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From YouTube: Food 4 Thought - Former AACPS Student Board Member
Description
Host Jodi Risse, MS, RD, LDN, along with featured guests, discuss topics promoting healthy lifestyles, communities of wellness, and the school meals program in Anne Arundel County Public Schools. This month Jodi talks with Nick LeFavor, a former AACPS Student Board Member. Original air date November 1, 2014.
A
A
B
I'm
Nicola
favor
I'm,
an
Anne
Arundel
County
resident
born
and
raised
I
grew
up
right
outside
of
Annapolis
I.
Recently
graduated
from
Old
Mill
high
school
in
2013,
where
upon
graduation
I
started
attending
lasalle
university,
Allis
style
University,
I'm
currently
majoring
in
finance
and
I'm
dual
majoring
in
PPE,
which
is
political,
science,
philosophy
and
economics,
and
it's
kind
of
our
universities
way
of
having
a
public
policy
major,
so
I
hope
to
go
in
that
public
service
field
of
work
and
really
try
to
impact.
My
community
at
lasalle
I
also
participate
in
cross-country
track.
B
A
Let's
tell
other
viewers
a
little
bit:
we
met
each
other
many
years
ago
and
our
superintendent
at
the
time,
dr.
Kevin
Maxwell,
would
whole
host
a
teen
advisory
group
and
we
would
talk
about
concerns
and
opportunities
in
the
school
system
to
have
students
like
yourself
when
you
were
here,
have
an
impact
in
a
positive
impact
on
the
school
system.
A
In
that
year
there
was
some
interesting
discussion
about
food
and
I
was
relatively
new
as
the
food
service
director
here
in
a
neural,
the
county
I'm
sure
a
little
bit
about
that,
and
you
know
when
you
were
a
student,
how
did
it
feel
being
a
student
for
your
K
through
12
years
here
in
a
neural,
the
county?
Well.
B
That
Teen
Advisory
seems
like
ages
ago,
I
think
almost
four
years
now,
but
had
the
food
discussion
you're
talking
about,
we
were
discussing
the
case
of
honey
mustard
and
how
it
was
taken
away
from
our
school
and
how
our
students
were
really
passionate
about
their
salad,
dressings
and
instead
of
just
taking
it
away
from
us
through
that
teen
advisory.
We
discussed,
and
you
discussed
with
us
a
compromise
to
find
a
low-fat
low-calorie
option,
so
we
could
get
the
best
of
both
worlds.
B
Now
being
a
student,
you
kind
of
really
narrow
minded
in
your
perspective
about
wellness.
For
the
most
part,
students
on
I
think
wellness
is
about
what
you
eat
in
the
cafeteria
and
a
little
bit
of
what
you
do
during
PE
in
physical
education,
but
as
I
grew
older
I
realized
how
all-encompassing
wellness
is
for
our
school
system.
It
permeates
every
body
of
our
school
day
in
elementary
school.
You
definitely
only
think
it's
about
that
chocolate,
milk.
B
You
get
there
in
lunch
or
that
recess
time
or
that
p
time
where
you're
playing
tag,
but
as
you
get
through
high
school,
you
realize
it's
about
your
mental
well-being.
Your
mental
wellness,
your
environmental
wellness,
staying
green
keeping
your
school,
safe
and
clean,
and
that's
really
where
your
way
awareness
expands
as
you
go
through
the
years
from
K
through
12.
So
by
the
time
you
graduate
high
school,
you
know
it's,
it's
just
a
whole
different
perspective
when
you
started
and.
A
Don't
you
think,
even
over
the
years
and
I've
been
here
many
years
as
well
in
the
division?
Not
always
a
supervisor,
we've
just
grown
so
much
as
a
county
to
really
look
at
how
well
we
can
make
the
student
right,
so
a
healthy
student
will
create
a
healthy
school
and
we
ultimate.
We
ultimately
really
cultivate
a
community
of
wellness
right
because
you
are
excited
about
what
you're
seeing
at
school
or
what
you're
learning
at
school
and
you
get
to
take
that
home
to
your
mom
and
dad
or
your
siblings.
