- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Kids are going back to school and the media are covering the joyful moment with UC expertise.
For the Redding Record-Searchlight, that means providing advice on back-to-school breakfasts. Freelance writer Debra Moore spoke to three experts, including UC Cooperative Extension nutrition educator Lori Cocker.
"Breakfast on the go can mean using dinner leftovers, or serving fresh fruit and low-fat yogurt, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole grain bread, or anything healthy wrapped in a tortilla," Coker was quoted in the story. "Brown...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The prime reason: low-income areas aren't served by large supermarkets, forcing people with limited transportation to purchase staples like bread and milk at corner markets and convenience stores.
The first expert cited in the lengthy piece was UC Cooperative Extension nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor Connie Schneider.
She said poor people know they are paying exorbitant prices for...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Retired UC Berkeley nutrition specialist Joanne Ikeda didn't mince words when she commented about the woman President Obama has nominated to be the nation's surgeon general. The nominee, Dr. Regina Benjamin, is a McArthur genius grant recipient, holds advanced degrees in medicine and business administration, and runs her own family practice medical clinic in rural Alabama that treats predominantly low income patients.
But by all accounts, she is overweight.
"I thank God that Dr. Regina Benjamin is a fat woman," Ikeda was quoted in The Daily Voice, Black America's daily news source. "Maybe now we will stop making the assumption...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
An article in the July 2009 issue of Prevention magazine is based on information from UC Davis Cooperative Extension post harvest specialist Marita Cantwell. The magazine, with a national circulation of 3.2 million, doesn't appear to put all its articles in the online version; I couldn't find this one.
The two-page feature, titled "Keep Produce Fresh Longer" and written by Stephanie Breakstone, gives up-to-date advice on preventing fruit and vegetable spoilage with specific information about watermelon, grapes, fresh herbs, tomatoes, berries and leafy greens. Cantwell suggests grapes, fresh herbs and leafy greens be wrapped in paper towels to absorb moisture....
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Elena Conis of the Los Angeles Times "Nutrition Lab" was puzzled when pork, billed for years as "the other white meat," was lumped in with beef for a study that linked their high consumption to heart disease and death.
According to Conis' story, the pork industry adopted the white meat slogan after breeding leaner pigs in the 1970s. Scientists, however, generally consider "white" meat to be poultry and "red" meat to come from mammals because saturated fat is generally higher in mammal meat than in fowl.
"If this sounds really confusing, that's because it...