Sentences with phrase «health food advocates»

Himalayan pink rock salt is popular among health food advocates who seek it for the nutritional value of its fairly abundant trace minerals.

The write - ups and anecdotal reports on using virgin coconut oil (VCO) for health purposes has sparked many health food advocates and «foodies» toward using it.

The write - ups and anecdotal reports on using virgin coconut oil (VCO) for health purposes has sparked many health food advocates

The write - ups and anecdotal reports on using virgin coconut oil (VCO) for health purposes has sparked many health food advocates and «foodies» toward using it.

Not exact matches

Fundraiser features food, drinks, online auction and fireside chat with Ottawa philanthropist and mental health advocate Barbara Crook

Whereas many animal charities draw funds primarily from within the movement (e.g., from other animal advocates and animal charities), GFI is seeking to reach potential donors whose primary interests are in environmental protection, the sustainability of the global food system, and human health.

Advocates have documented allegations that include inadequate health care, arbitrary and overuse of solitary confinement, lack of sufficient nutrients and even maggots in the food.

Our members represent a diversity of stakeholders in the local food system including: farmers, food processors, distributors, farmers» markets, retailers, restaurateurs, institutional food buyers, consumers, anti-hunger advocates, children's health advocates, faith communities, agricultural scientists, and sustainability educators.

AFSA is a national alliance of farmers, food entrepreneurs, public health professionals, community gardeners, farmers market coordinators, journalists, researchers and local food advocates who share the vision of a fair food future for all Australians.

The health advocates challenge that view, pointing instead to a significant study in Australia which showed that consumers using a traffic - light label system were «five times more likely to correctly identify healthier food products», compared with the current monochrome daily intake system.

He is also the Chairman of the School Health Advisory Council for Laredo, involved in the Laredo Food Coalition, and an active advocate for anti-hunger efforts through the local food bFood Coalition, and an active advocate for anti-hunger efforts through the local food bfood bank.

That decision has sparked a backlash from health advocates, who say current labelling does not do enough to highlight foods which should be avoided, while grocery manufacturers argue traffic - light labels are simplistic and too blunt an instrument in the fight against obesity.

I am an RN turned researcher, real - food - nibbler and integrative health advocate.

While city schools have improved cafeteria food by restricting trans fats and fried foods and requiring healthier vending machine choices, child health advocates say there is still much to do.

In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

TLT: In the past, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) and children's health advocates generally worked together on school food issues.

Ever since the School Nutrition Association (SNA) stunned child health advocates with its flip - flop on school nutrition (supporting strong standards in 2010, then urging their roll - back two years later), the organization of 55,000 school food professionals has thrown itself into the arms of House Republicans in hopes of pushing through its new agenda.

I'm a big advocate in making baby food, not only because of the health benefits with less preservatives, but also because you save tons of money by doing so.

Public health advocates also applauded the City's adoption, noting that in California they've seen reductions in the consumption of sodium, high fructose corn syrup and processed foods.

I'd like to encourage food bloggers, public health advocates, lunch reformers, etc to enlist parents to make good choices (without guilt) but to also recognize that the deck is stacked against parents.

Creation of new standards, which public health advocates have sought for a decade, has unprecedented support from many of the nation's largest food and beverage companies.

The health advocates acknowledged that the fortification of basic foods can be an important health intervention if properly managed, but had serious concerns about this untested market - led approach in relation to infant and young child feeding.

I share her concern that health advocates will focus too much on marketing healthy snacks to kids instead of taking steps to end the marketing of junk food to kids.

HUMAN Everywhere's mission is to leverage the power of social entrepreneurship to improve the nation's collective health by increasing access to nutrition education and healthful foods while advocating for public policy that contributes to these goals.

While tooling around the Internet one day I stumbled upon the story of Sara Salo, a public health advocate in Bend, Oregon who is going to be biking across the country to bring attention to school food reform.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

Although school meal programs have long provided nourishment to children whose families couldn't afford much food, the meals provided by schools and grant programs are — as health advocates point out — not the healthiest approach to eating.

