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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
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KNN January Newsletter |
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Welcome to the January 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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| Visit the Web site:www.nal.usda.gov/foodstamp/ for lots of information on
nutrition programming for low income persons. |
Interventions that did NOT
emphasize the health benefits of fruits and vegetables showed larger
effects than that those which did. So, promote fruits and vegetables as
being tasty rather than healthy. See also a review of children and
physical activity programs http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/EPPIWeb/home.aspx?page=/hp/reports/physical_activity02/children_pa.htm
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| Low-income working households are
less likely to participate in the Food Stamp Program if
they work traditional daytime hours, hold multiple jobs, and work more
hours, but they are more likely to participate if they frequently change
jobs. www.ers.usda.gov/publications/efan03012/ |
Food Stamp Program Access
Study: Local Office Policies and Practices
Available at:www.ers.usda.gov/publications/efan03013/
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Portland, Oregon officials find
living on food stamps requires dramatic diet and life changes (World, Coos
Bay, Oregon, December 8, 2003). As part of the Multnomah County Walk a
Mile program, seven Portland-area city and county officials were matched
with a low-income person and tried to live on food stamps for the month of
November. The program was part of a national campaign to bring policy
makers face-to-face with the reality of life for low-income people. Some
of the officials could not stick with the program, and all agreed that it
is nearly impossible without dramatic diet and life changes www.theworldlink.com/articles/2003/12/08/news/news10.txt
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| This Urban Institute study finds
that more than four million nonelderly low-income families -- many of them
working low-income families --turned to a food pantry in 2002. The report,
Many Families Turn to Food Pantries for Help, is based on the 40,000
household National Survey of America's Families. It finds that nearly 70
percent of families using a food pantry include a working adult. Almost 60
percent of these families have children. Nearly half of those that turned
to food pantries also had some help from the federal food stamp program.
www.urban.org/media/index.htm |
Eat Smart. Play Hard.ä NEW
EDUCATIONAL AND PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS now available! The materials include
a sticker sheet, table tents, static window clings, school lunch radio
public service announcement, screen savers, and songs. Use these materials
to support and enhance your ongoing nutrition education efforts. www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhard/WhatsNew/whats_new.html.
To order materials click here: www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhard/collection/Files/powerpac-order.pdf.
The completed form should be faxed directly to 703-605-6852. Allow 4-6
weeks delivery time. |
If you are in need of
Non-English child nutrition on-line resources, the Child
Care Nutrition Resource System has a new section of Non-English resources.
The following languages are now available with information on CACFP,
Healthy Eating, Food Safety, Recipes, Parent Tips, Infant Feeding, and
more: Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, and Haitian/Creole. www.nal.usda.gov/childcare/Resources/multilingual_multicultural.html
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| The Federal Trade Commission
announced its “Red Flag” education campaign to assist
media outlets voluntarily to screen out weight-loss product ads containing
claims that are too good to be true. www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/12/weightlossrpt.htm |
| The inaugural issue of
Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is now available! Visit
www.cdc.gov/pcd where
you will find downloadable articles from our January 2004 issue and more
information on PCD. |
| The Internet can be a hodgepodge
of informational resources--some accurate and trustworthy, some just plain
wrong and even potentially dangerous. See the September/October issue of
Food Insight at http://ific.org. Go to the Food Insight Newsletter, then
Highway to Health: Cruising For Accurate Information On The Web. |
| I think our 5 minutes
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information you to include in next month’s KNN email
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