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Bio-optimism and 40 th Anniversary Theme - if you want this for final review of session proposals
by Debra P. Keenan 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi All - A couple people asked for this attachment to review as they prepared their final versions of their proposals for the 2007 SNE annual conference. Enjoy! - Deb

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Blair demands food industry cooperation to tackle obesity
by Suzanne Piscopo 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Given the number of related discussions during last week's annual conference, thought this might be of interest to SNE members. Suzanne Piscopo University of Malta <http://www.foodnavigator.com> *Breaking News on Food & Beverage Development - Europe * <javascript:> Blair demands food industry cooperation to tackle obesity 27/07/2006- *Government cannot be the only actor with responsibility over the current obesity crisis, said UK prime minister Tony Blair in a key note speech on public health yesterday.* Reflecting on developments in public health policy over the years, he said that business must recognise a corporate and social responsibility as the price of the new consensus in support of their role in wealth creation. In effect, Blair called for a new and robust approach to tackling the issue. /"Above all a state that sees its role as empowering the individual, not trying to make their choices for them, can only work on the basis of a different relationship between citizen and state,"/ he said. /"Government can't be the only one with the responsibility if it's not the only one with the power. The responsibility must be shared."/ Indeed, Blair argued that current public health problems are not, strictly speaking, public health questions at all. Obesity for example is very much a question of individual lifestyle. /"These are not epidemics in the epidemiological sense,"/ he said. /"They are the result of millions of individual decisions, at millions of points in time. For example, 20 per cent of all children in the UK eat no fruit or vegetables in a week. 65 per cent of adults and half of all children do not take the recommended amount of exercise."/ Obesity is rising rapidly. 1 in 4 adults and children in the UK is obese, and rising. An estimated 1.7 million people in the UK have type 2 diabetes. /"These individual actions lead to collective costs,"/ said Blair. /"It is worth pausing for a moment to consider the consequences that inaction will bring."/ Heart disease alone costs the UK nearly 8 billion per annum. The Health Select Committee estimate that the full costs of obesity and overweight people to the country is in the region of 7 billion per year. /"In my view, the reason we need a new and more robust approach to health is precisely because of the facts I've just listed,"/ he said. Balir pointed out that the UK is banning poor meat, fizzy drinks, crisps and chocolate in school meals from September 2006. The Education Bill will also ban the sale of junk food and fizzy drinks in vending machines and schools will have to meet tough new standards for school meals by 2008 in primaries and 2009 in secondaries. /"We are working on a code with the food industry on limiting the advertising of junk food to children,"/ he said. /"But if by 2007, the voluntary code hasn't work, we will make it mandatory."/ But he argued that Government needs to work with others to have an impact on persuading more people to make more healthy choices. He pointed to a new partnership with industry and the voluntary sector, which is designed to prevent obesity in children under 11. Forty Stakeholders from food manufacturing, food retailing, NGO and physical activity sector have been developing this approach, and this will now extend to encompass broadcasters, the video game industry and leading employers. /"All of this is good,"/ said Blair. /"But I still think there is a vast untapped potential out there for still greater partnership between public, private and voluntary sectors."/ Blair's comments have been welcomed by the UK food industry, which is keen to point out that it is investing in the types of programmes that the prime minister is keen to promote. /We agree with the Prime Ministers message that we need a partnership approach to tackling public health issues including obesity,"/ said FDF director general Melanie Leech. /"Billions of pounds have been invested by industry to broaden the range of healthier food choices and to reduce levels of fat, salt and sugar. A number of manufacturers are rolling out clear labelling on the front of packs based on Guideline Daily Amounts to help them to do this,"/ she said. Leech said that the UK industry remained committed to working with Government through the Small Change, Big Difference campaign to encourage individuals to adopt healthier lifestyles. Blair's speech in Nottingham yesterday was the second in a series of lectures under the title Our Nation's Future. /*Copyright* - Unless otherwise stated all contents of this web site are © 2000/2006 – Decision News Media SAS – All Rights Reserved. For permission to reproduce any contents of this web site, please email our Syndication department: contact our Syndication department <http://www.foodnavigator.com/feedback/index.asp?type=4&page=%2Fnews%2Fprint…>. Full details for the use of materials on this site can be found in the Terms & Conditions </misc/misc.asp?idmisc=6>. /

