Eat Your Radio

Why Calories Count//The Goldlab Symposium

July 29, 2010 by Shelley Schlender

This show broadcast on the KGNU Science Show. To hear the interviews, LISTEN to this show. SUMMARY: Why Calories Count (start time 7:10). More than a billion people in the world suffer from too few of them. About the same number suffer from too many. We’re talking about calories. They’re vital to human health, indeed our … Read more

Fermicutes – Make you Fat?

July 29, 2010 by Shelley Schlender

If you think the microbial world ends with yeast, or e-coli, it’s time to meet the bacterodites and the fermicutes. These are huge families of microbes that are next to impossible to culture in a lab. Thanks to super-fast gene “typing” methods, today we know that these bacteria can live in huge quantities in our … Read more

Student chefs cook up healthy lunches

July 22, 2010 by Shelley Schlender

http://www.voanews.com/content/student-chefs-cook-up-healthy-lunches-94256594/161937.html

Veggies vs Hot Cheetos

June 7, 2010 by Shelley Schlender

LISTEN (3 Minutes) ROCK – Go, go power Rangers! Go, Go, Rock-a-Rock Rock. My name is Rock. I’m a fifth grader and it’s nice to be a fifth grader. Very fun, too. MARIA – My name is Maria. It’s really fun being a fifth grader, especially being in the Eat Your Radio Project. Veggies Veggies … Read more

Cavities and Candy

June 3, 2010 by Shelley Schlender

Ashley Denver Ishmael1 — Ishmael doesn’t want cavities

Ja’Kyra: When Ms. Coburn was little, she ate so much candy all her teeth fell out, and she had to buy some teeth . . .

Ismael: It’s hard because I don’t want to leave candy!

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Dear Dr. Carrot

May 24, 2010 by Dr. Carrot

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Ashley Students talk about Dr. Carrot . . .

. . . and Dr. Carrot’s representative, Miss Max, talks with Ashley students, staff and teachers!

Invent a Salsa!

April 4, 2010 by Shelley Schlender

Ashley Elementary 5th grade class have fun with their teachers making salsa . . . and trying it, too! Recipe: Invent-a-Salsa: Tomato Salsa INGREDIENTS: 4 tomatoes cut into 2 pieces 1 Anaheim chili pepper cut into 4 pieces 1 bell pepper cut into 2 pieces 1 small red onion cut into 4 small pieces (1/12 … Read more

Call-in – Champions of school nutrition

May 13, 2015February 25, 2010 by Shelley Schlender

LISTEN (1 hour) Chef Ann Cooper, Boulder Valley Schools Director of Food Services, Max Young, Integrated Nutrition Education Program representative and spokesperson for Dr. Carrot, and Leo Lesch, Denver Public Schools Director of Food Services. Also on air are Ashley Elementary School 5th grade teachers, Holli Coburn and Robby Herd, who conduct hands-on … Read more

Kids Share Ideas for Healthier Foods

May 13, 2015December 23, 2009 by sarah hughes

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KGNU has spent the last few months working on a special nutrition project with 5th graders at Ashley Elementary School in Denver. Along the way, we’ve had a lot of conversations with these young people about eating healthy– and the CHALLENGES to eating healthy.

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Denver CBS4 Features Eat Your Radio

May 13, 2015December 20, 2009 by Shelley Schlender

Here is a summary of the DENVER (CBS4) story about EatYourRadio. ― Most of us would probably squirm if someone walked up with a microphone and wanted to talk to us about our diet. But at a Denver elementary school, some young reporters are doing just that! The project is called “Eat Your Radio.” KGNU radio … Read more