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- USDA revamps website for Farm to School program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its online tools that support the National Farm to School Network, which encourages collaboration between schools and regional and local farmers. Updates include new videos, photos and narratives describing how the program provides fresh, local fruits and vegetables to schools. The website also offers a map showing the agency's investments in local and regional food programs. Examiner.com
(10/10)     
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- PTA president responds to student video "We Are Hungry"
In this opinion piece, Kansas PTA President Tammy Bartels praises the federally mandated healthier school lunches that some Kansas teens recently criticized in an online video. Bartels cites rising childhood obesity statistics and the improved choices her own son, a sixth-grader and student athlete, is being offered at his school this year to highlight the need for the revised meal standards. "But just because a student doesn't like it, doesn't mean we shouldn't serve it or that they won't learn to enjoy it," Bartels writes. The Kansas City Star (Mo.)
(10/9)
- New lunch debit card system offers privacy for students
The Freehold Regional High School District in New Jersey in mid-October will launch a prepaid card payment system for its school lunches. School officials hope the change will remove the "stigma" of being in the federal free- and reduced-lunch program. The $90,000 computerized system will allow students in all six of the district's high schools to use their identification cards to pay for meals, which makes separate lunch cards for the federal program unnecessary. Asbury Park Press (Neptune-Asbury Park, N.J.)
(9/29)
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- La. anti-obesity program teaches families about healthy lifestyles
UnitedHealth Group and the Louisiana Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs are offering a yearlong weight-loss program aimed at obese children for New Orleans-area families on UnitedHealth's Medicaid plan. The Join for Me program teaches families to make lifestyle and dietary changes and shows overweight children the "Yes! and less" system of what foods to eat. CNBC/The Associated Press
(10/9)
- American Cancer Society touts diet, exercise
For the first time, the American Cancer Society is including diet and exercise recommendations it says can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence. People who have had breast cancer "should eat a variety of antioxidant-rich foods every day," said Amanda Bontempo, oncology dietitian at Montefiore-Einstein Center for Cancer Care. Chicago Tribune (free registration)
(9/26)
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- Analysis finds vitamin C supplements lower blood pressure
People with hypertension who took high doses of vitamin C supplements lowered their blood pressure, Johns Hopkins researchers reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The analysis was a review of data from 21 clinical trials that used an average dose of 500 milligrams per day for a median time period of eight weeks. FoodConsumer.org
(10/7)
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- Anti-obesity program to bring exercise, nutrition to urban areas
The Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been given a $20 million, five-year CDC grant to implement an anti-obesity campaign in urban areas throughout the U.S., focusing on culturally popular exercises and nutrition. The program will be run through hundreds of community-based organizations that will get a tool kit and money for staff, so they can bring exercise to where people like to gather, including workplaces, churches and senior centers. TakePart.com
(10/9)
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