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...snapshot of the choices they're making now, Time found three teens willing to let us glimpse a day in their lives, then reported back to Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition at New York University and author of What to Eat, for her opinion. There are worrisome signs in what we saw, but hopeful ones too. Teens, clearly, are aware of the epidemic of inactivity and excess calories threatening their generation and--now and then, at least--are trying to fight back...
...rose 74.6%, while the price of fats fell 26.5%.) Supermarkets, where better choices are found, are three times as common in neighborhoods that are in the highest quintile of income as they are in communities in the lowest quintile. "What good is it to tell people they need to eat fresh produce if you have to take three buses to get apples?" asks Drewnowski. And if your parents are working long hours to pay the monthly bills, he notes, "making sure you have a salad at the end of the day is not the highest priority...
...area that sell fresh produce. And with average income well below the poverty line, even Pine Ridge families who have access to the good stuff can't afford to buy it. "When you have families on a limited income, it gets difficult to make that decision to eat well," says Bonnie Holy Rock, an Oglala Sioux from Pine Ridge. Holy Rock is the field-site coordinator for Bright Start, a University of Minnesota--sponsored program to reduce child obesity and diabetes on Pine Ridge. "What do you have to eliminate to buy fresh fruit and vegetables?" she asks...
...obesogenic environment is responsible for our national weight problem, how can we fix our surroundings so we fix our health? "We have to realize that we're not going to get anywhere in getting people to eat healthy and be more physically active until we create an environment that supports that," says James Hill, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center...
...meals, many schools are still failing to make the grade. According to a report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture last year, fewer than one-third of public schools meet the recommended standard for either total or saturated fat in their meals. Here's what kids used to eat, what they still do eat and, most important, what they could eat...