| Waterboarding legal when CIA used it
Department of Agriculture should provide a loud and clear wake-up call that federal inspection is not adequate to ensure a safe meat supply ("A gap in food safety," Feb. 19). This largest meat recall in U.S. history was brought about because of an animal rights organization's undercover video showing California slaughterhouse workers using kicks, electric shock, high-pressure water hoses and a forklift to force sick or injured animals onto the killing floor. USDA regulations prohibit sick animals from entering the food supply, because of the high risk of contamination by E. coli, salmonella or mad cow disease. About 37 million pounds of the recalled meat went to school lunch and other federal nutrition programs since October 2006, and "almost all of it is likely to have been consumed," according to a USDA official.
Schools remind parents of reduced-cost meals
Collier County's public school district is reminding parents and guardians that reduced-price breakfasts and lunches are available at each public school. The price of lunch in the elementary schools is $1.85 and in the secondary schools is $2.10. Breakfast for students at all grade levels is $1. Low-income families and those faced with difficult financial situations may be eligible to receive school meals either free or at a reduced price and their child's meal status will be confidential. To find out if a child qualifies, visit www.collier.k12.fl.us/foodservice/frlunch/ and click on the "Income Chart" link on the left side. If you qualify, print the online meal application, full in the requested information and mail the completed application to: The Department of Nutrition Services, 5775 Osceola Trail, Naples, FL 34109.
Police Bust Super Bowl Betting Pool
Police made a gambling bust in Far West Bexar County Friday morning.According to San Antonio Police Department Vice Unit Coordinator Lieutenant Mike Gorhum, they received information that an illegal Super Bowl gambling pool was being circulated by an Northside School District employee.Detectives followed up on the tip and obtained enough information to obtain search warrants. Those warrants were executed Friday morning at a home in 4400 block of Tamaron Knoll, near the Bexar County/Medina County line and at the NISD Child Nutrition Warehouse at 7500 Mainland Drive.Officers seized approximately $20,000 in cash, numerous betting numbers related to the gambling pool, and computers during their search.Lt. Gorhum said possible criminal charges that may be filed range from organized crime to Class C gambling.
Christopher Magryta column: Back to old-school parenting
As an advocate for the health of the children of Rowan County, I want to help give parents the tools they need to help their children live a life in wellness. I want to encourage parenting with responsibility. Let's look at the state of our youth's nutrition today. Our children are more obese than ever, prone to more chronic disease and relatively unaware of the poor quality of life that awaits them. Whose fault is this? Corporate fast food? Our work schedules? School vending machines/lunches? I think not, although maybe partly. The fault lies with our collective inability to make healthy choices and to educate our children to do the same. Simply, we do not parent effectively. How does one effect change? I have been fighting this battle in my head and at Salisbury Pediatrics for nine years.
Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Joshua Rosenthal Attract Nation's ...
NEW YORK, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Andrew Weil. Barry Sears. Debbie Ford. Deepak Chopra. Geneen Roth. Mark Hyman. Mehmet Oz. Michael Jacobson. Neal Barnard. Walter Willett. They share at least two things in common: They're all educators at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and they've all chosen to work with the school's founder and primary instructor Joshua Rosenthal to develop students into health counselors. These health and wellness elite are part of the largest nutrition school in the world and the only nutrition school whose curriculum addresses all dietary theories. For more than 15 years, Integrative Nutrition has combined the knowledge of more than 100 different dietary theories -- teaching traditional philosophies as well as modern concepts such as the USDA pyramid, the glycemic index, The Zone, the South Beach Diet and raw foods.
AINA makes a school subject out of gardening
He could not make a connection between the carrot in his hand and the orange cubes in a frozen mix of peas and carrots. "That's kind of scary, that kids these days have never tasted or seen" a fresh carrot and think food comes from the supermarket, says Betty Gearen, co-director of a new program called AINA in the Schools. The Kokua Hawaii Foundation originated the AINA program, whose name means "land" in Hawaiian, and also is the acronym for its mission: Actively Integrate Nutrition and Agriculture in Schools. The program is now in effect at Waialae Charter and Sunset and Aikahi Elementary schools for the second year. The AINA program has turned the garden into a classroom for 200 or so kids at Waialae. "They just love us -- they give us hugs" when they see Gearen and her helpers coming for bimonthly lessons, she said.
DePue wins award for breakfast program
Nutrition educator Jennifer DeHoog (center) presents DePue School District's cafeteria director Elizabeth Fox with an award check at Wednesday's school board meeting. DeHoog praised Fox for creating an innovative breakfast program and said DePue won the grand prize out of 25 applicants. DeHoog called DePue's 26 percent increase “amazing." (BCR photo/Barb Kromphardt) .
Legitimate request? Or is she milking it?
It grosses me out. Not the idea of mothers bonding with their babies and providing them nutrition and other natural goodies for healthy, growing bodies. But the act of them doing so, anywhere in my visual range. I am not a mother, I've never nursed, and I've never jumped out of bed for a 3 a.m. feeding. With that full disclosure, my gender as well as my professional (if not maternal) instincts entitle me to weigh in on the so-called breast-feeding dilemma of a mother attending Harvard Medical School. The details of the case are as follows: Sophie Currier, who already has a Ph.D. from Harvard, sued the National Board of Medical Examiners so she could get extra break time during her daylong medical licensing exam to pump breast milk.
French paradox: Why U.S.is fatter
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The French may not get as fat as Americans despite cheese, pate and pastries, because they use internal cues to stop eating, a U.S. and French study found.
Senior author Brian Wansink of Cornell University, executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, and Pierre Chandon, of INSEAD, a business school in France, said that the French use internal cues -- such as no longer feeling hungry -- to stop eating.
Americans tend to use external cues -- such as whether their plate is clean, they have run out of their beverage or the TV show they're watching is over, Wansink said.
The study, an analysis of questionnaires from 133 Parisians and 145 Chicagoans about how they decide when to stop eating, may explain why body mass index varies across people and potentially across cultures, the study said.
Other news: Some products from India could contain lead, KC Health ...
Certain traditional products from India on sale at area ethnic groceries, fragrance and import shops may contain lead, the Kansas City Health Department warns.</p><p>The Food and Drug Administration recalled Raja Foods LLC's SWAD brand products, including Abil, Gulal, Kanku, Kum Kum, Lagan Samagri Kit and Pooja Samagri Kit. Raja recalled its SWAD brand sindoor powder. For more information, call 816-513-6048.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">HICKMAN MILLS | School district shows heart</span></strong></p><p>Grennan Sims, nutrition-education coordinator for the Hickman Mills School District, recently presented the American Heart Association $1,150. The money was collected during the district's “Wear Red” campaign Feb.1.</p><p>Many staff members wore red to raise awareness of heart disease, especially in women.
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