Tag: Public Health

School Breakfast Programs: Nourishment or Surveillance?

School Breakfast Programs: Nourishment or Surveillance?

In classrooms across America, lunchtime trays reflect more than dietary guidelines — they reflect institutional power. Public health initiatives in schools, framed as educational interventions, often serve as tools for surveillance and behavior conditioning under the guise of wellness. Federal policies like the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act” position nutrition as a moral imperative, championing low-fat […]

Restaurants Ditching Seed Oils

Make America Healthy Again – a slogan that has been pushed by Robert F Kennedy Jr. to correct public health. One of his recent changes has been rallying against seed oils, which includes canola, soybean and corn oils. The health secretary considers them harmful and detrimental – but without any scientific evidence to support that […]

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