A
B
Growing
up
being
the
youngest
of
three,
my
older
brother
and
sister
also
went
through
the
school
system.
I
can
remember
when
I
was
young,
what
they're
learning
about
school
and
what
they're
learning
in
health
class
they've
come
home
and
practice
on
me
if
I
was
eating
something
bad
when
I
was
really
little.
My
older
brother
be
like
it
stop
eating
that.
B
A
A
It's
every
adult
in
that
school
building,
it's
all
of
the
students
in
the
school
building,
be
it
a
66
year
old
or
a
17
year
old
I
mean
we
really
feel
pretty
passionate
about
each
and
every
person
and
the
difference
we
can
make
for
the
student,
because
we
know
we
can
make
a
difference
for
the
community
at
large.
Now
in
2012
it
was
a
pretty
special
year
for
you.
A
I
know
it
was
your
senior
year
and
that's
really
cool
being
a
senior,
because
you
were
the
you
know,
big
guy
on
campus,
but
I'm
very
unique
in
Anne
Arundel
County.
We
have
a
student
board
member
and,
as
a
student
board
member,
they
have
full
voting
rights.
So
you
really
are
empowered
to
make
decisions
on
budget
or
on
human
resources
or
on
wellness,
which
we
talked
about
a
lot.
Can
you
share
with
the
viewers
a
little
bit
because
you
were
our
student
board
member
in
2012-2013.
C
A
Is
that
like
I,
just
I
know
when
I
go
in
front
of
the
board?
It's
it's
so
powerful
for
me
as
a
supervisor
looking
up
in
and
just
engaging
with
what
we
love
to
do
here
in
Food
and
Nutrition
Services.
How
does
it
feel
sitting
up
there
on
the
stage
as
the
student
board
member
and
really
reflecting
back
of
the
decisions
you
made
and
the
choices
you
were
able
to
make
to
really?
You
know,
move
in
Arundel
County
forward?
Well,.
B
What
I
always
tell
everybody
about
my
experience
on
as
student
member
on
the
board
of
education
is
that
it
was
life-changing.
It's
a
priceless
and
education
in
and
of
itself.
You
learn
so
much
and
very,
very
short,
ear,
very
fast
paced
that
by
the
end
of
the
year
you
just
look
back
and
wow
you're,
a
totally
different
person
from
start
to
finish.
I
think
the
biggest
thing
I
learned
being
on
the
board
of
education
is
my
whole
perspective
about
education.
B
Education
is
so
much
more
than
teaching
and
learning
like
you,
it's
all-encompassing.
We
have
wellness
programs
to
worry
about.
We
have
legislative
measures
to
be
taken,
we
have
political
relationships,
be
solidified
and
we
have
budgets
to
be
managed.
So
I
think
what
I
learned
most
about
education
is
that
sometimes
you
have
to
look
past
the
education
and
realize
that
educate
education,
school
systems
are
kind
of
like
businesses
and
as
businesses
we
have
to
be
competitive
with
our
competitors.
A
Did
you
have
when
you
set
on
the
board?
Did
your
fellow
classmates
are
really
good
friends
of
yours?
Did
they
offer
you
tips
or
advice,
or
would
they
share
with
you
what
they
felt
was
really
important
to
them
as
students
in
Anne,
Arundel
County,
and
how
you
could
you
could
be
the
voice
for
them?
Well,.
A
Time
right
I
mean
we
have
to
best
prepare
them
to
go
out
and
I
always
look
at
the
healthy
lifestyle
piece
of
it,
because
I
think
that
really
keeps
them
active,
healthy
adults
that
can
be
ready
to
work
in
the
more
right
and
charged
and
fueled
and
report
to
work
on
a
daily
basis
and
not
have
to
worry
about
sickness
or
tardies,
and
some
of
those
things
that
they
might,
if
they're,
not
living
a
healthy
lifestyle.
Yeah.
D
A
When
you
so
I
guess,
3
or
K
through
12
wellness
initiatives
have
continued
to
grow
here.
