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KNN February Newsletter |
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Welcome to the February 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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Our Featured Partner this month is the Kansas
Wheat Commission. Visit their website at www.kswheat.com. We thank
them for hosting our meeting this month.
Check out our new PSA's for 2005 on our website. What
a fun and exciting project!
Check out our new link on the HOW page that goes to
USDA and provides lots and lots of information on food stamps and
nutrition education!
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:
February 3, 2005 in Manhattan at the Kansas
Wheat Commission office.
March 10, 2005 in Topeka
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| The new 2005 Dietary
Guidelines and consumer brochure are available at www.healthierus.gov/dietaryguidelines. |
| Food price increases the
largest in 14 Years. Spurred by the rising cost of beef, milk,
and fresh vegetables in recent months, U.S. food prices increased about
four percent overall in 2004. Americans spent an estimated $948 billion on
food in 2003, $503 billion went for food consumed at home and $445 billion
was spent on food in restaurants. Canned foods offer convenient,
flavorful, sometimes lower cost choices for healthful eating. Visit Mealtime.org to find easy
tips for using canned ingredients. |
Poor nutrition noted in
older adults. Fewer than one-third of Americans age 65 and older
eat five servings a day of fruits and vegetables and a nearly equal number
do not engage in leisure-time physical activity.
http://www.miahonline.org/press/content/11.22.04_SOA_Report.pdf. |
| Schools should do more to teach
children about heart disease and the risks resulting from a poor diet and
little exercise, urged the American Heart Association’s Council on
Cardiovascular Disease in the Young (CVDY). “School health
programs initiated in preschool and extending through high school have the
potential to influence the cardiovascular health of the majority of US
children and youth.” http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/110/15/2266.
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USDA announced the launch of a new nutrition web site
designed to help people find answers to nutrition and food related
questions. The site, http://www.nutrition.gov/, is a comprehensive source of
information on nutrition and dietary guidance from multiple government
agencies. |
| The “Childhood Obesity: A
Food and Nutrition Resource List for Educators and Researchers”
from USDA has been updated and is now available online. The resource list
is comprised of sections on prevalence, assessment, outcomes, predictors
and associated factors (including family influences, infant/child feeding
practices, physical activity and Type II Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome),
prevention and intervention approaches, educational materials and much
more. This resource is available at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/pubs/bibs/topics/weight/childhoodobesity.html |
| The National Heart, Lung, and
Blood Institute has launched the "Portion Distortion"
website, which aims to help people see how portion sizes have
changed-and calories have increased-over the past 20 years, as well as the
amount of physical activity required to burn the extra calories. The new
site includes an interactive quiz, foods that may contain more calories
than you expect, sample menus, PowerPoint slides, and other materials for
health educators. Check out this new resource at http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/portion/.
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We have an article in the
Social Marketing Quarterly Journal! This is a case study of the
food assistance (formerly called “food stamps”) promotional campaign
conducted in two Kansas communities. The United Methodist Health Ministry
Fund provided funding. (SMQ, Vol. 10, No. 3-4, Fall-Winter 2004, pages
54-57.)
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| The NASPE Board of
Directors and staff are pleased to announce the availability of
appropriate practices (physical education) documents free of charge on
their web site. These booklets describe physical education
practices that are in the best interest of children. They include
guidelines for curriculum design, learning experience, fitness activities,
fitness testing, assessment, participation levels, forming groups,
competition: http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/template.cfm?template=peappropriatepractice/index.html |
| National Public Health
Week is April 4-10 and this year the emphasis is on
empowering Americans to live stronger, longer. Today,
many individuals and their families, as well as communities and
policy-makers, are not taking the preventive actions necessary to keep
aging Americans stronger and healthier throughout their later years. As a
result, older Americans often endure chronic physical and mental illnesses
that could have been avoided or diminished if they were more proactively
addressed. Go to www.apha.org and click on the link to National Public
Health Week. |
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