The Healthiest Meals in America Come From Schools Apr 20, 2021 It’s important to eat your fruits and vegetables. Photography by Maria Sbytova/Shutterstock
Nearly 30 million American children get free or reduced-price meals.
Those meals, according to the USDA, cost just over $14 billion per year. That comes out to billions of meals served, at a variable but typically quite low cost to taxpayers. And a new study from researchers at Tufts University shows that may be money very well spent.
The study looked at the diets of Americans from 2003 to 2018 and found that school meals are the healthiest source of food. Researchers analyzed food from four sources: restaurants, grocery stores, schools and “other,” which includes stuff like entertainment venues and food trucks. They rated healthfulness by using two metrics: the American Health Association diet score and the Healthy Eating Index. (The latter i
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Just Half of Long-Term Caretakers Are Vaccinated Against COVID
Marie Branham, resident director at Atria Springdale in Louisville, Kentucky, receives a COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 21. She was one of the first staff members at the long-term care facility to be vaccinated.
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FORT WORTH, Texas When Alice Hakata first heard her colleagues at the Midlothian Healthcare Center debating whether they were going to take a COVID-19 vaccine, she remembers joking with them, “Well, that just makes the line in front of me shorter.”
The 59-year-old physical therapist got her first shot in late January at a mass vaccination site in Fort Worth. As she waited for her second dose, she continued hearing staff members at the skilled nursing facility, located 25 miles south of Dallas, sharing their fears about the vaccines.
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Up to Half of New Diabetes Cases in U.S. Are Linked to Obesity, Study Finds
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New research released Wednesday underscores the role of obesity in type 2 diabetes. It suggests that obesity plays a major factor in up to half of new diabetes cases that occur annually in the U.S.