«WABA believes that programmes related to food and nutrition, health care and development and, especially programmes on infant and young child feeding, should be free from commercial influence and conflicts of interest» advocates Dato Anwar Fazal, WABA Executive Director; «this is especially since optimal breastfeeding, including early, exclusive breastfeeding for six months, and continued adequate breastfeeding for up to two years or longer constitute the primary intervention to prevent child mortality worldwide.»

The infant food companies have special contacts in nutrition and child health divisions of various governments who are their advocates and look after their name and interests.

Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition New York State Assembly NYS Assembly Community Resource Exchange (CRE) SCO Family of Services HCCI Chinese American Planning Council, Inc Heights and Hills Citizen Action of New York ROCitizen New York Association on Independent Living ATLI - Action Together Long Island NYSCAA New York Immigration Coalition Catholic Charities of Chemung & Schuyler Counties CDRC Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS Catholic Charities Professional Staff Congress Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley New York State Network for Youth Success NAMI Albany County Central Federation of Labor Food & Water Watch Jewish Family Service Metro New York Health Care for All Alliance for Positive Change MercyFirst Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, Queens (CIDNY) SiCM — Schenectady Community Ministries Coalition for the Homeless CIDNY Citizen Action of NY PEF Retiree Urban Parhways, Inc Community Food Advocates PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 New York StateWide Senior Action Council Early Care & Learning Council Urban Pathways African Services Committee Day Care Council of New York New York State Community Action Association Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc The Radical Age Movement United Neighborhood Houses

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice will soon begin advocating for environmental pollution to receive the same type of government response as that done for infectious diseases or mass cases of food contamination.

A public health advocate determined how much exercise is required to burn off various typical big game foods.

As more and more research comes to light, many environmentalists and public health advocates are warning consumers to avoid storing any food or drinks in containers made out of # 7 plastic, as there is likelihood that BPA could be part of the mix.

Health advocates stress the merits of antibiotic - free food — but we are not the only beneficiaries.

The root of the problem, according to EWG, is failure on the part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), despite repeated requests from public health and consumer advocates, to implement sunscreen safety standards, some of which were proposed by government scientists more than three decades ago.

For public health advocates, the takeout or, rather, take - home message is that merely promoting the consumption of healthful foods may actually be calorie counterproductive.

For years, consumer advocates and public health experts have fought to limit the use of hormones in cows, and some support a ban on the practice similar to the one in place in Europe, where food regulations are generally more stringent than in the U.S.

Consumer advocates are concerned about growth and sex hormones in the food supply, but it's not clear if these hormones truly are bad for our health

The report comes as public health and environmental advocates continue to push for mandatory labeling of genetically modified food.

I try to advocate against comparing your day on a plate to anybody else's — there's no magic combination of foods that is going to result in health and happiness.

Tamara is a wife, a mother, a Certified Healing Foods Specialist, a blogger, Holistic Health Coach and real food advocate / educator.

Kayla is an RN turned researcher, real food nibbler and integrative health advocate.

Now, Doug spends his time cultivating the land, producing nutrient - dense foods, and advocating for farmers» rights and consumers» health in Vermont and around the nation and the world.

From gut to bone to joint health, thousands of doctors and health advocates people sing the praises of this food.

We have always been advocates for wholesome and organic foods, alternative health, great wine and a good time.

The crazy thing is that if people followed the whole foods plant - based diet advocated by Dr. G. and others, we would save trillions of dollars, get rid of our worst health problems, and solve the global warming problem (since 50 % of greenhouse gasses due to animal «agriculture»).

The skinny on why I advocate nixing processed sugars (used predominately in US) and instead move to foods using maple syrup (or honey)(see the post, TWO WEEK SUGAR ELIMINATION: MIND AND BODY PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES for inspiration in weaning off and eliminating sugar) is that amazing health benefits keep being found for maple syrup.

Paul, since your Perfect health diet advocates some meat eating, (even though some health practitioners encourage little to no meat eating) as well as the use of potatoes, especially sweet potatoes, could these foods might prove to be problematic to people with pre-or cancerous conditions?

Rather than advocating specific levels of carbohydrate or animal fat, I suggested, we should select the mix of foods that works best for us, choosing these foods from a broad menu that compiles the many different smaller menus found in traditional diets associated with vibrant health.