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CNN Reports: New Flavored Milk Products Making a Nutritional Impact in Schools
CNN’s “Sanjay Gupta, MD” recently investigated how milk consumption dropped – close to 75 percent in high school alone – when flavored milk was removed from in Cabell Co., WV schools. Now, a new product that has fewer calories and sugar is meeting students’ taste preferences and USDA’s final rule on school meals. Learn more about West Virginia’s new and improved flavored milk,view the segment and check out NDC’s Flavored Milk Education Kit.
Fuel Up to Play Program Advisor Named Let’s Move! Champion of Change
Fuel Up to Play 60 is making remarkable strides in helping to achieve real, sustainable change in the school environment. The way student leaders, Program Advisors and school stakeholders are bringing this change to life on the ground level is remarkable, and has received extensive recognition. For example, Program Advisor Cindy Coughlin of Springfield, Massachusetts was recently selected out of 600 applicants as a Let’s Move! Champion of Change, an award given to individuals who are inspiring and empowering America’s youth to lead active, healthy lifestyles.
Fuel Up to Play 60 Recognized in Huffington Post, Fox News Live
Back to School, Back to Football Challenge winner Chase Glissendorf invested hard work and energy into Fuel Up to Play 60, which is why Linda Novick O’Keefe, founding Executive Director of Common Threads, chose to highlight his story with her readers. She sat down with Jean H. Ragalie, R.D., President of National Dairy Council, to learn more about the program. Check out the interview on the Huffington Post and also watch Ragalie discuss the successes of Fuel Up to Play 60 on live.foxnews.com.