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Re: [Sneeze_l] healthy cookbooks for children's parties
by Ngoldbeck＠aol.com 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

I am uncomfortable with self promoting, but healthy cooking ideas for kids parties are easy to find in the cookbooks co-authored with my husband David Goldbeck. Particularly, American Wholefoods Cuisine, which includes a list of Children's Party Ideas and recipes for each of the items. The "menu" is posted online at www.HealthyHighways.com (click on Our Catalog, then scroll down to American Wholefoods Cuisine and hit recipes). I have pasted it below so you can get the basic idea. All of our recipes (in all of our books) are made with whole grains, unrefined sweeteners, no hydrogenated fats, all natural ingredients. There are many other suitable recipes in addition to the ones cited here (included an assortment of cookies, muffins, cakes, pies, even whole wheat "Devil Dogs"). CHILDREN’S PARTY SUGGESTIONS Finger Foods Trimmed Bread Shapes with Peanut Butter Complements (page 31) Popped Corn (page 348) Popcorn Balls (page 349) Snacks (page 349) Crunchy Pretzels (page 351) Table Foods Fresh Tomato Pita Pizzas (page 33) Souffléed Cheese Sandwich (page 34) Bean Tacos (page 36) Desserts Favorite Fruit Salad (page 60) Frozen Banana Pops (page 352) Frozen Strawberry Yogurt (page 364) Cake Giant Twinkie (page 383) Carrot Cake (page 386) with Cream Cheese Frosting (page 415) Carob and Chocolate Cupcakes (page 391) Beverage Seltzer Fizz (page 417) Lemonade (page 417) Party Punch (page 418) Nikki Goldbeck, CDN www.HealthyHighways.com In a message dated 10/30/2006 11:22:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, mbgilboy(a)comcast.net writes: Hi, I am looking for some suggestions for cookbooks with healthy recipes for children's parties (whole grain cookies or muffins, fruit and vegetable ideas). I would like to recommend these cookbooks to elementary school libraries to assist parents who want to bring healthy birthday snacks to school. Thank you, Mary Beth -- Mary Beth Gilboy, PhD, RD, LDN Nutrition Educator

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Your last chance to comment on the new WIC food package regulations!
by Lynn Parker 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

The deadline for comments on the proposed WIC food package regulations is this coming Monday, November 6! For those of you who haven't commented yet, I am repeating a previous posting to help you get going-see below: Your Organization Can Help Make the New WIC Food Packages Happen The Food Research and Action Center has prepared a WIC food package action center with an online model comment letter. This will help individuals and organizations to show their support and share their recommendations for the proposed new WIC food packages by sending in comment letters to USDA. http://www.frac.org/html/federal_food_programs/programs/wic.html The WIC food packages have been updated to reflect the Dietary Guidelines and cultural preferences by adding fruits and vegetables, whole grain bread, corn tortillas, and the option of soy milk and tofu. Through comments you can support making these much-needed new food packages a reality and provide recommendations to make them even stronger. The deadline for comments is November 6, 2006. The concise easy-to-understand online model letter that you or your organization can quickly send through the FRAC WIC food package action center: http://action.frac.org <http://action.frac.org/> Please see the next page for a copy of the model letter: Patricia N. Daniels WIC Director, FNS/USDA 3101 Park Center Drive, Room 528 Alexandria, VA 22302 RE: Docket ID Number 0584-AD77 Dear Ms. Daniels: I am writing to support USDA's proposed new WIC food packages rule because it will improve the health and nutritional quality of the foods offered, expand cultural food options, and increase choices for the women, infants and children in the WIC program. Since the foods offered in WIC were last revised, there has been an explosion of knowledge related to nutrition and health, as well as a growing obesity problem in this country. The proposed new WIC food packages will strengthen WIC's positive role in helping mothers and children maintain a healthy weight and allowing them to make healthy food choices. I commend USDA for updating the WIC food packages to reflect the Dietary Guidelines and current nutritional science by adding fruits, vegetables, whole grain bread, corn tortillas, and the option of soymilk and tofu, and moving to low-fat milk and whole grain cereals. I support USDA for building in protections safeguarding the nutritional value of the new food packages for all participants by strictly prohibiting state level cuts to the new food packages. To ensure that WIC participants can get the full value from the healthy new WIC food packages, we offer the following recommendations to strengthen the proposed rule: * Increase the fruit and vegetable benefit by $2 to fully meet the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine for women and children in WIC. * Allow WIC participants to choose the kinds of fruits and vegetables they want. * Allow WIC participants to choose healthy and culturally appropriate cereal by revising the proposed cereal standard to include whole grain corn-based (i.e. corn flakes), rice (i.e. puffed rice) and bran (i.e. bran flakes) WIC cereals. * Remove the requirement for children to have a prescription to obtain soy milk from WIC. * Maximize access to Farmers' Markets and the WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Program for local seasonal fruits and vegetables. * Establish WIC state advisory councils of stakeholders to help support and inform the planning and implementation of the new food package. Thank you for this opportunity to share my support for the healthy WIC food packages and my recommendations to make them stronger still. I hope USDA will act quickly to issue the new food packages. Sincerely,

