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KNN September Newsletter

Welcome to the September 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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Next KNN Meeting September 23, ClubHouse Inn, Topeka

10am - 2pm Lunch Provided

Upcoming KNN Meetings:

Locations to be announced. Please get these dates on your calendar!

November 18, January 27, 2006, March 31, May 19, July 28

Long-time KNN partner, Mary Washburn, the Nutrition Services Coordinator and Breastfeeding Coordinator in the BCYF, Nutrition and WIC Services Section, has received the National WIC Association’s Leadership Award for 2005.


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For a healthier heart, don’t go against the grain. www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr Scroll down to July 27. Women with a history of heart disease who participated in a research study and reported having eaten six or more servings of whole grains per week had slower progression of atherosclerosis. Whole grains can be found in breakfast cereal made with whole grains, oatmeal, brown rice, barley, popcorn, whole-wheat bread and cereal, bran muffins, whole-wheat bagels and whole-wheat flour.

New or updated information is available from USDA ERS on Food &
Nutrition Assistance Programs. See new items in all topics at
http://www.ers.usda.gov/whatsnew/

Food stamp program entry and exit during the 1990’s was analyzed. Among all new entrants in the FSP in the 1990s, more than half exited the program within 8 months and two-thirds exited within 1 year. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/CCR8/

Interventions With 'Fun' Activities Help Overweight Children Shed Pounds, Study Finds
A study published in the United Kingdom found that obesity interventions that incorporate "fun" physical activities and food preparation lessons are more effective than standard programs in helping overweight children lose weight..

FNS recently awarded approximately $4 million in Team Nutrition (TN) Training Grants to 20 States, including Kansas, to assist them in improving children’s lifelong eating and physical activity habits using the current (2005) Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Frances More Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, will be the special guest on the 22nd World Food Day Teleconference, Reflections on Fighting Hunger: Roads Not Taken; Goals Not Met; The Journey Ahead, Friday, October 14, 2005. K-State Research and Extension will sponsor a site for the downlink at the K-State Union. Videotapes will be made of the presentation and will be available after the event. For more information, contact Sandy Procter at procter@humec.ksu.edu

From www.USNews.com 8/15/05 How America eats. What is it about Americans and food? We love to eat, but we feel guilty about it afterward. We say we want only the best, but we settle for--and even heartily enjoy--junk food. We're obsessed with health and weight loss but face an unprecedented epidemic of obesity. . . . Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that food has been a medium for the nation's defining struggles, whether at the Boston Tea Party or the sit-ins at southern lunch counters.
Year 1 results of the CDC's VERB campaign show that after 1 year of the campaign, 74% of children surveyed were aware of the VERB campaign and levels of reported sessions of free-time physical activity increased for subgroups of children 9 to 13 years of age. The VERB campaign is a multi-ethnic campaign that combines paid advertisements with school and community promotions and Internet activities to encourage children 9 to 13 years of age to be physically active every day. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/116/2/e277. For more information about the VERB campaign, please visit www.cdc.gov/VERB.
A University of Western Sydney researcher has carried out Australia's first study of mums and bubs who breastfeed beyond infancy - looking at why these women are bucking the trend against premature weaning, and asking the toddlers themselves how they feel about breastfeeding. Dr Gribble says low breastfeeding continuation rates are a major concern for health care professionals across Australia - not only because premature weaning means more illness in infants, but because of longer term consequences for the child and mother, contributing significantly to health care costs. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/ra-aga080305.php
What nutrients were in the smoothie you just consumed? USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have launched an online searchable database where users can view a 60-nutrient profile for each of more than 13,000 foods. The new resource is called "What's in the Foods You Eat—Search Tool."
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