The SNAP-Ed Connection Recipe Finder

The SNAP-Ed Connection Recipe Finder

SNAP-Ed Connection Recipe Finder is a helpful online recipe database. The database will help you search for easy to prepare low-cost, healthy recipes. http://recipefinder.nal.usda.gov

Germ Scanner Free iPhone App

Germ Scanner Free iPhone App

Germ Scanner was developed as a training aid to improve the dialogue and correct process regarding hand hygiene. This application has been developed by the National Restaurant Association (NRA) with the generous support from Georgia-Pacific Professional, an Enterprise Partenr of the NRA. Look for this app in the iTunes Store.

Let's Talk Turkey-A Consumer Guide to Safely Roasting a Turkey

Let's Talk Turkey-A Consumer Guide to Safely Roasting a Turkey

Please click the link to view the fact sheet from USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service:

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/factsheets/lets_talk_turkey/index.asp

Frail Older Adults Are More Likely to be Food Insufficient

Frail Older Adults Are More Likely to be Food Insufficient

Please click the link: 

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByxReHb7wpdDV3E0TTVvOXRPWEU

Diabetes Study: 'Mindful Eating' Equals Traditional Education...

Diabetes Study:  'Mindful Eating' Equals Traditional Education in

 Lowering Weight and Blood Sugar

Please click the link for the diabetes study: 

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByxReHb7wpdDbzV5OW1LR2pUZkk

Soda Issues

Soda Issues

National sales of sodas are estimated to be over $18 billion, including both regular and low/no calorie products, total carbonated and non-carbonated beverage sales are estimated to be approximately $400 billion per year, and beverage companies spent $948 million marketing sugar-sweetened beverages in 2010.

Science, personal values, commercial interests, and political concerns have come together to put sugar-sweetened beverages in the spotlight. Mayor Bloomberg’s approval of a controversial ban on super-sized sodas is one example, pitting advocates for personal freedom and minimal government against supporters of public health measures to address environmental issues related to obesity in children and families.

It is important for families and individuals to understand the value of healthy food purchases and plan food and beverage purchases that fit their personal, social, cultural, ethnic, economic and geographic situations.

Sleeplessness and Weight Gain

Sleeplessness and Weight Gain 

A recent study observed the relationship between sleep deprivation and obesity. According to the study at Mayo Clinic, participants who had their sleep decreased consumed more calories. Half of the total participants’ slumber was cut by an hour and twenty minutes compared to those of the control group.

The group that experienced sleep deprivation consumed an average of 549 calories more than the control group. Currently, 28 percent of Americans sleep less than six hours a night, according to one author of the study. Chronic sleep deprivation has also been linked to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Researchers concluded that a minimum of seven hours of sleep is needed to reduce the risk of chronic disease. The Mayo Clinic offers several tips for a better sleep such as including physical activity in your daily routine, being aware of what you eat and drink and abiding by a sleep schedule.

Berries Are Good For Us

Berries Are Good For Us

A growing body of research suggests that blueberries, strawberries, grapes and other berry fruits may protect the brain from decline during aging. By boosting the brain’s signaling functions, berries may prevent damaging inflammation in the brain and protect cognitive and motor skills. Some of berries’ brain protective power appears to derive from antioxidant flavonoid compounds which give the fruits their vivid colors.

The case for eating berries was recently benefited by a study called the largest and longest of its kind. Colleagues at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital analyzed data on berry consumption among 16,010 women age 70 and older participating in the Nurses’ Health Study. The study started in 1980. The study found that women who consumed two or more half-cup servings of strawberries or one or more half-cups of blueberries per week saw slower mental decline – equivalent to up to two and a half years of delayed cognitive aging.