Entrepreneurs Tackle Childhood Obesity With 10000 Healthy ...

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According to data from Propeller: A Force for Innovation, 36 percent of 10- to 17-year-olds are overweight, with low-income and minority children being affected the most. They, along with partners Revolution Foods and KIPP New Orleans Schools, have launched School Food Authority (SFA) in an effort to fight childhood obesity in the area and, hopefully, create a model that can be implemented beyond the region.

The program, which is led by Propeller social entrepreneur James Graham, will be delivering more than 10,000 healthy school lunches per day to students at 28 New Orleans and Baton Rouge public schools beginning this school year.

The lunches comply with a set of healthy food standards set by Popeller, meaning that none of the items is fried, and contains no high-fructose corn syrup, canned fruits or vegetables, or nitrates or hormones in meat. Everything is prepared from scratch and contains a fresh fruit and vegetable with each meal. In addition, 5 percent of the food must be locally procured. The 28 participating charter schools and the four participating food vendors have contractually committed to conform to these standards.

Healthy food vendor Revolution Foods was recruited to New Orleans, and Propeller provided the seed funding necessary to launch the KIPP New Orleans Schools healthy lunch initiative. Propeller is providing more than $190,000 in grant funding for schools to transition to a healthy food vendor through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Foundation, and Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools.

?One of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation?s (WKKF) core beliefs is that all people ? particularly vulnerable children ? deserve access to good food,? said William Buster, program officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a key supporter of Propeller. ?Schools are public tables from which 30 million children eat up to two-thirds of their meals. Improving the nutritional quality of the food we serve our children at school directly impacts their health and well-being and that?s why we are supporting this very important work.?

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