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Sodexo, a leading foodservice and facilities management company, islaunching The Balanced Way(SM), a proprietary health and nutrition programthat encourages students to adopt healthy behavior, and makes it easy forstudents to get a pre-plated balanced meal when they eat in the dining hall.The plate is half vegetables and fruit; one-quarter protein; and one quarterwhole-grain carbohydrates. The Balanced Way is based on the theory of caloriedensity from the top rated nutrition program "Fill Up Not Out," which offersdelicious, satisfying meals that are low in calories, fat and sugar, high infiber and nutrients.
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"Sodexo is blazing a trail in campus dining by promoting favorite foodsthat are nutritious and healthy because we know lessons learned in collegelast a lifetime," said Tom Post, president, campus dining at Sodexo. "Ournutrition focus teaches people what to eat, rather than what not to eat. Thiskey difference is part of our proprietary program that we've created with anutrition expert, Franceen Friefeld. This fall, students on many campuses weserve will have no excuse for gaining that extra inch!"
The Balanced Way was piloted on 11 campuses for two years, and was used bymore than 50 percent of cafeteria diners, as well as praised for itsinnovation and expert design.
A key component to The Balanced Way is nutrition education -- healthyeating; eating for concentration and energy; healthy snacks and healthycomfort foods are presented to students in interactive games, contests andsocial media tools.
The Balanced Way will be launched in the fall of 2008 at: GeorgetownCollege, Mississippi University for Women, Oxford College, Bennett College forWomen, The College of New Jersey, Wheelock College, Georgia College & StateUniversity, Converse College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BryantUniversity, Assumption College, Bellarmine University, TransylvaniaUniversity, St. Peters College, South Carolina State University, SeattlePacific University, California State University-Monterey Bay, St. Mary'sCollege of California, Wilkes University, Ithaca College,Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, University of Tennessee-Martin, LasellCollege, The Academy of the New Church, Texas A&M University-Kingsville,Franciscan University, Linfield College, Academy of Art University, AthenianSchool, and Temple University.
Sodexo, Inc.
Sodexo, Inc. (http://www.sodexoUSA.com) is a leading integrated food andfacilities management services company in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with$7.3 billion (USD) in annual revenue and 120,000 employees. Sodexo, Inc.serves more than ten million customers daily in corporations, health care,long term care and retirement centers, schools, college campuses, governmentand remote sites. Sodexo, Inc., headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md., is amember of Sodexo Group, and funds the Sodexo Foundation(http://www.helpstophunger.org), an independent charitable organization that,since its founding in 1999, has made more than $9.2 million in grants to fighthunger in America.
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