Sam Kass: Want kids to learn well? Feed them well
Sam Kass: 想小朋友讀書好?餵飽佢哋先
Sam Kass's work connects nutrition and education in an effort to make sure future generations thrive. Full bio
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family of teachers.
teacher in Chicago.
after 25 years teaching fifth grade.
teaches except for me.
to get the right answers
the educational outcomes for our children?
many important questions,
is a good place to start:
and empty of nutrients?
are literally going hungry?
that we are pouring into schools,
up for success?
competition called "Chopped."
廚藝節目度做評委
with mystery ingredients
it was a very special one.
trying to break into the limelight --
nothing about --
to call "lunch ladies,"
we call "school chefs."
these women --
for thousands of kids,
with only $2.68 per lunch,
每餐預算得 2.68 美金
actually going to the food.
ingredient was quinoa.
of progress on nutrition,
in most school cafeterias.
was cooked by a woman
in Connecticut.
restaurant-quality good, except --
pretty much uncooked,
that you're supposed to do,
I don't know what quinoa is."
我唔知咩係藜麥。」
at High School in the Community,
that for many of her kids,
because she wanted to make sure
her children would eat.
stick to their ribs, she said.
to think about learning.
they tell the same story.
into the context of a child.
of the day, breakfast.
when she grows up.
that serves a nutritious breakfast
one lower in sugar and salt,
of obesity than the average kid.
of anxiety and depression.
and she'll show up on time more often.
waiting for her at school.
breakfast waiting for him?
to have repeated a grade.
who do not have consistent nourishment,
ends of the issue,
of the same coin.
almost 20 percent --
face hunger every year.
嘅細路面臨飢餓
of preventable death and disease
that we've been talking about tonight
in their lifetime.
to put together but is true
these are the same children.
and cheap calories
and that their families can afford.
or hours get cut at work,
to cover the basic cost of food.
to solve this problem, right?
we instituted a program
40 percent more low-income kids,
to every kid in that school
係來自低收入家庭嘅學校
incredibly successful,
a very difficult barrier
a nutritious breakfast.
breakfast before school,
for the poor kids.
and who needed government help.
or how little their parents make,
implemented this program
scores by 17.5 percent.
提高 17.5%
have a consistent, nutritious breakfast,
increase by 20 percent.
the nourishment they need,
director at Burke County
佐治亞州韋恩斯伯勒
is one of the poorest districts
live at or below the poverty line.
喺貧困線以下
of the new standards that were coming,
fruit and vegetables and whole grains.
to all of her kids.
dinner when they went home.
from an unexpected place.
for the Burke County Bears.
mediocre teams for years.
in the middle of the pack --
of the most passionate football states
the state championship,
to Donna Martin.
the basic nourishment,
to the Cheryl Barbaras
is just the starting point.
issues that we face.
of properly nourishing ourselves,
that is more stable and secure;
our economic productivity;
for generations to come.
where our collective efforts
What is the right question?
more sustainably grown food?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sam Kass - Food entrepreneurSam Kass's work connects nutrition and education in an effort to make sure future generations thrive.
Why you should listen
Food entrepreneur Sam Kass is a former White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition. He is the founder of TROVE and a partner in Acre Venture Partners.
Kass joined the White House kitchen staff in 2009 as Assistant Chef and, in 2010, became Food Initiative Coordinator. During his White House tenure, he took on several additional roles including Executive Director of First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let’s Move!" campaign and senior White House Policy Advisor for Nutrition. Kass is the first person in the history of the White House to have a position in the Executive Office of the President and the Residence. As one of the First Lady’s longest-serving advisors, he served as Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives and he helped the First Lady create the first major vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden.
In 2011, Fast Company included Sam in their list of "100 Most Creative People," and in 2012, he helped create the American Chef Corps, which is dedicated to promoting diplomacy through culinary initiatives. He is also an MIT Media lab fellow, entrepreneur and advisor.
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