Obviously,
but
what
what?
If
any,
do
you
see
is
the
biggest
you
know
wellness
initiatives
or
impacts
that
you
saw
that
the
school
system
did
that
helped
like?
Could
it
be
the
bullying,
or
you
know,
is
the
green
environment,
something
that
you
really
saw
change
so
much
over
your
years
that
we
now
have
students
that
are
looking
at
you
know,
air
quality
and
the
chemicals
that
they
used
to
clean
the
buildings.
Things
like
that
I
think.
B
The
importance
on
wellness
has
definitely
developed
over
the
years.
Like
I
said
before,
I
mean
when
I
was
in
elementary
school.
A
lot
of
the
wellness
initiatives
were
focused
on
eating
right,
getting
near
60
minutes
of
exercise
every
day
through
programs
such
like
jump
rope
for
heart,
but
as
I
got
older,
it
started
to
be
more
income
scene
with
the
bullying.
Bullying
was
a
very
strong
initiative
through
my
middle
school
and
early
high
school
years.
That
was
a
strong
focus
in
our
schools
and
I.
B
Think
that
goes
a
long
way
to
kind
of
create
a
good
mental
health
and
mental
wellness
community
in
our
school
systems,
and,
like
you
said,
the
green
initiatives
were
probably
in
my
later
high
school
years.
The
big
focus
for
all
the
science
classes,
our
science
clubs
and
looking
at
the
air
quality
of
our
schools,
how
to
make
our
schools
more
green
and
I
think
you
can
even
see
it
in
our
science
fair
projects
of
late.
We
have
a
lot
of
students
doing
amazing
things
with
their
science
projects.
A
D
A
A
So
it
really
is
it's
nice
to
see
it.
It's
nice
to
see
what
interval
de
County
Public
Schools
produced
for
you
and
the
person
that
made
you
and
I
think
we
really
do
that.
Each
and
every
day
before
we
go
to
break
we're
just
going
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
we've
looked
at
the
Wellness
Policy
and
what
did
you
find
I
guess
on
our
website?
A
There
is
a
wellness
section
it
you
know
we're
only
going
to
talk
about
it
briefly,
but
for
a
parent
watching
or
if
you
were
watching,
they
can
go
to
our
website
and
they
could
just
find
some
wellness
initiatives
that
we
have
out
there
do
you.
Would
you
encourage
a
parent,
I
guess
to
go?
Look
there,
I
mean,
as
the
Food
Service
Authority.
Obviously
I
feel
that
our
meal
stuff
there
is.
D
A
B
B
There's
a
lot
of
phone
numbers,
a
lot
of
reading
material
and
text
that
you
can
look
at
to
really
educate
yourself
as
a
parent
and
for
those
older
students
to
educate
themselves
on
how
to
live
a
healthy
lifestyle
and,
like
I
said,
if
you
can
change
the
actions
that
are
in
your
home,
you
can
change
the
actions
that
you'll
take
on
to
when
you're
a
young,
adult
or
you're
an
independent
adult
at
college.
Very.
A
C
A
E
When
a
school
bus
stops
to
load
students
as
a
driver,
this
is
what
you
will
see
at
150
feet.
The
bus
will
activate
hazard
lights
at
a
hundred
feet.
The
bus
driver
will
activate
the
amber
light.
They
will
start
slowing
down
at
ten
feet
before
the
bus
stops.
They
will
turn
on
the
red
bus
lights,
their
stop
sign
will
come
out
and
students
will
begin
to
load
once
all
students
are
on
board
safely.
The
bus
driver
will
turn
off
red
light
and
move
forward
at
this
time.
It
is
safe
for
the
motorists
to
resume
movement.
F
Since
being
online
is
part
of
our
lives,
it's
a
good
idea
to
take
steps
to
protect
ourselves,
our
information
and
our
computers.
One
thing
you
can
do
to
stay
safe
is
to
limit
your
online
friends
to
people
you
actually
know
by
turning
on
privacy,
settings
and
learning
about
location-based
services.
