 For
the second year in a row, The Nurture Organization of Illinois will use the $1,000
grant to purchase food and cooking supplies for its prenatal nutrition
program.
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 The
C.A.R.E. Center, a program of New Hope Elementary School in Alabama, used its
$1,000 grant to purchase nutritional videos, a refrigerator, an electric range,
and various cookware and utensils needed for its healthy cooking club. New Hope
is a Title I school where more than half the students participate in the Free
and Reduced Lunch Assistance Program. And about 385 of them will now be able
to participate in a nutrition course led by a certified dietician who will teach
them about the importance of eating a well-balanced diet.
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 UnderMountain
Elementary School in Massachusetts used the $1,000 grant to completely fund its
Eat Well and Learn Program, a nutrition course that will teach 375 children about
the importance of organic and locally-grown food, as well as how to prepare such
foods for snacks and meals.
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 For
the second year in a row, the Neshaminy School District in Pennsylvania has been
awarded a $1,000 grant that it will use to further expand its Nutrition: Fitness
for Life program. Last year, the district had hoped to implement a system-wide
series of nutrition commercials to broadcast to its 3,000 students, but it lacked
necessary funding. With this year's grant, the district will now be able to air
them as well as buy food and supplies for classes that will teach 200 children
the science behind nutritional "superfoods".
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 Every
morning, each child in our crèches receives a full portion of a multivitamin
porridge with peanut butter containing the essential vitamins and minerals and
other nutrients for healthy growing and learning. We sing songs to make the occasion
fun, and instill in the children about superior nutrition and what is good for
them. We also supply milk to mix in to add nutrition and to appease the fussy
eaters. Each crèche is also supplied with Nutty-Butty mix (peanut better
and multivitamins and minerals mixed together) to supplement the lunches and
snacks they bring from home.
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 The
Lifestyle Youth Enhancement Project is conducted in a low-income neighborhood
in Jackson, Mississippi. The project participants are 20 youth ranging in age
from 12-19 and 5 parents ranging in age from 31-38 who meet weekly for instruction
and activities that focus on lifestyle changes to promote physical and mental
health and academic achievement. Snacks are provided for the weekly Wednesday
meetings and for the bimonthly Sunday meetings. Because the project has had to
rely on donated food, the snacks have been generally unhealthy. Occasionally
fresh fruit and vegetables were donated by a local food pantry, but in late 2010
this food pantry ceased its operation.
The nutrition component of the Project started in January, 2011 to provide health
screening, to teach healthy eating and to provide more healthy weekly
snacks.
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 Throughout
this year, the 85 kindergarten through fourth grade students of Vida Charter
School have participated in an adapted application of Antonia Demas’ Food
is Elementary curriculum. In the first semester, they studied food groups and
sub food groups (vegetables, vegetables that are botanically fruits, leafy green
vegetables, fruits, citrus fruits, local fruits (apples), protein-rich foods,
whole grains, whole grain breads, also vitamins, calcium-rich foods, red meats
and the importance of exercise). Most weeks they sampled an assortment of foods
from that week’s group. Chef Ann Cooper's Healthy Kids’ Meal Wheel
served as a graphic to base conversations regarding proportions of different
types of foods needed for healthy bodies.
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The Body and Mind Clinic and Research Center is happy to report its preliminary
results of the 6 month nutritional awareness campaign conducted at Vatsala Hospital
with the help of Consumer Wellness Center. In their study, the intervention group
that was taught a nutritional awareness showed benefits in the form of increased
baby weight as compared to the control group, where no such intervention was
made. The increase in baby’s weight is approximately 200 gm in the intervention
group, giving rise to an average of 3.06 Kg in comparison to 2.86 Kg in the control
group.
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"I just wanted to update you on the exciting progress we are making as we
begin a new school year. Our goal was to expand our program of holding monthly
tasting tables of local, fresh produce at Corvallis public schools -- and it
is happening! So far this year we have 5 of the 8 elementary schools participating,
and we hope that the other 3 will begin in the next few months. The School District's
Food and Nutrition Services is 100% in support of the program, and is helping
us out by distributing food samples through its central kitchen, and even offering
to prepare food when necessary in their certified kitchen. Parent and school
volunteers are staffing the tables, which keeps the program local and our costs
down.
Thank you again for your support; the funding we received from Consumer Wellness
Center was so helpful in launching us along this path."
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With a holistic approach to education and a $1000 grant from the Consumer Wellness
Center, the Pomelo Drive Elementary School incorporated a 3,000 square foot organic
vegetable garden into its curriculum. The children learned about nutrition and
the importance of fresh produce while directly learning how to enrich soil, plant
seeds and seedlings, nurture plants and harvest vegetables. The students overcame
their reluctance to try new vegetables and learned that even roots and stems
provide nourishment.
The garden was so successful that Pomelo Drive Elementary was able to donate
many, many pounds of organic peas and carrots to West Valley Food Pantry in Woodland
Hills, California.
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