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KNN December Newsletter

Welcome to the December 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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Upcoming Meetings:

January 19, 2007 Topeka at the ClubHouse Inn. This is a new date! The topic will be on Commodity Foods. The meeting will be from 10am - 2pm. Please let us know if you will be attending. RSVP sprice@ksu.edu

March 9, 2007 Location to be announced. Barbara LaClair will give an update on the Kansas Food Security Task Force.

May 8-9, 2007 KNN will meet in partnership with the KACAP Conference on Poverty in Topeka.

 

Try the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s new online restaurant quiz. The quiz is available at www.cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy/restaurant_quiz.html. You might be surprised at the differences in calorie contents of common restaurant foods. For instance, would you have thought that a bagel with cream cheese has more calories than 2 jelly donuts?

 

USDA released their most recent report on domestic food security, Household Food Security in the United States, 2005. Overall, household food insecurity has decreased from 2004 estimates by almost one million households to 12,586,000. Households experiencing food insecurity with hunger decreased slightly but not a significant amount. The rate of food insecure with hunger households (now termed “low food insecurity”) remains unchanged at 3.9%. Food insecurity in households with children declined by 2 percentage points from 2004 estimates, but the rate of those households with hunger remain at 0.7%. Food insecurity with hunger among children in food insecure households rose slightly from 2004 to 0.8% in 2005. http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err29/

Editor’s note: The term “hunger” is no longer being used. This article comments on changing from “hunger” to “very low food security.”
http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-susan1126.artnov26,0,3861197.column?coll=hc-utility-features-life
California Emergency Foodlink publishes Foodlinks America 24 times a year. Archived issues are at www.tefapalliance.org. To request a free subscription to the newsletter, contact Barbara Vauthier at bvauthier@281.com.

For Americans to meet the fruit, vegetable, and whole-grain recommendations, domestic crop acreage would need to increase by an estimated 7.4 million harvested acres, or 1.7 percent of total U.S. cropland in 2002. To meet the dairy guidelines, consumption of milk and milk products would have to increase by 66 percent; an increase of that magnitude would likely require an increase in the number of dairy cows as well as increased feed grains and, possibly, increased acreage devoted to dairy production. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR31/

http://www.apha.org/nphw/2007/
American Public Health Association National Public Health Week, focusing on low wages and food banks, coming up in April 2007.

HHS and FDA announced the availability of two new learning tools to help consumers use the Nutrition Facts label to choose nutritious foods and achieve healthy weight management. The tools are Make Your Calories Count, a Web-based learning program, and a new Nutrition Facts Label brochure. This program is available for online use and in a downloadable format at www.cfsan.fda.gov/labelman. The brochure is available at http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/lab-gen.html
Here's a link to a Washington Post article on advertising to children.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111401245.html
See also: http://www.caru.org/guidelines/index.asp
The Team Nutrition (TN) e-Newsletter is published periodically to share TN resources developed by USDA and/or by State agencies (with TN grant funding), and to share ideas for promoting healthy eating and physical activity through Team Nutrition at the State and local levels. http://healthymeals.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=14&tax_level=3&tax_subject=229&topic_id=1183&level3_id=5387

Multidisciplinary Childhood Obesity Prevention Program Shows Promise
Study results indicate that an evidence-based, multidisciplinary approach to nutrition and exercise education can improve children's health habits.
http://www.smallstep.gov/ Newsletter/hints/ideas for nutrition and physical activity.
Although most parents agree that their kids should watch less television, they also aren't certain how to pull the plug. A study published in the journal Pediatrics, offers simple recommendations for parents - and health care professionals - to reduce excessive screen time, Read the full release (Acrobat PDF)
Read the article in Pediatrics
The October 2006 issue of the Food & Nutrition Research Briefs is now
available on the web at: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/fnrb/fnrb1006.htm
The KidFood newsletter is on line at:
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/counties/ceplacernevada/newsletterfiles/newsletter568.htm
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