You
can
keep
strangers
from
learning
too
much
about
you
and
don't
give
certain
information
out
to
anyone.
Your
social
security
number
family
bank
accounts
and
even
your
password
can
cause
lots
of
trouble
in
the
wrong
hands.
F
A
Welcome
back
and
thanks
for
staying
tuned
to
Food
for
Thought
nikla
favor
from
Anne
Arundel
County
joins
me
today
to
talk
a
lot
about
wellness
initiatives
being
a
past
student
student
board
member
and
now
a
college
student
NIC.
We
talked
so
much
in
the
first
segment
about
just
your
history
in
Anne,
Arundel,
County
and
I
love
that
you're.
You
know
a
lifetime
resident
here
as
well,
but
let's
talk
about
how
you
are
in
Arundel,
County,
Public,
Schools
years
prepared
you
for
college.
Ok.
A
So
how
did
we
prepare
you
as
a
school
system
as
well
as
your
mom
and
dad,
because
I
think
that's
pretty
important?
You
talked
about
home
and
it
sounds
like
mom
and
dad
again
gave
you
everything.
You
know
that
you
needed
to
be
prepared,
but
I'd
love
to
go
through.
What
is
the
typical
college
day
look
like
and
how?
A
B
So
a
typical
days,
I'll
get
up,
I'll
get
ready,
take
a
shower,
get
fresh
for
the
day
and
then
I'll
go
to
breakfast,
have
a
very
balanced
breakfast,
usually
a
bagel,
some
fruits,
some
juice
and
then
I'm
running
off
to
class.
To
get
my
studies
done,
but
as
soon
as
I've
done
with
class.
For
that
morning,
session
I
have
to
sprint
my
butt
to
practice
and
I
practice.
B
It
usually
2-3
hour
practice
very
intense,
very
rigorous,
but
it
just
so
happens
that
the
time
we
n
practice
is
about
15
minutes
after
lunch
is
served
in
the
dining
hall.
So
it's
a
struggle
some
days
to
kind
of
be
fueled,
be
ready
for
kind
of
get
you
through
the
night,
because
sometimes
we
have
class
during
the
night
as
well.
B
So
it's
really
important
for
me
to
take
what
I
learned
in
school
about
eating
healthy
and
health
class
and
what
my
parents
taught
me
about
being
fueled
and
being
ready
for
the
day,
so
I
keep
fruits
vegetables,
some
very
complex,
carbohydrates.
In
my
room.
They
kind
of
keep
me
fueled
after
practice.
Keep
me
kind
of
get
me
through
that
jump
from
in
between
lunch
and
dinner
and
then
at
dinner.
B
A
D
A
Making
choices
all
on
your
own,
we
in
Anne
Arundel
County.
We
get
to
put
together
a
beautiful
menu
for
our
students
every
day
as
a
registered
dietitian
and
a
mom
of
two
girls
here,
I
love
to
do
that,
because
I
know
I
provide
them
protein
and
whole
grains
and
fruits
and
vegetables.
They
can
fill
half
of
their
plate
up
to
two
cups
a
day.
So
I
know
that
all
of
those
right
items
are
right
in
front
of
them,
but
once
you're
on
your
own,
you
could
pick
and
choose
those
items.
Well,.
B
B
D
B
Cream,
maybe
once
or
twice
a
week,
that's
ok,
but,
like
you
said
earlier,
you
want
us
to
make
the
decisions,
because
we
want
to
now
I
know
not.
Everybody
loves
salad
or
loves
in
an
entree
salad.
But
for
me
yes,
some
days
I,
don't
really
want
to
salad,
but
I
eat
it
anyway,
not
because
it's
the
right
thing
to
do
is
because
I
want
the
benefits
of
eating
that
salad
later
on.
I
want
to
be
alert.
I
want
to
be
healthy.
B
I
want
to
have
the
energy
to
hang
out
with
my
friends
to
study,
to
do
well
so
making
that
right,
food
choice
and
the
long
run
is
what
I
want
to
do.
