Food and Health
Spring is here! It’s the time when farmers markets, green grocers and our local supermarkets experience an influx of spring fruits and vegetables. Eating “seasonally” will allow you to diversify your diet; you may discover some fruits and vegetables that you love and didn’t even know existed! As well as offering some great flavors, spring vegetables are true nutritional stars. http://www.supermarketguru.com/index.cfm/go/sg.viewArticle/articleId/2974
New study results indicate that where a child lives, including factors such as the neighborhood's walkability, proximity to higher quality parks, and access to healthy food, has an important effect on obesity rates. Researchers found that children living in neighborhoods with favorable neighborhood environment attributes had 59 percent lower odds of being obese. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120410163539.htm
Food Safety
Yellowfin tuna product is the likely source of the Salmonella Bareilly outbreak that has sickened 116 across 21 states and has been linked to sushi, health officials announced Friday evening. Cupertino, CA based Moon Marine USA Corporation is voluntarily recalling 58,828 pounds of its "Nakaochi Scrape" - tuna backmeat scraped off the bones of the fish and sold in a frozen, ground state - after investigators pinpointed the product as a common food source among outbreak victims. http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/04/yellowfin-tuna-product-implicated-in-salmonella-outbreak/
Cold food will have to be kept colder. Restaurant employees who have certain symptoms won’t be allowed to work. And cooks won’t touch ready-to-eat food with bare hands, but only with gloves, deli paper or tongs. These are just a few of the changes that will accompany North Carolina’s expected adoption of federal Food and Drug Administration guidelines that will replace a much-amended set of regulations dating from 1976, state and local officials said. http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/08/1987616/north-carolina-food-safety-regulations.html
Food Assistance
“Hunger Hits Home,” a documentary that takes a first-hand look at the crisis of childhood hunger in America through the eyes of the parents, children, anti-hunger activists, educators and politicians on the frontlines of the battle, will air on the Food Network on Saturday, April 14, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern/7:00 p.m. Central. http://www.schoolnutrition.org/Blog.aspx?id=17072&blogid=622
Despite a slew of news reports about the improved economy, Mark Esterbrook knows that's still not the reality for many county residents. So the CEO of Community Action Program of Lancaster County wasn't surprised to learn that the number of households here receiving food stamps jumped 12.4 percent, from 22,398 in January 2011 to 25,185 in January 2012. http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/620862_Food-stamp--food-bank-use-rocket-here.html
Yesterday, over 200 lunchroom workers gathered outside the Chicago Board of Education chanting, “We want to cook! We want to cook!” The rally was held to release our new report on frozen food in Chicago's schools. At the end, a delegation of workers attempted to deliver 1500 "Let's Cook!" petition signatures to Chicago school officials. http://www.realfoodrealjobs.org/2012/04/chicago-lunch-workers-hit-the-streets-airwaves-for-real-food/
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