05T12:23:59.672-05:002009-09-05T12:23:59.672-05:00I too wonder about the stats comment, a bit of a s...I too wonder about the stats comment, a bit of a shout out to this quantitatively-minded friend perhaps?<br /><br />This blog rocks my socks off! What a great way to share your experiences and process all that there is to think/talk/write about in the world outside of the academic bubble. :-)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364381328515395676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-24142570157012193472009-08-31T20:25:08.216-05:002009-08-31T20:25:08.216-05:00God bless their little clitella..God bless their little clitella..Kristopher Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13747053796455382247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-195357055299597212009-08-31T14:38:29.367-05:002009-08-31T14:38:29.367-05:00This is really a funny moment after you step back ...This is really a funny moment after you step back and look at it. Something you will never forget. I am glad you got it all cleaned up before we decide to visit you in Austin, Tx.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11295255877816452561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-41194730457726939692009-08-30T22:34:49.784-05:002009-08-30T22:34:49.784-05:00How does Mr. Randall feel about your dislike for s...How does Mr. Randall feel about your dislike for stats?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064928459975040558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230341364643715799.post-43732220028135362602009-08-30T15:48:02.528-05:002009-08-30T15:48:02.528-05:00So I'm guessing the "five second rule&quo...So I'm guessing the "five second rule" is totally out at this point? Darn... ~ J <br /><br />(p.s. so far so good! looking forward to following along)Julia Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909859263050284097noreply@blogger.com