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KNN December Newsletter |
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Welcome to the December 2004 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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Our Featured Partner this month is Kansas
State Department of Education - Body Walk. Visit
their website at www.bodywalk.org.
Check out the report, Living on the Edge. This report
is also available on the KNN website, Go to WHAT,
HOT TOPICS, Poverty and Hunger.
Our KNN Final Report for FY2004 is now available on
our web page.
Information on food assistance is available on line
in Spanish and English. From the KNN
website, click on “How” then “SRS Self
Assessment.”
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Upcoming KNN Meetings:
January 13, 2005 in Manhattan.
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| Chicago is taking a coordinated
approach to fighting childhood obesity, including yoga and dance workshops
at museums, free bike locks so children can cycle to school, and fitness
workouts accompanying hot meals at food banks. “There are relatively few
models as extensive as this one,” said AMA president Dr. Arthur Elster.
The anti-obesity effort “has to be much deeper than just a doctor and a
patient. We’ve got to have a cultural change,” added Elster. http://www.clocc.net/. |
| The IOM Committee on
Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth was charged with
developing a prevention focused action plan to decrease the prevalence of
obesity in children and youth in the United States. This report promotes
healthful food choices and nutrition behaviors, focusing on children. http://www.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11015.pdf. |
5A Day
Enthusiasts: CDC's 5 A Day Program is pleased to announced the
launch of a new 5 A Day in Español, offering healthy
recipes, great nutrition information, and advice for our Spanish speaking
audience!
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/5AlDia/index.htm
Also
on the main CDC Spanish website at http://www.cdc.gov/spanish/default.htm
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| The U.S. ranks 22nd
internationally for life expectancy --- down from 12th for women
and 18th for men in 1980. Contributing causes could be diet, poverty,
wealth inequality, and inequality in health care, all of which are
generally worse in the U.S. http://www.bc.edu/centers/crr/ib_21.shtml |
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http://www.worldhungeryear.org/fslc/ for information on
community gardens, farmers markets, local food systems, domestic hunger,
etc. |
Many may find this a useful new
resource
http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/
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| The Food Stamp Outreach
Coalition announces the Hunger Heroes
Program, a program established to honor local offices that
provide exemplary service in assisting eligible clients obtain food
stamps. All nominations for this year's awards must be submitted by March
1, 2005. For an online nomination form, visit the link below. http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/outreach/heroes.htm
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| Investments in high quality early
childhood development (ECD) programs would more than pay for themselves,
generating greater than $2 in returns to taxpayers for every $1 invested,
according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute. http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/books_exceptional_returns
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| For fresh produce, the
kindest cut of all: Pre-cut, pre-washed, packaged fruits and
vegetable sales are the fastest growing segment of produce sales, pegged
at $12 billion annually, according to the International Fresh-cut Produce
Association. Packaged salads are now the second-fastest selling item in
U.S. grocery stores at $2.6 billion annually, followed by fresh-cut
vegetables at $1.4 billion. |
| Cans canned:
Because only 39 percent of American consumers believe that canned food is
as nutritious as fresh, can manufacturers are upgrading their products to
offset a drop of 600 million units over the past decade, says the Can
Manufacturers Institute. New packaging methods include easy-to-open lids
with no sharp edges, new can shapes, and self-heating cans. |
| There is a link between the
prevalence of fast food restaurants in minority and low-income
neighborhoods and obesity, as reported in the October 2004 issue of the
American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://www.ajpm-online.net/article/PIIS0749379704001394/fulltext.
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| http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodStamps/fsne.htm.
The site’s key feature provides maps and Excel files of FSNE funding, Food
Stamp funding, and Federal FSNE funding per Food Stamp recipient. It links
to the FSNE workshops of 2003 and 2004, and provides links to databases
and research reports that may be of use in developing FSNE plans and
reports. A listing of agencies with further information on FSNE is
provided. |
| This research examines the
potential impact of excise taxes on snack foods, using baseline data from
a household survey of food purchases. To illustrate likely impacts,
researchers examine how much salty snack purchases might be reduced under
varying excise tax rates and possible consumer price responses. It was
found that even a 1-percent ad valorem tax would not appreciably alter
consumption-and, thus, would have little effect on diet quality or health
outcomes, but would generate more than $40 million in annual tax revenues.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib747/aib74708.pdf |
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