Childhood Obesity: Taking Action

Childhood Obesity: Taking Action

Tweet Dr. Susan Rubin, founder, Better School Food One of the most active, visible and successful advocates working to improve children’s eating habits is Dr. Susan Rubin, founder of Better School Food. Rubin, a dentist and mother of three, has helped spearhead...

Effort to Limit Junk Food in Schools Faces Hurdles

Tweet Federal lawmakers are considering the broadest effort ever to limit what children eat: a national ban on selling candy, sugary soda and salty, fatty food in school snack bars, vending machines and à la carte cafeteria lines. Whether the measure, an amendment to...

Two Mothers, a Camera and a Look at School Lunch

Tweet IN her quest to improve the quality of food in America’s public schools, Susan P. Rubin has tried several tactics. She has emptied a bag of vending machine items onto a principal’s desk; she has delivered impassioned testimony to members of the Institute of...