- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
As part of Tahoe Fire Awareness Week, May 26 to June 3, Tahoe Basin fire agencies and partners, including Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the University of California and Nevada Cooperative Extensions, are sponsoring a series of free webinars to help individuals and communities learn how to become more fire adaptive, reported the Record-Courier. Each webinar will be held from noon to 1 p.m. and will be recorded and archived for later viewing.
“With 2012 shaping up to be a high risk year for wildfires, the more people can prepare to survive the threat the better we all will be,” said
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
California Assemblyman Bill Monning attended a regional "Health from Field to the Sea" summit in Watsonville last week, where 60 people from five counties representing health agencies, hospitals and nonprofits came together to plan the battle against obesity, reported the San Jose Mercury News.
For show-and-tell, Monning brought a 50-ounce soda mug he purchased at a mini-mart in King City.
"I've seen people drinking from that size container," said Andrea Schmitt, an intern with United Way. "It's scary."
UC Cooperative Extension advisor Susan...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
A new study of food items from national chain restaurants found that calorie counts on menus and websites were accurate on average, but 19 percent of individual samples differed from laboratory measurements by more than 100 calories, according to a news release.
The study, led by Tufts University researchers, was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association yesterday and was reported on widely by the news media. Los Angeles Times reporter
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
UC Cooperative Extension nutrition educators in Tulare County nominated two local principals and a teacher for the 6th Annual California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Spotlight Awards, said an article in the Visalia Times-Delta. A committee will select one outstanding principal and one outstanding teacher from among the nominees. Supporting comments that can be made until June 30 on the website, in addition to the written nominations, will be considered by the committee in selecting the...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The associate director of the UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health, Gail Woodward-Lopez, said USDA's new food icon, MyPlate, is more in line with current nutrition science, according to The Bay Citizen.
"It has the potential to be more effective," Woodward-Lopez was quoted. "The pyramid involved counting the number of servings for the day. So when do you make that decision? When you go to bed at night?"
She said the plate in consistent with the Center's...