Instead
of
maybe
looking
short-term
in
man,
I
really
want
a
cheeseburger
and
some
fries
right
now,
but
knowing
what
that'll
make
me
later
kind
of
bounces
that
bounces
it
out
and
make
me
make
the
right
decision
and.
A
D
A
Always
fruits
and
vegetables
and
we
always
have
them
cleaned
and
they're,
always
cut
in
the
refrigerator
and
I.
Think
for
viewer
watching
that's
a
good
tip
to
have
have
carrot,
sticks,
ready
to
go
or
celery
sticks,
fresh
fruit,
already
cut
and
ready
to
go.
I
mean
I.
Think
we
see
our
children
all
the
time
they
just
open
that
refrigerator
door
and
that's
what
they're
grabbing
yeah.
B
That's
really
important,
being
a
being
one
of
three
children
and
two
parents
working,
you
know
it
was
grab
and
go.
It
was
a
very
fast-paced
lifestyle
at
our
home
we
were
driving
into
music
practice,
dance
lessons
for
me,
my
soccer
practices
or
my
baseball
practices,
and
you
know
we
didn't
always
have
time
to
have
that
sit-down
family
meal
and
that's
where
a
lot
of
people
can
say
we'll
just
grab
something
on
the
road
like
at
a
fast
food
place
like
mcdonalds.
B
A
We
do
the
same
thing:
we
have
a
grab-and-go
option
in
schools
and
we're
doing
more
and
more
grab-and-go
options
at
especially
in
secondary
schools
are
in
high
schools
at
remote
locations.
So
you
can
come
up
and
you
can
get
a
wrap,
we're
adding
some
wraps
you're
going
to
get
your
fruit
or
vegetable
right
in
there.
You
can
add
our
additional
fruits
and
vegetables.
Your
milk
and
our
milk
is
fat-free
or
one
percent,
and
then
off
you
go
so
it
really
is.
I
think
our
society
today
is
sometimes
rushed
right.
D
D
A
At
work,
or
where
do
you
get
your?
You
know
your
kids
to
practice?
So
I
think
it's
important,
but
I
think
even
more
important
is
parents
after
role,
model
and
I.
Think
our
teachers
in
our
schools
are
great
role
models.
Our
food
service
staff
and
the
schools
are
great
role
models
when
they
ate.
We
see
them
having
you
know
their
plates
full
of
fruits
and
vegetables.
They
are
drinking
their
milk,
so
you
know
our
students,
or
our
youngsters,
definitely
do
what
we
do.
A
So
it's
important
to
have
that
now,
most
recently,
you
and
I
have
been
working
on
a
project
and
we
have
a
very,
very
robust
wellness
program
here.
We've
talked
a
lot
about
it,
but
our
wellness
program
is
all-inclusive.
We
use,
we
have
parents,
we
have
student
nutrition
services,
PE
health,
education.
We
have
our
school
nurses
involved,
we
have
our
psychological
services
and
our
guidance
folks
for
that
whole
mental
wellness.
That
you've
talked
about
that's
very
key
for
us
and
we
always
have
our
environment
folks
at
the
table
with
us.
A
Just
all
of
our
key
stakeholders
there
to
really
share
the
importance
of
the
overall
health
and
well-being
of
all
of
our
students
and
all
of
our
staff
with
you
looking
at
our
Wellness
Policy,
because
that's
what
you've
really
been
looking
at
in
that
legislative
issue
right.
So
you
talked
about
that
being
in
your
your
studies
right
now
what
you
feel
about
our
Wellness
Policy,
you
know
how?
How
do
you
feel
that
will
even
further
enhance
what
we
get
to
do
here
in
in
around
the
county?
Well,.
B
With
bonus
and
living,
you
know
you
can
never
be
too
far
ahead
of
the
curve
and
that
it's
adapting
its
ever-changing.
So
it's
a
big
struggle
for
a
huge
organization
like
us
to
kind
of
keep
up
the
date
with
what
we
can
do.
The
most
effective
and
efficient
way
possible,
but
I'd,
say
in
orland
county
by
far
by
leaps
and
bounds,
are
ahead
of
the
curve
than
most
of
the
our
neighboring
school
systems.
