Tag: food
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Some parents complain about healthier school lunches, but USDA says it’s on course to improve public health
A few school districts in other states are opting out of a federal-funded school lunch program that was touted by first lady Michelle Obama to provide healthier options to students, and...
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Website eases application process for SNAP, formerly food stamps, and promotes healthy food
With a federal grant, the state Department for Community Based Services has launched a customer service website to promote healthy foods by assisting the families receiving food benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition...
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W. Va. plans private-public model to provide school breakfast, improve child health, fight obesity; could this approach help Ky.?
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Breakfast has been said to be the most important meal of the day, and it can be important in fighting obesity. Policymakers in West...
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Common beliefs about obesity and weight loss found to be myths
Think going to gym class drives weight loss, or that breastfeeding protects a child from obesity? Think again, because these are among seven popular myths about obesity myths, according to an international team...
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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...