- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
A group of about 40 San Joaquin County professionals meet regularly to share ideas and strategies for combating obesity and overweight, afflictions that effect the majority of the county's residents, according to an article in the Stockton Record.
UC Cooperative Extension advisor Anna Martin is the interim facilitator of the Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention Task Force, which first convened in August 2009. Other members of the task force represent health and human services agencies, hospitals, school districts, the County Office of Education, University of the Pacific, health insurers,...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Anna Martin, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in San Joaquin County, was among those honored by William Mitchell, San Joaquin County public health services director, reported Joe Goldeen for the Stockton Record.
Mitchell calls Martin and three other programs that promote health and wellness, "San Joaquin County's Best Kept Secrets.”
Martin was honored for her work conducting and coordinating outreach efforts that promote healthy eating habits to schoolchildren, farm workers and other groups.
"I do this because I love it," she told...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program has singled out San Joaquin County's UC Cooperative Extension nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor, Anna Martin, for helping create a healthier community.
Martin was one of 16 people and organizations to receive Cultivator Awards at a ceremony Jan. 29, according to a CCROPP news release. CCROPP honors one person or organization in each San Joaquin Valley county. Martin was the recipient in San Joaquin County. Regional awards were also presented.
Martin is chair of the CCROPP Council, Healthy San Joaquin. She manages the Expanded Food and Nutrition...
