Tag: nutrition
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Farm to School program teaches Perry County students how to eat healthier, explores local food as an industry in Eastern Ky.
Image from WYMT Mountain News Perry County students are learning about nutrition through the Farm to School program, which aims to inform students about healthy food while supporting local food...
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American Academy of Pediatrics calls for systemic changes to decrease climate change because children’s health is at stake
The American Academy of Pediatrics has called on pediatricians, the health sector and politicians to solve what it calls “the crisis of climate change” to protect children from its immediate...
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Nationally and statewide, farm-to-school program is a success
With approximately 80 Kentucky school districts participating in the Farm to School program, many of them are finding special ways to celebrate National Farm to School Month, with much to...
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FDA re-opening comment period for Nutrition Facts Label; will be open Tuesday through Friday
Beginning Tuesday, Oct. 20, the Food and Drug Administration “will re-open the comment period for its Supplemental Proposed Rule for Updating the Nutrition Facts Label” through Friday, Oct. 22, reports...
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Cooking classes in E. Ky. help residents, researchers find ways to overcome barriers that hinder healthy eating in rural areas
Almost 180 cooks in six Eastern Kentucky counties are learning about heart-healthy cooking at their local Cooperative Extension office, while also helping with dietary research, according to a University of Kentucky news...
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Australian filmmaker gained 22 pounds eating foods that most parents think are healthy; visited Ky. to see ‘Mountain Dew mouth’
An Australian filmmaker, while maintaining his normal caloric intake and eating standard grocery store items, ate the equivalent of 40 teaspoons of sugar a day for two months and gained...
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Luallen makes case for staying on health-reform course, at forum that focused on relationship between health and communities
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Health is not just determined by access to health care, it is also determined by the communities we live in. This was the main...
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Are your children’s school foods canned or in plastic? That could cause health problems, study in California suggests
Researchers have found that elementary-school children, especially low-income students who are more likely to eat federally funded foods rather than pack a lunch, are being exposed to “school meals that...
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Newspapers across the state are reporting about school lunch and nutrition programs, of great interest to readers with students
Kentucky newspapers are writing about school meals, against the backdrop of controversy about federal nutrition guidelines, and these are stories with a high level of interest among a key demographic...
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Political documentary about Ky. legislative effort to recognize the health benefits of plant-based diet debuts in Louisville Sept. 17
A political documentary, PlantPure Nation, that tells the story of Kentucky efforts to recognize the benefits of eating a plant-based diet, premieres in Kentucky Sept. 17 at the Baxter Avenue...