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FW: New Food & Nutrition Research Awards @ ERS
by Guthrie, Joanne 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

________________________________ From: (Subject) Announcements of new food and nutrition assistance items at USDA ERS [mailto:FOODNUTRITIONASSISTANCE-AT-ERS@LISTSERV.ERS.USDA.GOV] On Behalf Of USDA ERS E-Mail Updates Service Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 8:43 PM To: FOODNUTRITIONASSISTANCE-AT-ERS(a)LISTSERV.ERS.USDA.GOV Subject: New Food & Nutrition Assistance information @ ERS ERS logo<http://www.ers.usda.gov/updates/images/ERSlogo.gif> New or updated information is available from USDA ERS on Food & Nutrition Assistance. See new items in all topics at http://www.ers.usda.gov/whatsnew/ This update covers Monday, October 23, 2006 to Friday, October 27, 2006 ________________________________ FANRP 2006 AWARDS FANRP's Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program made awards in fiscal 2006 to fund research on economic incentives in food assistance programs; food choices, obesity, and human capital; and food assistance as a safety net. Released Friday, October 27, 2006 See http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodNutritionAssistance/Funding/Awards2 006.htm ________________________________ This notification service is provided by the USDA's Economic Research Service to keep you informed on the latest and most relevant research on the topics that interest you. You can change or cancel your subscription at http://www.ers.usda.gov/Updates/

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healthy cookbooks for children's parties
by mbgilboy＠comcast.net 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Hi, I am looking for some suggestions for cookbooks with healthy recipes for children's parties (whole grain cookies or muffins, fruit and vegetable ideas). I would like to recommend these cookbooks to elementary school libraries to assist parents who want to bring healthy birthday snacks to school. Thank you, Mary Beth -- Mary Beth Gilboy, PhD, RD, LDN Nutrition Educator

