Nutrition & Health

En 2005 la muerte de una trabajadora agrcola ubicada al este de Stockton, California puso en evidencia los sufrimientos de los jornaleros durante el verano.

The death of a farmworker on May 14, 2005, east of Stockton, California, highlighted the sufferings of day laborers during the summer. Mara Isabel Vsquez Jimnez, originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, 17 years old and two months pregnant, worked in a vineyard in temperatures above 95 degrees.

I have a small growing area at the side of my house in Bishop that gets lots of heat and very little sun. I started planting onions in this area about 10 years ago but found that the bulbs never got more than 1-2 in diameter. Now I intentionally plant onions there every January that I freeze whole.

Growing more fruits and vegetables than your family can eat is a great gardening problem to have. What did you grow last year that you shared with others? You probably won't have to think very long, because sharing is powerful, makes everyone happy, and creates lasting memories.

Hay nuevas estrategias para salvar un grano crucial para la alimentacin de la humanidad Las plantas son como nosotros, tambin tienen tcnicas para lidiar con el estrs.

La demanda de los alimentos orgnicos crece rpidamente en todo el pas. Alrededor del 5 por ciento de todos los alimentos que se venden en los supermercados son orgnicos y se proyecta un aumento del 6 por ciento cada ao.

A fin de combatir las disparidades sociales que estorban en el aprendizaje y desarrollo de los nios, California extiende permanentemente, a partir del prximo ao escolar 2022-2023, el Programa Universal de Comidas Escolares.

Marcela Gonzalez, who had wanted to be a physical therapist since she was a teenager, was in the final stage of realizing her dream. But when she started in the PT program at the University of California San Francisco in 2021, a vexing struggle of her undergraduate years came back.

El costo de los alimentos ha aumentado 10 por ciento en el ltimo ao, es el mayor incremento en 40 aos, segn USDA.

Nutrition Policy Institute researchers Christina Hecht and Janice Kao will take part in the 2022 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior conference on the intersection of nutrition education and behavior and the digital world.