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KNN December Newsletter
Welcome to the December 2005 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 KNN Meetings:
Some Locations to be announced. Please get these dates on your calendar!
Next meeting:
Febraury 7, 2006 - Manhattan - in partnership with the FNP Agent Update Meeting
March 31, May 19, July 28
A recipe for cranberry sauce is featured in the Pilgrim Cookbook of 1663. Native Americans, who introduced the pilgrims to our versatile berry, not only ate cranberries but used them as medicine and to dye rugs and blankets. For more cranberry history go to Cranberry 101 www.oceanspray.com/news/cranberry_101.pdf
Are you looking for tasty, creative ways to eat fruits and vegetables?
Try the new 5 A Day cookbook which includes over 500
colorful, mouth watering recipes. Search for a recipe by using keywords
such as quick and easy, low calorie, vegetarian, or by specific fruit or
vegetable used. You'll find several types of cuisines like French,
Greek,
Italian, Mexican and Asian and you can search by type of meal or
course.
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/5aday/recipes/index.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/10/25/mcdonalds.ap/index.html
McDonald's
customers will soon know that the Big Mac they bought contains almost half
their recommended daily fat intake just by looking at the
wrapper.
A Review of Household Behaviors for Preventing Obesity in
Children, by Robert Whitaker, of Mathematica Policy Research
examines the research evidence for commonly suggested child obesity
prevention strategies such as TV watching, breastfeeding promotion, etc.
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/pdfs/householdbehaviors.pdf
FREE DENTAL CLINIC. Kansas Mission of Mercy, January 27- 28, 2006 at
the Kansas Coliseum, I-135, North of Wichita. http://www.ksdentalfoundation.org/kmom/kmom.htm
Household Food Security in the United States, 2004. Eighty-eight percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2004, meaning that they had access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households were food insecure at least some time during that year. The prevalence of food insecurity rose from 11.2 percent of households in 2003 to 11.9 percent in 2004 and the prevalence of food insecurity with hunger rose from 3.5 percent to 3.9 percent.
I hope all of you can pick this up on your computers. It is a wonderful
photo essay. Grantee Profile: Promotoras Link Poor to Vital
Services in South Texas
Connecting residents to vital
health and social services are the promotoras. Most promotoras are
residents of the colonias themselves, so they enjoy the trust of their
neighbors. These “health angels” are trained and certified through a
program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a nutrition and exercise book aimed at "foster[ing] health literacy" to help Americans integrate the latest federal dietary guidelines into their everyday lives, the Washington Post reports.
Health advocates and government officials in several states are working to increase the number of supermarkets in low-income communities in an effort to improve residents' access to healthy foods, USA Today reports.