Vegetarian Star

On a recent episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, Jamie Oliver is peeved whenever the pink milk he thought he sent packing from the school cafeteria in the town where he’s trying to change people’s eating habits showed up only days later.

Just like Jamie found out french fries count wonderfully as a vegetable, he learned pink milk, despite the sugar content, makes a good source of calcium according to USDA standards.

“Clever! I never thought that if you put sugar in everything they’d eat it more!” Jamie said.

If we only had more Jamies to challenge the dairy milk requirement in schools across the country, our students would be in better shape.

According to Healthy School Lunches, flavored milks such as strawberry or chocolate, may contain as much or more sugar than soda.

Not to mention the numerous studies that have linked cow’s milk to health ailments like constipation, obesity, anemia, ear infections, respiratory issues and cancer.

Pink milk will definitely not turn boys into strong men.

And to think it was soy milk and male boobs people were worried about.

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Taking a break from traditional celebrity gossip to bring some equally star worthy news!

Today is School Lunch Call-In Day, sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

The day is meant to let your representative know you support the HR 4870 Healthy School Meals Act and they should too!

The Act will allow school districts across the United States to incorporate more plant based meals in the menus, as well as offer non dairy beverages as a standard rather than an exception.

It’s pretty simple to let the rep in your state know you want vegetarian lunches at schools.

1. Learn about the bill if you haven’t already.
2. Locate your representative.
3. If you’re at a loss of words, here are some important points to bring up when you call.

The meat and potatoes offering in school lunches is about as old as this black and white photo.

Just because you were forced to eat cheesesticks and salads every day instead of meatloaf doesn’t mean other children have to.

Contact your rep and voice your support today!

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Actor James Cromwell and NBA legend John Salley will speak to high school students on the benefits of a vegetarian diet after they watch the movie Avatar.

On Thursday, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Avatar director and writer James Cameron will take 5,000 students from Los Angeles schools to the Nokia Theatre where they will watch the movie and discuss its environmental themes, according to Look to the Stars.

Afterwards, Cromwell and Salley will discuss how to preserve the earth by following a vegetarian diet.

The event is part of the Eco Warrior training and competition where high school students give speeches with the theme of “An Environmental Lesson I Learned From Avatar and How to Apply it in My Community.”

Scholarships totaling $12,000 will be awarded and the winners will be announced during Cromwell and Salley’s visit.

Meeting three celebrities in one day, plus the chance to receive money for college?

Now that’s what you call a field trip!

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Like Vegetarian Star suggested when Jamie Oliver‘s kids couldn’t recognize a tomato, Ellie Krieger recommends emphasizes adding colors to the plate to get kids to eat more fruits and vegetables.

While promoting produce with Michelle Obama at the White House, “I got kids to try every color of the rainbow. I like making it about color instead of telling children to eat vegetables,” she told Express Night Out.

The Food Network Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger chef and registered dietitian testified at Congress recently about hunger and obesity and the $1 organic apple dilemma.

“I bought an organic apple the other day and it was almost $1. If I were really hungry, I might be buying that $1 meal instead,” Krieger said.

Like the $1 value meal and Fast Food Giant X consisting of a factory farmed produced meat patty?

Krieger, who says she’d be happy if “everyone cooked with whole grains, and lots of fruits and vegetables,” demonstrates her vegetable marketing techniques on her own 7 year old daughter and they frequently make  trips to the farmers market.

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Jillian Michaels may scream, berate and boss people around on NBC’s The Biggest Loser, but she insists that’s not the way you should treat your kids if you’re trying to get them in shape.

“The Biggest Loser is about life-or-death confrontations. Last ditch attempts to get people back on track. Kids need positive reinforcement only,” Jillian explained to Parent Dish.

Getting kids involved with physical activities can be combined with nutrition, such as planting and growing your own vegetables in a backyard garden, suggests the pescatarian.

“Teach them about healthy goods to help them become a healthy grownup. Don’t make it about pounds or calorie counting. Involve them in the food. Let them start a little vegetable garden so they are invested. Challenge them to find fruits and veggies in their favorite colors and so on. This helps to keep health fun and make them feel in control of their choices.”

We can totally see the garden thing as a competitive, but positive experience for kids.

Team blue gets the green beans. Team red gets tomatoes.

Who can harvest more at the end of the season?

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Nicole Richie didn’t have a lot of rules growing up as a child, but she wants her household ran differently.

Most of Richie’s rules for daughter Harlow are about keeping her healthy, though.

According to Celebrity Baby Scoop, a friend told Life and Style, “Nicole is obsessed with doing everything she can to try to keep her children healthy and safe.”

One big rule is that the family eat organic.

From Celebrity Baby Scoop:

“The former Simple Life star even grows her own veggies in her garden to prepare salads and stir-fries for vegetarian fiancé, Joel Madden.”

For items she doesn’t grow in her backyard, Richie probably refers to resources like the Top Foods to Buy Organic, before shopping.

Is there any chance of Richie making a rule about eating totally vegetarian in the household?

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First Lady Michelle Obama invited students from a Baltimore school to join her at the White House for a discussion on healthy eating.

Hampstead Hill Academy 4th-8th graders are already ahead of the game, as they’re growing their own produce in a garden set aside in the schoolyard.

“Learning doesn’t stop at lunchtime,” Mrs. Obama said to a student who asked how schools can teach children better eating habits, but added that “The cafeteria is one of the most important classrooms in the school.”

One of the most important classrooms in schools may still not receive enough funding, even after changes to the Childhood Nutrition Act take place.

Marion Nestle, professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and author of Food Politics, Safe Food, What to Eat and Pet Food Politics told The Atlantic that although the $4.5 billion allocated over 10 years for school meals is a 10-fold increase over previous funding in 2004, it only averages to a mere six cents more per meal.

One the plus side, the bill does provide mandatory money for schools to establish gardens like Hampstead Hill Academy does and buy food from local sources.

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Sesame Street keeps up with the times, and although a children’s television show, isn’t afraid to touch on the dark side of things, such as war and parents being deployed through the military.

The issue of childhood obesity is a dark war, and Cookie Monster has stepped up to the plate of responsibility by eating more nutritious snacks like apples and kale.

“We are doing a lot of work on what we call Healthy Habits for Life, which focuses on simple messages like ‘sometimes foods,’ ” said Gary Knell, president and CEO of Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind the show, to Alibi. “It’s a tool to try to promote healthier eating. So a mom in Albuquerque can tell her kid, Look, even the Cookie Monster can’t eat cookies all the time.”

A cooking eating in moderation Cookie Monster is a good start, considering there are so many other programs aimed at children that are constantly displaying ads for less than nutritional food.

One study done with three television networks, PBS, Disney, and Nickelodeon, found in 130 food-related ads in about 100 hours of preschool programming, more than half were geared towards school children and most promoted sugary cereals and fast food.

But make no mistake he’s still not Veggie Monster. Nor is he Yoga Monster either.

” ‘Saturday Night Live’ accused us of making him the Pilates Monster,” Knell said.

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