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contacts to KNN partner agencies and to other resources that might be
helpful to our partners. You should be able to read this newsletter in
less than 5 minutes – that’s our goal!
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KNN April Newsletter |
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Welcome to the April 2004 issue of KNN’s email
newsletter. Please visit our web site at www.kansasnutritionnetwork.org For our KNN partners, you
can complete the “Depth of Involvement” form on-line. We
are always interested in how our partners are “partnering” to improve
nutrition and physical activity education throughout Kansas.
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The Kansas Wheat Commission is our featured link this
month. Be sure to check out their website! www.kswheat.com In
addition to the article by Vera Bother on Social
Marketing, there are two new Hot Topics. One is
a link to 5-A-Day and the other is Low Income
Issues Videoclip (don't miss this!) Click on
"What" and look for "Hot Topics".
Food Stamp application information is now available on
line in Spanish. From the KNN website, click on
“How” then “SRS Self Assessment.”
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Upcoming KNN meetings:
May 20 in Topeka -- Marvin Stottlemire will be
talking about how to make good writing even better. July 15
also in Topeka. KNN is planning to coordinate our meeting with
KACAP’s meeting. This looks like it will be a very worthwhile and
important meeting both for KNN partners and for KACAP. September
23 – topic and place still pending.
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| The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation (RWJF) offers an online Special Report, “Can
Doctors Improve Patient Health by Preaching Prevention?” that
explores how health care professionals can best communicate preventive
behavior: www.rwjf.org/news/special/doctorsPrevention.jhtml |
| Health disparities will be
the focus of this year’s National Public Health Week, April 5-11,
2004. The American Public Health Association and communities
nationwide will be highlighting solutions that work in reducing
disparities. More information is available at www.apha.org/nphw. |
| GLUE? (From Risse
of Shulte, KS in the Heartland SHARE email newsletter) How come when you
mix water and flour together you get glue, and then you add eggs and
sugar... and you get cake? Where did the glue go? You know darned well
where it went!
That's what makes the cake...
stick to your BUTT. |
| www.espanol.gov for information in Spanish on government
provided services. |
| The complete 59-page report,
"The State of Hispanic America 2004", by the National
Council of La Raza is now online. You can go directly to the NCLR web
site. www.nclr.org/special/harpt2004/ha2004report.pdf |
| http://www.thepipingcentre.co.uk/ssusa/index.shtml
You’ll see me in the picture – short person, 2nd from the end in
the front on the right. |
| Kaiser Family
Foundation released a report on the role of media in childhood
obesity: http://www.kff.org/entmedia/entmedia022404pkg.cfm The
majority of research finds a link between the amount of time
children spend watching TV and their body weight. |
| CDC recently
posted The Burden of Chronic Diseases and Their Risk Factors:
National and State Perspectives 2004 on its website. www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/burdenbook2004/index.htm. |
| USDA's domestic food assistance
programs affect the daily lives of millions of people.
About 1 in 5 Americans is estimated to participate in at least 1
of 15 food assistance programs at some point during the year.
Five programs—the Food Stamp Program, the National School Lunch
Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants,
and Children (WIC), the School Breakfast Program, and the Child and Adult
Care Food Program—accounted for 94 percent of USDA's total expenditures
for food assistance, with the expansion of the Food Stamp Program being
the cause of most of the total increase in food assistance expenditures
between fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Entire Document |
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The web site for the National Coordinating Committee on School Health
and Safety is now located at www.healthy-students.org. |
Nutrition education helps stretch
meager food budgets
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/cuns-neh030304.php
The
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) can significantly
reduce how often families out of food, according to a study of more than
16,000 EFNEP participants conducted by Cornell nutritionists. (Family and
Consumer Sciences Research Journal, December |
| Internet and videos net
nutritional benefits for kids http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/aha-ipa022404.php |
| I think our 5 minutes
is just about up. Send an email to Karen Fitzgerald kfitzger@ksu.edu if you have
information you want to include in next month’s KNN email
newsletter. |
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