LCC grant means free health care training for Latinos

LCC grant means free health care training for Latinos
The Daily News - Oct 11 12:24 AM
Lower Columbia College recently won a $50,000 grant to offer free health care training to Latino students. Health care, one of the college's fastest growing programs, has few students from the Latino community, which is Cowlitz County's fastest-growing minority group.Save to My Web

Scientists look to DNA for nutrition ideas

Scientists look to DNA for nutrition ideas
AP via Florida Times-Union - NEW YORK As a registered dietitian, Ruth DeBusk has eaten a healthy diet for a long time. As a geneticist, she wondered if she could do better. this year, she had her DNA tested by a company that gives personalized nutrition advice based on genetics and has written a book on nutrition and genetics. ' I'll actually make

Bx. HS moo-ved by 15G Got Milk award
New York Daily News - innovative ways to promote physical activity and good nutrition. Chosen from 50 finalists, Preston stressing the importance of good nutrition - in particular, the recent addition of

Seeds of the season
St. Petersburg Times - The scariest part of carving a Halloween pumpkin is thrusting your hand into stringy goo. than taste to save your pumpkin seeds, we'll play the nutrition card. Seeds are packed with vitamin A, beta carotene

Baking Equipment Manufacturing Association and Wheat Foods Council Decipher 2005 Dietary Guidlines
Grainnet.com - Parker, CO (October 12)--Nutrition education materials provide practical information for Council, announces the release of nutrition education materials with a practical approach

Time extended to save money

Time extended to save money
News & Observer, NC - Oct 11, 2005 "It makes 'use it or lose it' a little less onerous," said Don Hardin, a senior health-care consultant in the Charlotte office of Mercer Health & Benefits.

US Employers To Experience 9.9% Increase in Health Costs, Survey
Kaiser network.org, DC - Oct 11, 2005 Sasha Richmond, a senior health care consultant at Hewitt, said, "More employees are looking at health care expenses as their own money instead of something

J train d-rained of juice over East River
New York Daily News, NY - 6 hours ago terrorism. "I'm angry," said Sandra Smith, 48, a health care consultant from Brooklyn. "Lack of communication leaves everyone guessing.".

Zero-gravity life begins with mooncakes

Zero-gravity life begins with mooncakes
China Daily, China - 16 hours ago Chen Bin, head of the Space Nutrition and Foodstuff Research Office at the China Space Centre, said the two astronauts would have three meals every day, with

Letter: Applaud Bauer for protecting children
Somerville Journal, MA - 10 hours ago An Act to Promote Proper School Nutrition (H. 1457) protects children's health by requiring that only healthy drinks and snacks be sold in school vending

Senate panel takes up childhood obesity issue
Battle Creek Enquirer, MI - Oct 11, 2005 While many schools teach good nutrition and healthy habits, they send a mixed message at lunchtime, offering students soda pop and empty-calorie snack foods in