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KNN June Newsletter

Welcome to the June 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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Our Featured Link this month is the Kansas Beef Council. Be sure to check out their website! www.Kansasbeef.org. Also check out the "View From FNS". Just click on the WHY button on the KNN website. A link to "CDCynergy" is now available under "Hot Topics", Social Marketing. www.kansasnutritionnetwork.org

There is also another updated Partners List this month. If you find any errors in your organization information, please let us know.

Food Stamp application information is now available on line in Spanish. From the KNN website, click on “How” then “SRS Self Assessment.”

Upcoming KNN meetings: July 15 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.
K-State Research & Extension, Department of Nutrition has assembled a website that focuses on fruits and vegetables. http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/humannutrition/
freshfruitsandvegetables.htm
New flyers, posters/placemats and table tents that promote healthy eating, along with a message that food assistance is available to older adults who qualify is on the web site www.oznet.ksu.edu/humannutrition/foodassistflyers.htm

The Rural Monitor is part of the DHHSr rural initiative. It focuses on rural health, and the spring issue's topic is obesity. http://www.raconline.org/newsletter/pdf/spring04.pdf

Health Disparities Initiatives and other Resources:
http://www.healthdisparities.net
http://www.raceandhealth.omhrc.gov
http://www.kff.org/whythedifference/
http://www.kff.org/whythedifference/speakerkit.htm
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~acreight/401/health_disparities.htm
Go to http://www.kac.org/kidscount.html for this year’s Kansas KIDS COUNTFact Sheets.
NUTRITION & YOUR CHILD is a research-based newsletter produced by the ARS/USDA Children's Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) at Baylor College of Medicine. Current and back issues, including easy-to-download "newsletter formatted" Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files, are available at www.kidsnutrition.org
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/health/04_05_Patrick.asp
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/158/4/385
Lack of vigorous physical activity is the main contributor to obesity in adolescents ages 11 to 15, according to a study of 878 adolescents by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, in collaboration with investigators at San Diego State University.

Low-income children who rely on federally-funded school meal programs during the academic year are at risk of going hungry in the summertime. For more information, contact Dot Smith, dsmith@ksde.org or Peggy McAdoo pmcadoo@ksde.org

"Kids in Action" brochure. Due to high popular demand the supply is almost depleted. Contact Kellogg Company at the address below to order 50 copies only. Request Code # 546638075068 -- Kids in Action. Mail to: Kellogg Company, Nutrition Education Materials, PO Box 185585, Battle Creek, MI 49018-5585. Or fax request to: 269-964-6898. More information about physical activity in preschool-age children is available on the Bright Futures Web site at http://www.brightfutures.org/physicalactivity/about.htm

Health at Every Size focuses on the dissemination of research, theory, and practice supporting the Health at Every Size (HAES) Movement. It is the only journal that deals exclusively with helping professionals understand and put into practice this unique, compassionate and effective approach to resolving people’s weight and eating-related concerns. Order from the web site: www.bcdecker.com
E-mail: CustomerCare@bcdecker.com

CDCynergy was developed by CDC as a social marketing tutorial, is free, and is designed for those working in public health. http://www.turningpointprogram.org/Pages/socialmkt2.htm

http://216.71.156.105/carmstrong_xtreme.html A little piping music!
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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