Tag: food
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Many Ky. parents don’t realize children are overweight, or won’t acknowledge it, but many report kids’ poor health behavior
By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Many Kentucky parents don’t realize that their children are obese or overweight, or at least aren’t willing to acknowledge it. That is the obvious...
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Obesity alert study: Portion size labels can be deliberately confusing and consumers are easily, even willingly, fooled
Yikes! According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the “large” soda you order today is about six times as large as the one you ordered 60 years ago....
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Walmart, Humana to give discount on healthier grocery choices like veggies, fruit, lean meat, skim milk, certain packaged goods
Starting Oct. 15, more than 1 million members of Humana Inc.‘s Healthy Rewards program will start getting a 5 percent credit on about 1,300 healthy food items at all U.S....
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Volunteer State becoming Salad State? CDC report shows Tennessee is getting less obese, leaving U.S.’s top 10
It can be done. A determined state can move the needle on its obesity numbers. Heidi Hall of The Tennessean reports that widespread efforts to change Tennesseans’ diet and exercise...
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Is there a correlation between food-stamp use and obesity? Some say yes, and that corporations are getting fat in the process
“Who’s getting fat off food stamps?” asks ABC News’ Alan Farnham, reporting that a record number of Americans — 46.7 million, or nearly 1 in 7 — now uses the...
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17 percent of Kentuckians lack food security; beef council to help on local level with donations to food banks
More than 750,000 people in Kentucky, 17 percent of those living in the commonwealth, do not always know where they will find their next meal, according to Feeding America’s Map...
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You can do this, too: Lexington church’s fresh food program reaches out to lower income neighbors with deep discount
Rick Courtney loads tomatoes into a crate bound for Fresh Stop (Herald-Leader photo by Charles Bertram) Fresh produce comes to the church-goers of Fresh Presbyterian Church of Lexington every Sunday...
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Agriculture commissioner visits six counties to promote local food, better nutrition in school lunches
State Sen. David Givens, R-Greensburg, watches as Commissioner James Comer speaks at Green County High School.(Greensburg Record-Herald) To encourage child nutrition and healthier school lunches, state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer...
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HBO’s ‘Weight of the Nation’ examines the obesity epidemic
A compelling four-part documentary delving into the obesity epidemic sweeping the country is being aired on HBO and can be watched free by clicking here. A reporter wanting to write...
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Healthy food is less expensive than junk food, study finds
Though it’s widely believed that healthy food is more expensive than junk food, a new government analysis shows that does not have to be the case. “In fact, carrots, onions,...