Food for Thought

Like clockwork, diet books appear on the bookstore displays at the beginning of the New Year. Losing weight is the most common resolution made and broken every year. Recently I read the best advice on eating: Eat food. That seems obvious, but Michael Pollan, the author of In Defense of Food, clarifies with his great grandmother rule: Don’t eat anything that your great grandmother would not recognize as food. Read More!

Ends April 5, 2010.

LPB has launched the PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest, a national competition designed to promote the advancement of children’s reading skills through hands-on, active learning. The effort encourages children in grades K-3 in Louisiana and communities across the country, to celebrate the power of creating stories and illustrations by submitting their own original stories and illustrations. Local Information Here.

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Loss of Louisiana’s wetlands means more than loss of land. People, homes, communities, cultures, industries—a way of life is endangered. Review the Louisiana Public Broadcasting electronic field trip to explore the losses incurred as our wetlands dissolve. Discover what is being done and what you can do to curb the losses.

PBS KIDS Raising Readers is a national literacy campaign, and part of the Ready To Learn initiative, focused on building reading skills at home, at school, in child care, and in the community. Go to lpb.org/read.