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Health, Food, Nutrition & Hibiscus Tea News Archive15-Mar-2007
- 'Food Stamps must shift toward nutrition (Miami Herald)
The Food Stamp Program is slated for a long overdue name change, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2007 farm bill. The original ''stamps'' were replaced decades ago by coupons, which in turn gave way to an electronic system in 2004. Monthly food stamp allotments are now debited with the swipe of a plastic card.
- 'Nutrition important for the aging population (McKinney Courier-Gazette)
Nutrition is a key component in healthy living for children and young to middle-age adults. But good food choices are also important for senior citizens.
- 'Health-Savvy Wonder Foods (BusinessWeek)
Food makers are capitalizing on our fear of aging and love of technology with new "phoods" and "bepherages" aimed at remedying health woes
- 'Our View: Now is time to reform health care (The Olympian)
The men and women who take care of frail senior citizens in this state - whether in a boarding home, a nursing home or in-home care - earn such a low wage that many of the caregivers qualify for food stamps and state-subsidized health care.
- 'Exercise and nutrition (CW Arkansas)
Exercise and nutrition are important at any age, but older people, especially, need to pay attention to the quality of the food they eat and to taking part in regular physical activity. Much of the physical frailty attributed to aging is actually the result of poor diet and muscular disuse.
- 'Food for Thought: 'Nutrition' Begins With 'Nut' (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
It may not be a coincidence that March is both National Peanut and National Nutrition Month.
- 'Health Highlights: March 14, 2007 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
- 'Medical center expands womenís health services (Voice News)
The New Haven Medical Center on Gratiot was recently awarded a contract to provide the Women Infant Child food and nutrition program to eligible participants in northern Macomb County and those in St. Clair County who wish to take advantage of the convenient location.
- 'Junking junk food raises wholesome debate (The Oregonian)
Junk food -- the high-fat snacks and high-sugar drinks that teenagers love and nutritionists hate -- was targeted Tuesday by Oregon lawmakers and health advocates seeking to banish it from schools as part of their push to trim child obesity.
- 'Here's food for thought on nutrition (Miami Herald)
They can decide March is National Nutrition Month (and they have), but what does it mean? Nutrition, according to my dictionary, is the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth. Notice it says food, not a fistful of supplements. After that, though, all bets are off. There are so many theories about nutrition, so many experts, so many books -- it's dizzying.
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