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LiveWell’s School Food Initiative: Q & A with Program Director Gabriella Warner

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LiveWell’s School Food Initiative (SFI) partners with Food & Nutrition Service Departments to serve up freshly prepared meals to students across the state. The Initiative began in 2010 and has continued to grow and evolve into an impactful program reaching well over half of Colorado’s 178 school districts. Gabriella Warner, MS, RD, joined LiveWell as […]

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It’s No Bologna: Evaluating Healthy School Lunches

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By Dan Schober, Program Evaluator & Founder at Informed Community Health Editor’s note: This post was originally published on LinkedIn. “I waited…in anticipation…”please get this” I hoped, as the students worked…” Across the country, schools are addressing childhood obesity by cooking more from scratch to improve the healthfulness of foods served in their cafeterias, with

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School Food Initiative Spotlight: East Grand School District

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School Food Initiative Spotlight: East Grand School District By Chef Chris Hazle East Grand School District is up to big things these days. With enrollment numbers rising, so are the demands on the Food & Nutrition Service Department to provide nourishing and healthful meals to the growing student population.  Fortunately, two years ago, the department was

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School Lunch as a Teaching Tool

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School Lunch as a Teaching Tool Promoting your salad bar through fun events and more By Chef Dina Paz LiveWell’s School Food Initiative (SFI) believes that school lunch deserves more than a heat-and-serve buffet. Move over chicken nuggets! Because we know education doesn’t stop at the front doors of the cafeteria, the SFI places great

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Making the ‘Healthy Choice the Easy Choice’ Isn’t Always Easy

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Making the ‘Healthy Choice the Easy Choice’ Isn’t Always Easy  Tackling access & inequity in a complex food environment By Wendy Peters Moschetti, Director of Food Systems, LiveWell Colorado We believe access to nutritious food is a basic human right here at LiveWell Colorado, which is why we aim to help create fair, equitable, health-promoting

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LiveWell Colorado Supports Proposed Boulder Soda Tax

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LiveWell Colorado Supports Proposed Boulder Soda Tax World Health Organization Urges Action that Hits Close to Home By Wendy Peters Moschetti, Director of Food Systems at LiveWell Colorado Colorado’s great quality of life attracts healthy, educated adults yet we have struggled to provide that same healthy environment for the children born and raised here. In

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Coloradans Coming Together to Say No More 24

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Coloradans Coming Together to Say “No More 24” By Sarah Kurz, Vice President of Policy & Communications, LiveWell Colorado  Colorado has the lowest adult obesity rate in the nation[1] according to a recent report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. But while Colorado as a whole is fairly healthy, the story is starkly different for Colorado kids.

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Standing Up for a Healthy School Environment: Soda in Schools

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Standing Up for a Healthy School Environment By Leslie Levine, MPH, LiveWell Colorado Technical Assistance and Research Manager Today’s obesity crisis is a complex issue that cannot be solved overnight and requires a multi-pronged approach. One of those approaches is to look at our schools as health-promoting environments. For the past seven years, Colorado has

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Farm to School Month

Celebrate National Farm to School Month in October

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Celebrate National Farm to School Month in October By Charles Severance-Medaris, Policy & Communications Coordinator, LiveWell Colorado “That’s a zucchini,” remarked a third-grade girl while grabbing for the basket of fruits and veggies waiting for her as she sat down for lunch. Picking up the oblong veggie, she winced, “No wait, this one is a cucumber, that one

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LiveWell School Food Initiative: Thompson School District Trainings

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LiveWell School Food Initiative: Thompson School District Trainings By Janessa Nelsen, Program Coordinator, LiveWell School Food Initiative Thompson School District – the 17th largest district in Colorado with over 16,000 students enrolled – held a two-day training on August 15 and 16 to kick off its partnership with the LiveWell School Food Initiative. Day one provided

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