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No safe bets: Revamping the school lunch program
Thanks to a long-overdue overhaul by the USDA, school lunches are likely to look a lot different starting July 1. Here in Las Vegas, the Clark County School District — the nation’s fifth largest — is readying to implement new school lunch guidelines this fall. And it’s one tall order. As this well-written and insightful […]
Celebrate two years of ACA at Planned Parenthood
March 20, 2012
I’ll be a vegan for Thanksgiving: Food, memories, and grieving the loss of taste
November 23, 2011
I am someone who loves to eat. I come from Polish/German cattle farmers who made at least three kinds of meat for breakfast (I am not exaggerating). In a past life, even though I have lived with food allergies for years, it would have been nothing for me to eat an entire package of Hagen […]
Sex ed homework
October 5, 2011
This is a press release from Planned Parenthood that I thought was interesting: ** PARENTS ARE TALKING WITH THEIR KIDS ABOUT SEX BUT OFTEN NOT TACKLING HARDER ISSUES ** Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada Launches Activities Around October’s Let’s Talk Month LAS VEGAS — Eighty-two percent of parents have talked to their children about topics […]
This week’s feminist news round-up
August 18, 2011
News you can use: I am so deeply sickened by this story, which you may have heard by now, about the middle school girl who was forced to write a letter of apology to her (fellow student) rapist. And we can call him a rapist, because he was convicted of the act in a juvenile […]
Raising confident girls with healthy relationships to their bodies and their sexuality
July 12, 2011
Right after providing for her basic needs, one of the important tasks I have as the parent of a daughter is how to raise her to love herself, her body and her sexuality. How do I raise her so that she feels confident in herself and respects herself? So she knows her worth and is […]
The vegan minefield
May 16, 2011
It’s been a strange ride since I became a vegan a couple months ago, because of health reasons. It’s amazing how a change in your diet can have such a domino effect on the rest of your life! And it’s even more amazing how saying the word “vegan” can cause such a wide range of […]
The accidental vegan?
April 14, 2011
As you may have noticed, I’ve been a bit MIA lately. Actually, I’ve been quite sick lately. And it has led me down an interesting road. In fact, I’ve been struggling with a mysterious illness that has seriously compromised me on more than one occasion over the past several months. It started with postpartum nausea […]
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