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Obesity+Global Warming: A Response
by Suzy Pelican 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Dear WIN Wyoming and SNE members: **Sorry if this is a duplicate message** If you read the article last week in The Engineering Economist suggesting a link between obesity and global warming, you might be interested in the article below from yesterday's New York Times that provides a very thoughtful response. Best regards to all, Suzy Suzanne Pelican, MS, RD Food & Nutrition Specialist and WIN Wyoming Coordinator University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service Dept. 3354, 1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82071 (307) 766-5177; fax: (307) 766-5686 pelican(a)uwyo.edu www.uwyo.edu/cesnutrition www.uwyo.edu/winwyoming www.uwyo.edu/wintherockies # - # - # - # - # - # - # - # - # - # - # - # - # - # - http://www.nytimes.com/ The New York Times October 29, 2006 For a World of Woes, We Blame Cookie Monsters By GINA KOLATA <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/gina_kolata/in…> FIRST we said they were ruining their health with their bad habit, and they should just quit. Then we said they were repulsive and we didn't want to be around them. Then we said they were costing us loads of money - maybe they should pay extra taxes. Other Americans, after all, do not share their dissolute ways. Cigarette smokers? No, the obese. Last week the list of ills attributable to obesity <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics…> grew: fat people cause global warming <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html?…> . This latest contribution to the obesity debate comes in an article by Sheldon H. Jacobson of the University of Illinois <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/univers…> at Champaign-Urbana and his doctoral student, Laura McLay. Their paper, published in the current issue of The Engineering Economist, calculates how much extra gasoline is used to transport Americans now that they have grown fatter. The answer, they said, is a billion gallons a year. Their conclusion is in the same vein as a letter published last year in The American Journal of Public Health. Its authors, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/centers…> , did a sort of back-of-the-envelope calculation of how much extra fuel airlines spend hauling around fatter Americans. The answer, they wrote, based on the extra 10 pounds the average American gained in the 1990's, is 350 million gallons, which means an extra 3.8 million tons of carbon dioxide. "People are out scouring the landscape for things that make obese people look bad," said Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/y/yale_un…> . And is that a bad thing? Dr. Jacobson doesn't think so. "We felt that beyond public health, being overweight has many other socioeconomic implications," he said, which was why he was drawn to calculating the gasoline costs of added weight. The idea of using economic incentives to help people shed pounds comes up in the periodic calls for taxes on junk food. Martin B. Schmidt, an economist at the College of William and Mary, suggests a tax on food bought at drive-through windows. Describing his theory in a recent Op-Ed article in The New York Times, Dr. Schmidt said people would expend more calories if they had to get out of their cars to pick up their food. "We tax cigarettes in part because of their health cost," he wrote. "Similarly, the individual's decision to lead a sedentary lifestyle will end up costing taxpayers." Eric Oliver, a political scientist at the University of Chicago <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/univers…> , said his first instinct was to laugh at the gas and drive-through arguments. But such claims often get wide attention, he says, and take on a life of their own. "This is like, let's find another reason to scapegoat fat people," Dr. Oliver says. At an annual meeting of the Obesity Society, one talk correlated obesity with deaths in car accidents, and another correlated obesity with suicides <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics…> . Dr. Oliver, who attended, said no one in the crowd of at least 200 questioned whether the correlations were really cause and effect. "The funny thing was that everyone took it seriously," he said. Katherine Flegal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also wryly cautions against being quick to link cause and effect. "Yes, obesity is to blame for all the evils of modern life, except somehow, weirdly, it is not killing people enough," she said. "In fact that's why there are all these fat people around. They just won't die." The message in the blame-obesity approach, said James Marone, a political science professor at Brown University <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/b/brown_u…> , is that it is so important to persuade fat people to lose weight that common sense disappears. "Anything we can say to persuade you, we will say," Dr. Marone added. So is it working? It doesn't seem to be. Fat people are more reviled than ever, researchers find, even as more people become fat. When smokers and heavy drinkers turned pariah, rates of smoking <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics…> and drinking went down. Won't fat people, in time, follow suit? Research suggests that the stigma of being fat leads to more eating, not less. And if reducing the stigma suggests a solution, that's not working either. "One hypothesis about getting rid of stigma is having more contact with the stigmatized group," Dr. Brownell says. But with obesity, the stigma seems to be growing along with the national girth. He cites a famous study in the 1960's in which children were shown drawings of children with and without disabilities, as well as a drawing of a fat child. Who, they were asked, would you want for your friend? The fat child was picked last. Now, three researchers have repeated the study, this time with college students. Once again, almost no one, not even fat people, liked the fat person. "Obesity was highly stigmatized," wrote the researchers, Janet D. Latner of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, Albert J. Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/univers…> and C. Terence Wilson of Rutgers University <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/rutgers…> , in the July 2005 issue of Obesity Research. One problem with blaming people for being fat, obesity researchers say, is that getting thin is not like quitting smoking. People struggle to stop smoking, but many, in the end, succeed. Obesity is different. It's not that the obese don't care. Instead, as science has shown over and over, they have limited personal control over their weight. Genes play a significant role, the science says. That is not a popular message, Dr. Brownell says. And the notion that anyone can be thin with a little effort has consequences. "Once weight is due to a personal failing, a lot of things follow," he said. There's the attitude that if you are fat, you deserve to be stigmatized. Maybe it will motivate you to lose weight. The opposite happens. In a paper published Oct. 10 in Obesity, Dr. Brownell and his colleagues studied more than 3,000 fat people, asking them about their experiences of stigmatization and discrimination and how they responded. Almost everyone said they ate more. 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FW: [Sneeze_l] Nominations request for Healthy Weight Week awards
by Francie Berg 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Whoops, forgot the attachment. Please delete the other and use this. F Hi everyone Please consider making nominations for the two awards given during Healthy Weight Week in January. Deadline Nov 30. Request is below, and also attached for an easy-printing format. If you'd like to check out past awards, see www.healthyweight.net <http://www.healthyweight.net/> then click Healthy Weight Week, or go directly to http://www.healthyweight.net/past.html Thanks, Francie Colleagues Healthy Weight Week will be celebrated January 21-27, 2007. Please help by sending in your nominations for these awards by November 30: (1) Slim Chance Awards, 18th annual (2) Women's Healthy Weight Awards, 14th annual Send as much information as possible along with the nominations - date and source, the advertisement (print, online) or the claims (radio, TV). The Slim Chance Awards expose the "worst" weight loss products and promotions of the year. Categories are: most outrageous claim, worst product, worst promotion, and worst gadget. Women's Healthy Weight Awards honor businesses that portray size diversity in women. Categories: advertisement, TV show or network, magazine or fashion catalog, and other. Healthy Weight Week is a time to celebrate healthy diet-free lifestyles that last a lifetime and prevent obesity and disordered eating. Americans traditionally begin a diet the first week in January and "blow" it the second. During Healthy Weight Week, the third week, people are encouraged to stop dieting and get on with living in healthy ways - eating well, living actively and feeling good about themselves and others. Healthy Weight Week and the awards are sponsored by the Society for Nutrition Education (Weight Realities Division), the National Council Against Health Fraud, and Healthy Weight Network. We appreciate your nominations. Please circulate this request to others who may be interested. For more information see www.healthyweight.net <http://www.healthyweight.net/> (click Healthy Weight Week). Thank you very much. Francie M. Berg, MS Coordinator, Task Force on Weight Loss Abuse National Council Against Health Fraud Editor, Healthy Weight Network Note: Portrayal of healthy women in the media is much needed. The Assoc. Press reported in September 2006 that Hollywood and British fashion models are gaunter than ever. In Spain, 30 percent of models flunked a new requirement that their body mass index be 18 or above; models below 16 were referred for treatment. No such restrictions apply at London Fashion Week where tall, emaciated girls age 15 to 16 are preferred as models. And in Los Angeles, "What passes for fat is now little more than skin and bones." Francie M. Berg, MS, Editor Healthy Weight Network 402 South 14th Street Hettinger, ND 58639 tel 701-567-2646 fax 701-567-2602 email fmberg(a)healthyweight.net website www.healthyweight.net <http://www.healthyweight.net/>

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You're awesome!
by Jean Anliker 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Dear SNEEZE friends, Just a few hours ago, I asked for male nutritionists to let me know if they would be willing to talk with my male dietetic intern. What a fantastic response! I've tried to thank each individual who wrote, but I also want to thank SNEEZE! You're tremendous!! Many, many thanks! Jean Jean Anliker, PhD, RD, LDN Associate Professor and Extension NEP Director 206A Chenoweth Lab 100 Holdsworth Way University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-9282 Ph: 413-545-1693 Fax: 413-577-4320 janliker(a)nutrition.umass.edu

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Lose Weight, Save At The Gas Pump
by Hugh Joseph 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

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