First lady Michelle Obama and the USDA's Tom Vilsack announced a list of new nutrition standards for public school meals earlier this week with major health upgrades for the nation's children, earning applause from consumer health organizations and advocacy groups.

McDonald’s is set to launch a new ad campaign in January that features four of the restaurant’s beef and produce suppliers attesting to the quality of their ingredients.

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Don't ever say that clowns aren't clever. After San Francisco passed a ban aimed to prevent McDonald's and other fast-food chains from giving toys away with kids' meals that do not meet the city's nutritional standards, the chain has simply started charging a nominal fee for them instead.

After daytime talk show host Dr. Oz caused what some experts claimed was an unjustified panic over arsenic levels found in apple juice earlier this year, new research supports the TV show host's concerns, prompting the FDA to take a closer look at regulating allowable levels of arsenic in food and beverages.

After the recent declaration by members of Congress that pizza served throughout the nation's school lunch programs should be considered a vegetable (because of the negligible amount of tomato paste in pizza sauce) despite efforts of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act also passed by Congress last year requiring schools to provide more fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains, California schools continue to lead the nation in focusing on the health of children by providing exceptionally clean food for students and not including pizza on the list of vegetables.

Australian researchers at Adelaide University have created hope for women suffering from infertility as a recent study sheds new light on effectively treating women suffering from infertility issues with Traditional Chinese Medicine. The research, titled "Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine in the management of female infertility: A systematic review" concluded that using TCM methods improved pregnancy rates as much as 2-fold in just a 4-month period in comparison with Western Medical fertility enhancement drug therapies.

The newest version of a proposed Congressional spending bill will classify pizza and French fries served as part of school lunches as vegetables, reports the Associated Press.

Students attending Chicago, Illinois public schools will be among the nation's first large metropolitan area to be served school meals containing local chicken raised without the use of antibiotics.

A new study published in the recent issue of the journal Pediatrics concluded that girls exposed to BPA (bisphenol-A) while in utero showed a greater risk of exhibiting behaviors including hyperactivity, anxiousness, aggressiveness and depression than boys.

After a year of anonymously documenting her daily consumption of school lunches in a blog, Chicago public school speech pathologist Sarah Wu, 34, has revealed her identity and a new book, Fed Up With Lunch.