Earth Eats: Real Food, Green Living
The new research lends empirical support to state-mandated fruit and veggie minimums.
Michelle Obama hits the road this week to promote the third birthday of Let's Move!, her initiative that aims to eliminate childhood obesity.
In hopes encouraging healthier eating habits among the nation's youth, the USDA has proposed a new set of guidelines for food sold in schools.
On the menu today are two traditional Christmas Eve foods: tamales and oyster stew. Bob Adkins uses his chef chops to make healthy and delicious meals for kids.
The USDA has decided to allow more meat and grains in school lunches after outcry by school administrators.
It's been a long week for "lean finely textured beef."
Kids don't like greens? Just don't tell them your recipe.
Two recipes for a healthy breakfast using grapefruit and oats, Mimi Ito documents what her kids eat for lunch, and cultivating truffles like any other crop.
How do you get a kid to eat more veggies? Don't tell them, show them.
First Lady Michelle Obama announced the first major changes to the national school lunch program in 15 years from an elementary school in Virginia.
Beef Products, Inc. discovered injecting waste meat with ammonia killed dangerous germs, making it safe to eat. That made it an economical option for fast food.
You can lead the students to healthy food, but you can't make them eat.
Didi Emmons fell in love with cooking when she was 12 years old. She now spends most of her culinary time teaching the next generation to love it, too.
Mimi Ito says lunch is the best time to introduce kids to new foods. After eight years of documenting their lunches, she now considers her kids to be foodies.
In another blow to increase the healthiness of school lunches, pizza sauce is considered a vegetable.
The FDA investigated a Washington fruit processing plant after nine schoolchildren became sick eating their applesauce in school lunch.
In a blow to combating obesity, the Senate decided all vegetables on school lunches were safe, including potatoes (fried and otherwise).
After anonymously blogging about her experiences eating school lunch for a year, Chicago Public Schools teacher Sarah Wu has now revealed her identity.
Nearly one in three households categorized as "food insecure" had to cut back or alter their eating habits for lack of food.
We see what one college student eats for lunch, we take a peak at a course about food and politics and we make two dishes any cash-strapped student would love.
Annie Corrigan is the producer of Earth Eats, and an announcer and producer at WFIU Public Radio. Learn more »
Daniel Orr is a professional chef, restaurateur, blogger, and author of a number of cookbooks. Learn more »
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