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Jul 3, 2013	New Standards for School Vending Machines Provide More Than Just Healthy Snacks While it might take time before we can evaluate the impact of the new standards, which won’t take effect until September 2014, we can look at what we already know to assess them in comparison to the current status quo. The first hint of the new regulation’s potential comes from the Pew Charitable Trusts Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project, showing that children and teens gained less weight over three years if they lived in a state with strong policies on school snacks than if they lived in a state without such standards. More Source: Triple Pundit	School Food
Jul 6, 2013	''New regulations promote healthier snack foods in schools'' Jessica Donze Black speaks with Online Athens about the USDA's decision to set nutrition standards on school snack foods and beverages. More Source: Online Athens	School Food
Jul 9, 2013	''Already Feeling the Heat'' "The legislation requiring public disclosure of the financial relationships between healthcare vendors and physicians has been widely discussed in policy circles for years. Critics claimed payments for speaking, consulting, research or even the small trinkets and meals delivered during routine sales calls unduly influenced physician choices and inflated healthcare costs. To combat those effects, Congress required public reporting of those payments in a publicly accessible database. The legislation, labeled the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, was included in the 2010 healthcare reform law." More Source: ModernHealthcare.com	Conflicts of Interest

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Jul 3, 2013

New Standards for School Vending Machines Provide More Than Just Healthy Snacks

While it might take time before we can evaluate the impact of the new standards, which won’t take effect until September 2014, we can look at what we already know to assess them in comparison to the current status quo. The first hint of the new regulation’s potential comes from the Pew Charitable Trusts Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project, showing that children and teens gained less weight over three years if they lived in a state with strong policies on school snacks than if they lived in a state without such standards.

Source: Triple Pundit

School Food

Jul 6, 2013

''New regulations promote healthier snack foods in schools''

Jessica Donze Black speaks with Online Athens about the USDA's decision to set nutrition standards on school snack foods and beverages.

Source: Online Athens

School Food

Jul 9, 2013

''Already Feeling the Heat''

"The legislation requiring public disclosure of the financial relationships between healthcare vendors and physicians has been widely discussed in policy circles for years. Critics claimed payments for speaking, consulting, research or even the small trinkets and meals delivered during routine sales calls unduly influenced physician choices and inflated healthcare costs. To combat those effects, Congress required public reporting of those payments in a publicly accessible database. The legislation, labeled the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, was included in the 2010 healthcare reform law."

Source: ModernHealthcare.com

Conflicts of Interest