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Health Highlights
Data Visualization
Calculating the Cost: A look into your child's school meal
Data Visualization
Calculating the Cost: A look into your child's school meal
As a parent, you want what is best for your child, and that means providing them with healthy foods. However, at school kids decide on their own what to eat. Where does your middle school student's lunch money go? View the interactive to find out the cost of your child's school meal options under the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) nutritional guidelines.
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School Food Success Stories
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School Food Success Stories
Find out how schools in Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi and Wisconsin are providing healthier meal options for students.
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What's Your Antibiotics IQ?
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What's Your Antibiotics IQ?
Thousands of Americans die each year from infections, and many of those deaths are associated with bacteria that are resistant to treatment by one or more of these drugs. Test your knowledge of antibiotics.
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Dispatch From Denmark
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Dispatch From Denmark
Pew's Laura Rogers recently visited Denmark and met with farmers, government officials and public health experts to learn how the United States can adapt the country’s successful model.
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Report
Out of Balance: A Look at Snack Foods in Secondary Schools across the States
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Out of Balance: A Look at Snack Foods in Secondary Schools across the States
How healthy are the snack foods sold in secondary schools via vending machines, school stores and snack bars? A recent report on unhealthy snack foods published by the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project suggests the issue could be more than bite-sized.
Data Visualization
Infographic: Sizing Up Snack Foods
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Infographic: Sizing Up Snack Foods
Research indicates that the majority of snack foods and beverages sold in schools are high in calories, fat and sugar. View the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods infographic, comparing snack foods currently available to students with healthier options.
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Opinion
Recent NIH Report Highlights Need For New Antibiotics
Opinion
Recent NIH Report Highlights Need For New Antibiotics
Could new antibiotics prevent future superbug outbreaks? Find out in this Q&A with Nicole Mahoney of the Antibiotics and Innovation Project.
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In the News
Superbugs and Public Health
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Superbugs and Public Health
Recent research on antibiotics, including a study that found harmless bacteria in the soil can cause disease in humans once they’ve traded genes with other, more dangerous types of drug-resistant bacteria.
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SuperChefs Against Superbugs
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SuperChefs Against Superbugs
More than a dozen chefs from across the country gathered at the James Beard Award-nominated Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee, in July 2012 for the James Beard Foundation's first Chefs Boot Camp for Policy & Change. The pilot program, made possible with financial and programming support from the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, was designed to provide chefs with tools to advocate for food-system change.
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