| Welcome to our third Kansas Nutrition Network email newsletter!
We are working on a way to get the newsletter to open in your
favorite email program without being an attachment. Look for
that in the future. |
| As you get ready for trick or treaters, you might be interested
in a study done at Yale University investigating whether children
would choose toys over candy when offered both on Halloween.
The implication from this study is that children will not be
disappointed by toy treats on Halloween, so adults can happily
pass out toys instead of candy (J Nutr Educ Behav. 2003;35:207-209).
How about passing out washable tattoos or stickers of the Power
Panther for Halloween? Don’t know about the Power Panther?
The Power Panther is USDA’s official spokescharacter
for nutrition programs. See www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhard/ Tattoos and stickers are free! Go to the Eat Smart Play Hard
Collection, then click on Kids Stuff. |
| We’re fortunate to have the Kansas
Beef Council as
a KNN partner. www.kansasbeef.org At the Educational resources
button, you’ll find materials that supplement the curriculum
for grades preschool through 12th grade. Resources can be downloaded. |
| The Kansas Wheat Commission is also a KNN partner. www.kswheat.com/ They offer educational, promotional, audio-visual and nutrition
materials. Reproduction of printed material is permitted and
encouraged. |
Without adequate resources for food, low income families
often make the decision to maximize the number of calories
they can buy so that family members do not experience hunger.
This trade-off between food quantity and food quality can lead
to obesity. See a report* at www.frac.org/pdf/hungerandobesity.pdf Both Food
Research and Action Center www.frac.org and the Center
on Hunger and Poverty www.centeronhunger.org have good information.
* The report requires Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Reader it's available
free here. |
| The Community Tool Box is at ctb.ku.edu It’s a terrific resource for social marketing information,
and lots of other information on community health. |
| The Family Nutrition Program (FNP) is KNN’s “sister” agency,
providing direct nutrition education in most Kansas counties.
FNP’s Coordinator is the “Other Karen,” Karen
Hudson. Check out the FNP web site at www.oznet.ksu.edu/fnp/ |
www.flingthecow.com/flash/default.asp May
I suggest you try the “new” version* of fling the
cow? Can you make it into the cow slinger’s hall of fame?
* Fling the cow requires the Flash Player. If you do not have
Flash it's available free here. |
| Announcing a new and exciting resource.
Do you need help with evaluation? Can't find the right tool?
The Center for Advanced Studies in Nutrition and Social
Marketing in collaboration with the Cancer
Prevention Nutrition Section is proud to announce a compilation of tools to measure environmental
factors is now available on the Center's website: socialmarketing-nutrition.ucdavis.edu/Tools/somarktools.php These tools have been gathered from many different organizations
and measure such factors as availability of healthy food in
grocery stores, walkability of a community, social supports
for diet behaviors and more. Many of the surveys have been
validated or extensively field tested. |
| The SMNEC is a group of six state health
departments, funded as a part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's
Turning Point initiative. Its mission is to provide national
leadership to achieve integration of social marketing as a
routine part of public health practice at all levels. A major
goal of the collaborative is to provide public health professionals
with the skills and tools needed to effectively apply social
marketing research and practice to public health issues within
their communities. For more information, and access to their
products, go to turningpointprogram.org/Pages/socialmkt.html |
| I think our 5 minutes is just about up.
Send an email to Karen Fitzgerald kfitzger@ksu.edu if you have
information you to include in next monthÿs KNN email newsletter. |
