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Nutrition, weight
and health
UC
advocates for healthful living are writing a new definition for the word
"environment." The term, they say, is the best way to describe
where we live our lives - home, work, school, restaurants, shopping centers,
movie theaters, stadiums and more. UC Cooperative Extension is working
to raise Californians' awareness about the need to change our environment
to reverse the alarming increase in obesity, overweight and associated
diseases.
Articles
Experts
- University
of California sources of information on healthful eating
UC nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisors and specialists
are charged with bringing the latest research-based information on nutrition
to the public. They conduct education programs, working especially with
California's low-income population, a group prone to overweight and
obesity. These experts are also open to working with the news media.
Resources
Facts
and statistics
UC Web sites on
nutrition, weight and health
- Center
for Weight and Health
- Provides leadership of interdisciplinary, science-based solutions
to body weight, health and hunger-related problems.
- EatFit
- Recipes, links, games and information for teens.
- Expanded
Food and Nutrition Education Program - Improves lives of limited-resource
youth and families with young children through practical lessons on
basic nutrition and healthy lifestyles, resource management, and food
safety.
- Lunch
Box Handouts - La lonchera (San Luis Obispo County) - Assists preschool
parents in packing healthy brown bag lunches for their preschool children
- General
Nutrition Links (Contra Costa County)
- Chronic
Diseases Links (Contra Costa Country)
- UC
ANR web site - Portal Web site for UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
- ANR
Communication Services - ANR online catalog which contains UC-produced
educational materials
- Department
of Nutrition, UC Davis - Seminars, nutrition information, news,
courses
- The
California Policy Research Center - Provides technical assistance
to policymakers, commissions policy-relevant research by UC faculty
and affiliated researchers on major statewide issues, oversees legislatively
mandated research projects and disseminates research findings.
- UCLA
Center for Health Policy Research - Source of health policy information
in California
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