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KNN May 2007 Newsletter

Welcome to the May 2007 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 links to Fruits & Vegetables! Go to KNN and click on What, then Hot Topics!

Upcoming Meetings:

May 8-9, 2007 KNN will meet in partnership with the KACAP Conference on Poverty in Topeka. The KNN meeting will be held Tuesday May 8th.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 2006 annual report is now available online, with easily accessible PDFs for individual sections of the report. "We will reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity." With these words, President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey begins to chart an ambitious course for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She outlines the Foundation’s plan to invest $500 million over the next five years to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity.

Here’s the web page for the new Fruits and Veggies More Matters initiative: http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=xaowt5bab.0.btu7q6bab.4jbk78bab.4032&ts=S0242&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org%2F

CDC Finds Few Americans Follow Guidelines for Produce Consumption, Physical Activity A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that just one in seven American adults meets federal guidelines for produce consumption and physical activity, Reuters reports.
Study Finds Family Dinner Habits Influence Children's Produce Consumption
A study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association suggests that families who eat dinner together with the television off eat more fruits and vegetables than those who eat separately or with the television on.

Check out the new resources on the FNS web site http://www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhard/collection/collect_tools_2.html. These include scripts, Power Up Moves and new clip art.

The Better Kid Care April 2007 E-Newsletter online: http://www.betterkidcare.psu.edu/ENewsletters/ENews0704Apr.html
And the KidFood April 2007 View the newsletter here.

Lastly, NUTRITION & YOUR CHILD newsletter www.kidsnutrition.org/images/pdfs_nyc/2007/vol1.pdf

McDonald's Plans to Improve Nutritional Content of Happy Meals
Amid national concern about childhood obesity rates, McDonald's is revamping its children's meal combinations to comply with nutritional guidelines, Dow Jones Newswire reports.
Amber Waves presents the broad scope of ERS’s research and analysis. The magazine covers the economics of agriculture, food and nutrition, the food industry, trade, rural America, and farm-related environmental topics. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Amberwaves/
The Food Stamp Program has changed over time from primarily focusing on getting a sufficient quantity of food to an increased emphasis on also choosing healthful foods with high nutritional quality. Proposed strategies for improving diets of Food Stamp Program participants include restricting the types of foods purchasable with food stamp benefits and offering bonuses or vouchers for buying healthful foods such as fruits and vegetables. http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/April07/Features/Improving.htm

The implementation manual for a 12-week staff wellness program, Power Panther Professionals, is up on a website. Feel free to forward this link to others who might be interested in reviewing it.
http://www.powerpanther.org/powerpantherprofessionals.htm

New data analysis from What We Eat in America, NHANES 2001-2002 has been released on the Food Surveys Research Group website:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=14827.
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