September 2010
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Q & A: how to help an overweight 11 year-old
This original post appeared on a blog of cnn.com. “Every weekday, a CNNHealth expert doctor answers a viewer question. On Friday, it’s Dr. Melina Jampolis, a physician nutrition specialist.” While this exact scenario may not match your child’s, there are good references in here on diet make-up, daily activity vs. sedentary and body mass. The original link appears below...
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Obesity, diabetes epidemics continue to grow in...
Greater than 50% of the adults in California are obese or overweight. More than 25% of California adolescents — some 970,000 children — are obese or overweight.
A majority of adults in California are obese or overweight, and more than 2 million have been diagnosed with diabetes, according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Both conditions — which are related...
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School district promotes healthy eating habits in...
USDA calls Novato a model of nutrition education
Novato’s nutrition education program received praise Thursday from U.S. Department of Agriculture officials, who called the district’s efforts to put local produce in its schools’ cafeterias a model for the nation.
“You are one of three school districts in California that are considered models for how we are trying to...
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All-cause mortality rates - high vs. low animal...
A major study was just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine from Harvard. In approximately 85,000 women who were followed for 26 years and 45,000 men who were followed for 20 years, researchers found that all-cause mortality rates were increased in both men and women who were eating a low-carbohydrate “Atkins” diet based on animal protein. However, all-cause mortality rates as well as...
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Building a Nutritious Lunch
OK, school is now officially back in session in full force. There is so much to do each morning to get the kids out the door on time with everything they need to succeed. Lunch preparation becomes one more chore to squeeze in with all the other deadlines of the AM rush. But what you put in your kids mouths and stomachs each day can have so much of an impact on how they feel and learn all day....
August 2010
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Marin grass roots TEEN group advocates healthy...
Teens Turning Green is spearheading an unprecedented initiative called Project Lunch at the start of the new school year. The goal of Project Lunch is to inspire students, in partnership with Food Service Directors, teachers and community stakeholders, to green school lunch programs providing healthy food at all schools for all students. We want to help create healthy, nutritious,...
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Where's the LOCAL beef
Here’s your chance to support local ranchers committed to bringing Marin, Sonoma and Napa beef lovers healthier and more humane options.
Panorama Meats Introduces Super-Local Organic Grass-Fed Beef to Whole Foods Market Stores in Marin, Napa and Sonoma Counties
Panorama Meats, Inc., the nation’s largest producer of USDA Certified Organic and 100 percent grass-fed and finished beef, has...
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Healthy Eating - keep it simple
I sort of stumbled into this whole healthy eating/proper nutrition has amazing restorative powers thing. Well actually I was “pushed” by my doctor who wanted to prescribe Lipitor for my high cholesterol, and I said, “no way.” You can read about what happened to me on my journey via the blog on the Engine 2 Diet website. As you’ll see from the article, it is not so...
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Robyn O’Brien and “The Unhealthy Truth” Kicks Off...
Leading up to Non-GMO Month this October, the Non-GMO Project’s Facebook page will be hosting a non-GMO book club series with three leading authors on the topic.
In August, Robyn O’Brien will kick off the series with her book “The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It” (published by Random House May 2009 and now out in paperback). This is the story...
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Update: Improving Nutrition for America’s Children...
An update on HR 5044, The Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act The Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act (H.R. 5504) will dramatically improve children’s access to nutritious meals, enhance the quality of meals children eat both in and out of school and in child care settings, implement new school food safety guidelines and, for the first time, establish nutrition standards...
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Help Children Remain Active
Children Need To Remain Active Physically Despite Our Era Of Hot Gizmos
The media culture is strengthening its grasp on our children. The era of tech gadgets and hot gizmos is really taking everyone by storm and children are not left out. You will often find kids queuing up outside a toy store on the morning a video game is released. This makes them especially vulnerable to obesity as they...
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Healthier Sandwich Options
Delicious whole grain and sprouted grain breads are just the start for an amazing sandwich! With kids heading back to school and the rest of us heading out of our summer vacations and back to work, packing a sandwich for lunch seems like a perfect fit right about now. But remember: a great sandwich doesn’t just belong to lunch! It can make a hearty breakfast or a light supper.
But, like...
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Soy: Blessing or Curse?
“Eating soy will kill you!” Scan the media reports and surf the Internet, and you’re bound to come across scary claims that would lead you to believe this is true. You may have heard:
• Soy will give you breast cancer. • Soy formula is dangerous to babies. • Genetically modified soy foods may modify you. • Soy foods block your thyroid function. • Soy prevents the absorption of minerals...
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Foods served in schools should promote the health...
The Healthy School Lunch Campaign, sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), is dedicated to improving the food served to children in schools by educating government and school officials, food service workers, parents, and others about the food choices best able to promote ...
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High cholesterol in youth may do its damage later
Take note, kids. What you do to your body today really could hurt you a few decades from now.
A new study that followed more than 3,000 young adults into middle age found that people who had high cholesterol in their 20s were much more likely to show early signs of atherosclerosis in their 40s than those who had “optimal” cholesterol levels.
That may seem kind of obvious - after...
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Obesity Rates Keep Rising, Troubling Health...
Americans are continuing to get fatter and fatter, with obesity rates reaching 30 percent or more in nine states last year, as opposed to only three states in 2007, health officials reported on Tuesday.
The increases mean that 2.4 million more people became obese from 2007 to 2009, bringing the total to 72.5 million, or 26.7 percent of the population. The numbers are part of a continuing and...