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School community gardens receive grant to help reverse childhood obesity

A project to benefit four community gardens and provide nutrition education to low-income children has received a $12,000 grant from the Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health.

Guv backs plans on nutrition program expansion

CATARMAN, Northern Samar -- Governor Paul Daza told nutrition officials to fine tune plans for expanding the reach of nutrition school on-the-air program in the province to reduce malnutrition rate. “With the number of people that needs to get nutrition education, there’s a need to come up with creative idea.

Learning ZoneXpress Leads the Way in Offering MyPlate (MiPlato) Nutrition Tools in Spanish

Michelle Obama emphasizes need for Spanish-language nutrition educationOwatonna, MN (PRWEB) February 16, 2012 Nearly two out of five children in the Hispanic community are overweight or obese, as compared to one in three kids overall – a fact First Lady Michelle Obama pointed out last month in an address promoting MiPlato, the Spanish-language version of the MyPlate nutrition guidelines. And ...

Healthier school lunches wanted

Connecticut advocates for school nutrition are kicking-up lobbying efforts to expand children's access to healthy foods, mandate daily physical education and grow the state's school breakfast program.

Connecticut officials want school lunches more healthy

Connecticut advocates for school nutrition are kicking-up lobbying efforts to expand children's access to healthy foods, mandate daily physical education and grow the state's school breakfast program.