#Nutrition-education

A report, Science Education in an Age of Misinformation, from Stanford University and written by a distinguished group of scientists addresses a question I get asked all the time: how do you know whom to trust when reading articles about food and nutrition. It presents a decision tree for

I was astounded to learn that the USDA spends more than $900 million a year on nutrition education since I can hardly recall seeing any of it. But now we have a Government Accountability Office (GAO) analysis of USDA’s expenditures on nutrition education. The GAO says that USDA does not:

Vanessa Domine.  Healthy Teens, Healthy Schools: How Media Literacy Can Renew Education in the United States.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Here’s my blurb: If you are not concerned about the effects of exposure to electronic media on the health of teenagers, you should be.   This book