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The purpose of this
newsletter is to provide quick 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 August Newsletter
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Welcome to the August
2006 issue of KNN’s email newsletter.
Please visit our web site at www.kansasnutritionnetwork.org
We are always interested in how our partners are “partnering”
to improve nutrition and physical activity education throughout Kansas.
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| Check out our new link on the
KNN
web site! On the main page there is now a Pick a Better
Snack logo. Click on the link to find helpful hints with
recipes. |
Upcoming Meetings:
KNN 10th Anniversary Meeting!
October 20th in Wichita |
A grant from the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA) will help some low-income Kansas seniors
with purchases of locally grown fruits, vegetables and herbs.
The Kansas Department on Aging reports that 18 Kansas counties will
be receiving grant funds for the 2006 Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition
Program. http://tinyurl.com/hg49b |
| Fruit and Veggies:
More Matters will replace the “5 A Day” campaign,
which will be phased out over the next year. “5 A Day” will
disappear completely in 2007.
http://www.steel.org/news/newsletters/2006_04/cfa.htm
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| KNN’s 10th
Anniversary Meeting is October 20, 2006 in Wichita. |
An Analysis of Food
Stamp Benefit Redemption Patterns presents information on the
number and size of EBT purchase transactions, the types of stores used,
the frequency of shopping trips, and the timing of benefit exhaustion.
The analysis is based on more than 750 million EBT transactions from FY
2003.
On the same link, see also Food Stamp Participation Rates: fiscal year
2004.
(http://www.fns.usda.gov/oane/MENU/Published/recentreleases.htm)
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The July 2006 issue of the
Food & Nutrition Research Briefs is now
available on the web at: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/fnrb/fnrb0706.htm
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Please check our KNN
website under Resources for Children. We have a new link there
to an article, Promotion of Healthy Weight, Helping without Harming.
Also visit www.bodyimagehealth.org for more information and similar
articles.
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From Fancie Berg: To
advance the Health at Every Size (HAES) philosophy I’ve
decided to share openly on our website the most relevant materials I use
in presentations.
Go to website http://www.healthyweight.net
On the top HAES banner touch HANDOUTS with cursor. CLICK on the handout
you want.
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New guidelines on obesity
in the U.S. may end up harming children, says an article in BMJ.
And an accompanying article goes on to question the financial links between
the organization promoting these proposals and the pharmaceutical industry.
If implemented, the proposals would see many more children classified
as overweight or obese - and thus eligible for treatment with obesity
drugs. From British Medical Journal.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/extract/332/7555/1412
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| FRAC
released its 2006 Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition
Status Report. The report found that approximately 2.8 million
children received meals at parks, schools, religious congregations, recreational
programs, and other community sites through the USDA summer feeding programs
in July 2005. Unfortunately, this is only 18 children for every 100 who
receive a free or reduced-price school lunch in the regular school year.
In fact, the summer of 2005 was the seventh straight year in which participation
in the program declined. |
The Kaiser Family Foundation released
the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and scope of online food
advertising to children, to help inform the decision making process for
policymakers, advocates.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060719/sfw025.html?.v=68
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Report
Suggests Home Environments Shape Children's Diets A new study by researchers
from the University of California-San Diego identifies strategies for
helping children and adolescents make healthier food choices.
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| Study Shows Parenting
Style Affects Children's Weight A study published in Pediatrics
finds that parents' child-rearing styles influence their children's weights,
with the children of authoritarian mothers at the highest risk of becoming
overweight. |
USDA, Food and Nutrition
Service launched two new web pages that will help kids, parents,
and caregivers to Eat Smart and Play Hard™. The new resources will
also assist the target audience in putting the new Dietary Guidelines
and MyPyramid recommendations into action. www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhardkids
Eat Smart. Play Hard.™ Healthy Lifestyle web page at: www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhardhealthylifestyle
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| See the Kids Nutrition
newsletter at: www.kidsnutrition.org/images/pdfs_nyc/2006/vol2.pdf |
| “Kids want fun in
foods, not just health.” More than half of children surveyed
say they wish they could have more fun when eating their meals and snacks,
according to a national study by a marketing group, Just Kid Inc. Most
children ages 2 to 12 agree that fun food includes the ability to eat
it with fingers, “dip or scoop it.” “The key to getting
kids to eat more nutritious meals is to inject the same levels of taste
and fun they experience when consuming less healthy snacks,” said
group president George Carey. http://tinyurl.com/noam2 |
| This is a link to the “campaigns”
page under social marketing on the USDA FNS Food Stamp Nutrition
Connection site- there is now a link to our KNN site and the
food assistance promotional campaign we did. http://riley.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=15&tax_level=2&tax_subject=275&topic_id=1305
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kfitzger@ksu.edu if you have information
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