"Fuel your body...Delight your senses"
Stephanie Brina-Herres, MS, RD, CDN
- Mar
3
2015
Lifestyle matters! This year’s National Nutrition Month® (NNM) is “BITE INTO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE ” with the spotlight on YOU!
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is encouraging you to review your own lifestyle. Consider what might work best for YOU to promote your overall health and well-being. (Note that all images in this blog post are the property of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and only displayed in honor of the Academy’s celebration of National Nutrition Month® and National Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day).
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9
2013
As part of former First Lady Michelle Obama’s signature “Let’s Move” initiative to end childhood obesity in America, on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 the second annual White House “Kids’ State Dinner” as a formal luncheon was scheduled to celebrate the winners of the 2013 Healthy Lunchtime Challenge.(2017 UPDATE NOTICE: Unfortunately, the Let’s Move website is no longer active since Michelle Obama is no longer the current First Lady.
You may find that previous availability of recipes and information from the Let’s Move program may have been scrubbed from other government related websites as well.)
Selected healthy focus recipes were featured at the luncheon. (Image of Kids’ State Dinner graphic property of Let’s Move and shown for identification purposes only).
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- Jun
17
2013
Plans were underway for the year 2013 (2nd annual) Kids’ State Dinner aka celebration of the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge promoted by Let’s Move.(2017 UPDATE NOTICE: Unfortunately, the Let’s Move website is no longer active since Michelle Obama is no longer the current First Lady.
You may find that previous availability of recipes and information from the Let’s Move program may have been scrubbed from other government related websites as well.)
Winners of the recipe contest were announced around late June 2013, although winners in some cases received some local celebrity in their home town locations in advance of the announcement.
(2012 Kids’ State Dinner Official White House photo by Sonya N. Hebert)
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- Apr
26
2013
In the first blog post in this two-part series, we mentioned that Dr. Michel Poulain, a Belgian demographer researching longevity, along with Dr. Gianni Pes, a medical statistician tied to the University of Sassari, Italy, coined the name Blue Zone.
Why choose the name Blue Zone you ask?
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- Mar
9
2013
It’s March once again and National Nutrition Month (NNM) is here!National Nutrition Month helps remind us of the unmistakable link between food, nutrition and health. You can find out more by visiting this year’s NNM site.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of National Nutrition Month, we’d like to share 10 categories of tips with you.
Won’t you join us in making this the best celebration ever of NNM?!
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- Sep
11
2012
Do you remember hearing or reading about the First Ever White House Kids State Dinner (actually a luncheon) served on August 20, 2012?A blog post of that date focused on the event since we feel the entire Let’s Move campaign being supported by First Lady, Michelle Obama, is such a great idea!
The entire Healthy Lunchtime Challenge culminating in that White House Kids State Dinner event was a collaborative effort involving a number of partners.
It involved a wide range of staff, including from the Let’s Move campaign, the White House, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Education, and Epicurious Magazine.
(Image of organic curly kale courtesy of Ayla87 over at rgbstock.com)
The “appetizer” for the actual White House luncheon event was a super simple Kale Chips recipe originally submitted by one of the 54 winning junior chefs, Samuel Wohabe, age 9, from the state of New York.
Kale Chips could prove to be a great anytime snack, so since this is back-to-school time and cooler weather is either in your area or might be coming to it, we thought this would be a great time to mention about various kale chip recipes that can be found all over the world wide web.
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- Aug
20
2012
Looking for some real food recipe ideas that kids can enjoy preparing with the family in the kitchen?Here are some suggestions from totally free, “kid friendly” eCookbooks you can easily view or download from the www.
Enjoy!
(Image of cover of “Fuel Up to Play 60 Beyond PB&J: Cooking with Kids” shown for identification purposes only)
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- Aug
20
2012
(2017 UPDATE NOTICE: Unfortunately, the Let’s Move website is no longer active since Michelle Obama is no longer the current First Lady.
You may find that previous availability of recipes and information from the Let’s Move program may have been scrubbed from other government related websites as well.)
As part of Michelle Obama’s signature “Let’s Move” campaign to end childhood obesity in America, on Monday, August 20, 2012 the first ever Kids’ “State Dinner” as a formal luncheon is scheduled to celebrate the winners of the 2012 Healthy Lunchtime Challenge. Selected healthy focus recipes were featured at the luncheon. (Image of invitation to the 2012 Healthy Lunchtime Challenge shown for identification purposes only).
A total of 54 winning budding chefs and one of their guardians / parents were invited to this special formal luncheon dining event. According to a video on the letsmove.gov website and various newspaper stories run on the winners, over ~ 1200 recipes were submitted from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 3 US territories: Northern Mariana Islands; Puerto Rico; and the Virgin Islands (but there could only be one winner from each of those locations).
Winners (a US legal resident child between the ages of 8-12) and one US legal resident guardian/parent became eligible for round trip flights to Washington DC and hotel accommodations so that they could attend the August 20th formal luncheon being broadcast live starting at 10 AM from the White House in Washington, DC. In a number of cases, it is reported that a second parent may choose to pay their own way to the special occasion since it is so meaningful to the families of the winning junior chefs.
It has also been reported that the children will receive a special “tour of the White House vegetable garden” with one of the Obama’s chefs as well as participate in a “behind-the-scenes tour of the Julia Child exhibit at the Smithsonian” before it becomes available to the general public.
Read on for some additional details about the contest and the recipes chosen.
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