Goodbye School Junk Food?

Interesting idea, I look forward to learning more about it:

A group of researchers at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., say schools can break out of their lunchtime ruts by offering students time in the garden, the kitchen and the lunchroom cafeteria.

This newly revealed road map for school cafeteria nutrition is the result of an experiment to teach a generation reared on junk food about eating healthy, where their food comes from and the environment, according to The San Francisco Chronicle. 

For the last three years, science classes at Berkeley grade schools have been taught weekly in school gardens. English, history and math courses are held regularly in the kitchen, and processed food is gone from school cafeterias. 

Everything is made from scratch.

Now, the results are in. The UC Berkeley study, "Changing Students' Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior About Food," shows that a radical program where kids garden, cook and learn about nutrition, really does work. The kids have better eating habits than their peers.  - Goodbye Junk Food? School Study Finds Teaching Good Nutrition Can Change Kids' Food Choices - by Mary Beth Sammons , Sep 29th 2010 8:00AM