K-12 Digital Menu Boards with Nutritional Labeling - Childhood Obesity Task Force Recommendations

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(Free-Press-Release.com) May 17, 2010 -- Woodland Hills, CA, May 17, 2010 -- Green Edge Systems, a leader in technology solutions for K-12 school food services presents the Epicure Digital K-12 Digital Menu Board System with Nutritional Labeling to support the recently published recommendations of the Childhood Obesity Task Force unveiled action plan to solving the problem of childhood obesity within a generation.

Menu boards in K-12 schools communicate with students just when they are selecting their food, while in line in school cafeterias and are at the battlefront ready to combat childhood obesity and educate students to make healthier food choices.

Most children are responsible for their food selections. From Wikipedia on “Childhood Obesity” : “Researchers provided a household eating questionnaire to 18,177 children, ranging in ages 11–21, and discovered that four out of five parents let their children make their own food decisions”.

If schools educate our kids to take full responsibility for their actions, it is the school’s responsibility to provide information and guidance to the kids while they are making their food selections.

Epicure Digital multimedia menu boards with nutritional icons and data next to menu items educate students to make healthier meal choices.

Green Edge Systems represents Epicure Digital Systems in the K-12 market. Epicure Digital Systems is a digital menu board company uniquely integrating its expertise in software technology, restaurant operations and food service marketing to create digital signage solutions for the food service industry. Its core product is the Epicure Digital Menu System. Its core services are menu engineering and content creation.

Epicure Digital pioneered the display of nutritional information on digital menu boards in 2003 for the U.S. Navy. Every menu item description includes the portion size, number of calories, grams of fat, and amount of cholesterol, and a ‘red heart’ icon beside menu items when the item ‘meets healthy Navy option standards’.

Epicure Digital Systems designs customized digital menu boards that solve complex menu engineering and point-of-sale marketing issues. By creatively combining information, motion, imagery and food photography, they produce visually compelling multimedia menus and promotions to help sell menu items and enhance the dining experience. They call this experience: The Cure for the Menu Bored.

Epicure Digital clients include educational institutions, hospitals, independent and chain restaurants, contract food service companies, business & industry, and cinemas and casinos among others.

The company's website (http://www.epicuredigital.com) has an extensive portfolio of its client's menu board installations.

About the Task Force on Childhood Obesity
In February, Mrs. Obama launched the Let’s Move! campaign to solve the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. As part of this effort, President Barack Obama established the Task Force on Childhood Obesity to develop and implement

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