What
we
do
here
in
Anne,
Arundel
County
for
overall
wellness
by
far,
is
ahead
of
everybody
else.
B
We,
our
website,
is
by
far
the
most
comprehensive,
the
most
useful
website
and
about
the
state
of
Maryland
and
then
I
think
the
depth
of
where
our
wellness
policies
go
and
our
regulations
go
again
is
just
far
above
what
other
school
systems
are
doing
and
what
Anne
Arundel
County
is
doing.
Right
now
is
we're
being
a
role
model
for
those
people
around
us
to
see
how
they
can
kind
of
take
the
lead
and
take
the
baton
and
run
off
with
this
new
wellness
culture.
A
I
think,
what's
so
important
in
the
part
that
I
love
the
most
is,
there
are
no
barriers,
so
as
a
food
service
supervisor
here
I
feel
completely
comfortable
going
to
talk
to
anybody
on
this
committee.
Even
if
it's
talking
about
you
know
green
initiatives
and
how
well
the
recycling
is
going
in
this
high
school
versus
the
bullying
program
at
a
night,
their
high
school
or
the
school
nurses
in
our
allergies.
B
When
working
with
the
school
system,
one
of
the
things
that
we
really
need
as
far
as
to
comply
with
federal
regulations
and
just
to
be
effective
in
delivering
wellness
programs
and
policies
is
there
needs
to
be
an
individual
touch
for
it.
Not
a
south
county
anne
arundel
county
in
north
county
anne
arundel
county
are
two
very
different
regions
with
two
different
different
lifestyles,
so
I,
don't
think
one
type
of
wellness
program
can
apply
for
every
single
school.
B
So
this
toolkit
that
you
mentioned
is
designed
to
be
personal
to
each
school,
so
the
principles
and
the
teachers
and
the
physical
education
department
can
really
tailor
it
to
what
their
school
system
does
and
what
makes
them
unique.
Being
being
well
and
being
healthy,
I
mean
it
means
different
things
for
different
people.
So
I
think
this
wellness
toolkit
and
this
individualized
wellness
kind
of
program
and
resource
for
students
and
parents
that
each
individual
school
will
really
go
a
long
way
in
helping
those
students
with
specific
needs
to
make
healthy
decisions
and
be
well
and.
D
A
Really
branch
out
so
those
schools
can
make
it
their
own,
but
still
carry
that
same
message
that
we
want
our
students
fueled
for
their
day.
You
know
mentally
physically
and
we
know
a
well
student
is
going
to
have
academic
excellence.
I
mean
there's,
there's
clearly
study
after
study.
That
shows
when
you
have
the
well
child,
you
really
the
the
difference
on
the
the
curriculum
side
or
the
academic
achievement
side,
so
both
very
key
to
us,
and
we
think
that
toolkit
will
really
make
an
impact
if.
B
A
It
has
been
a
pleasure
working
with
you
on
all
of
these
items.
I
think
you're
such
a
value
to
Anne,
Arundel,
County,
you're,
truly,
a
model
that
I'm
hoping
people
watching
today
and
will
be
inspired
and
you'll
really
empower
them
to
make
the
right
decisions
that
you
have
and
to
take
some
of
the
tips
that
you've
shared
and
hopefully
they.
You
know
utilize
those
same
tips
in
their
own
life
to
make
themselves
whole
and
feel
better
about
themselves
and
to
achieve
greater
heights.
A
You,
as
you
can
see,
Nicola
favor
is
a
no
name
here
in
Anne
Arundel
County,
he
was
a
student.
He
was
a
student
board
member
and
now
he's
in
college
studying
to
even
help
further
communities,
not
only
in
around
the
county,
but
it
could
be
across
multiple
states.
If
you
have
any
questions
about
the
wellness
program
or
the
Wellness
Policy,
please
call
me
at
410
22
to
5,900.
I
would
also
love
to
check
with
you
about
any
ideas
about
new
fresh
fruits,
vegetables
or
any
of
the
school
meals
that
we
offer
each
and
every
day.