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KNN September Newsletter

Welcome to the September 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 Family Nutrition Program (FNP). Visit their website at www.humec.ksu.edu/fnp 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

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:

November 18th - Topeka. January 13, 2005 in Manhattan.

FNS expanded food stamp outreach pages on the FNS web site. The expansion features a national map with links to State sites showing actual local office locations, organizations doing outreach by state, as well as each State’s food stamp application. http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/outreach
www.cnpp.usda.gov/Insights/insight29.pdf
Nutrition Insight 29 "Quality of Diets of Older Americans" indicates elders in poverty are less likely to have a good diet and more likely to have a diet needing improvement.

Low-income seniors may not know where their next meal will come from and therefore are unable to concentrate on good nutrition, according to a focus group summary report released by the Alameda County Community Food Bank of California (ACCFB). While policy makers prescribe nutrition education as the solution to the explosion of diet-related diseases among low-income populations, the Food Bank's newly released qualitative data suggests that education alone will not address this problem until issues of hunger and food insecurity are first resolved. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/8/prweb147633.htm

Mark your calendars for October 15, 2004 for the World Food Day Teleconference. http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/tele.html
Here's a clip from NPR on the link between poverty and obesity. This piece builds a compelling argument for environmental issues that contribute to obesity and the cost of eating fresh fruits and vegetables. It also points out that 50% of American families make $42,000 or less annually, and that's what drives them to shop for the best calorie per dollar.
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3854505

Breastfeeding data from the 2003 NIS are now available by geographic area and by socio-demographic characteristics.


· Table 1: Breastfeeding rates by sociodemographic factors
· Table 2: Geographic-specific breastfeeding rates
· Table 3: Any and exclusive breastfeeding rates by age
· Map 1: Percentage of children ever breastfed
· Map 2: Percentage of children breastfed at 6 months of age
· Map 3: Percentage of children breastfed at 12 months of age

On October 14, supporters of afterschool programs will celebrate the fifth anniversary of Lights On Afterschool! nationwide. Program providers and other afterschool supporters use this day to rally support for afterschool programs that provide a vital service to children and families. http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/loa_2004/index.cfml

http://www.adcouncil.org/research/commitment_children/ This report presents compelling new findings from a recent public-opinion study conducted by the Advertising Council as part of its Commitment to Children. In addition to specific research findings, it offers communication strategies that can effectively motivate the public to act on behalf of children.

Team Nutrition, Child Nutrition & Wellness, Kansas State Department of Education has joined with K-State Research and Extension to promote the Kids a Cookin’ program this fall to elementary K-6 classrooms across the state. Applications for school classrooms to participate are available at www.kn-eat.org. Click on General Program Information, What’s New, Kids a Cookin’.
Three Internet courses in Ryerson's Food Security Certificate Program are offered from Sept. - Dec. 2004. Courses start Sept. 13.
http://www.ryerson.ca/ce/foodsecurity
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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