Tag: nutrition
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Stanford doctor starts local ‘Get Healthy Lincoln County’ program, plans to take it statewide via Kentucky Medical Association
Part of the effort: A weekend workout group in Stanford A Stanford physician who started a local movement for a healthier community plans to promote it statewide through the Kentucky...
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Boone County Schools strategically implement healthy changes to lunch menu
Boone County Schools began serving healthier food and offering low-fat, low-sodium meals in their lunchrooms before the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act was implemented in 2010, Amy Scalf reports for the Community Press....
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Americans are eating fewer calories, but need to cut back more if they want to combat the obesity epidemic
Americans are eating fewer calories for the first time since the government began keeping track, more than 40 years ago. While that’s a step in the right direction, one researcher...
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Cut back on sugar-sweetened beverages, eat natural foods and read labels to decrease the added sugar in your kids’ diet
A greater awareness about added sugars in food products has led many parents to make healthy food swaps for their children, granola bars for cookies, yogurt for ice cream, but...
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Generals ask Congress to renew school nutrition rules, note 73% of young adult Kentuckians too fat to fight, 8th highest in nation
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new report from the Department of Defense found that 73 percent of young adults in Kentucky aren’t qualified to serve in the military,...
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Pulaski County hits the mark with a community program to get kids up and moving; a great model for other communities to follow
Communities wondering what they could start that is fun, and will also improve the health of local families, might consider hosting something like “The Longest Day of Play,” which Pulaski...
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Eating trans fat weakens memory in younger men, study says
Trans fats, the use of which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration limited last month, are associated with reduced memory function in men 45 and younger, says a University of California San Diego...
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Annual health policy forum set Sept. 28 in Bowling Green
This year’s annual Howard L. Bost Health Policy Forum “will offer new insights and opportunities from a range of civic sectors for a shared vision, policies, and actions for community health,”...
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Trimble County parents protest ‘humiliating’ treatment of students whose school lunchroom accounts are in the red
Parents in Trimble County are demanding that the county schools stop serving cheese sandwiches to students whose lunchroom accounts are in the red, Kayla Vanover of WAVE-TV in Louisville reports....
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Health care professionals strongly endorse new federal dietary guidelines, which say to eat less red and processed meat
A group of 700 physicians and other health care professionals sent a letter of strong endorsement to the secretaries of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services...