Sentences with phrase «nutrition program in the country»

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When not on air, she is involved in several organizations including Common Threads, an organization that creates comprehensive and impactful nutrition and cooking programs that operates in thirteen cities across the country and has taught over one hundred thousand families what it means to cook for life.

Herbalife is launching the Herbalife24 Program for Australia and New Zealand as it seeks to boost its sports nutrition products in the two countries.

Because the school lunch program is a key area where our children get their nutrition, why not look how other countries successfully feed their kids in the school lunch program as examples to use for improvement.

Highlighting positive stories about the great things going on in school cafeterias helps us in many ways: providing inspiration, connecting school nutrition professionals from across the country, and promoting those programs and individuals who are taking the extra step to make their school nutrition program the very best it can be.

Children across the country are learning how to make better snack and meal choices in schools with the help of engaging nutrition education programs, from farm - to - school programs and cooking lessons to student taste parties.

SNA's Keys to Excellence is a state of the art online self - assessment tool that allows you to compare your school nutrition program's performance with other districts in your area and around the country.

At the same time, Gene White, a former head of the California school - lunch program and SNA president, said in an interview that she had signed the former SNA presidents» letter defending the healthier school meals because she couldn't possibly urge developing countries to enact nutrition standards if the United States pulls back on its own.

We hosted more than a dozen events in 2011 — including a series of meetings in Washington, DC, and end - of - project gatherings in seven countries — to celebrate accomplishments, share experiences and resources, and discuss future directions for nutrition programming.

Promoting public policies and federal child nutrition programs and eliminating barriers to service to these programs is an investment in our country's future that I am willing to make.

They focus both on improving and expanding the nation's nutrition programs, and bolstering the economy and strengthening supports for working families in order to move more out of poverty, the root cause of hunger in this country.

After five years of maternal, infant, and young child nutrition programming around the world, USAID's Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project completed activities in most countries in December 2011.

Marco Borges, the author of The 22 - Day Revolution: The Plant - Based Program That Will Transform Your Body, Reset Your Habits, and Change Your Life and Power Moves: The Four Motions to Transform Your Body for Life, is one of the most sought after fitness and plant - based nutrition experts in the country.

Many attendees of the Weston A. Price Foundation's recent Wise Traditions 2005 conference were surprised and confused to hear Dr. Noel Solomons, director of the Guatemala - based CeSSIAM International Nutrition Foundation, a heroic program to improve vitamin A nutrition in third world countries, recommend a mere 800 international units (IU) per day of preformed vitamin A from animal foods — scientifically called «retinol» — and warn that, based on recent findings from the Nurses» Health Study, intakes as low as 1500 IU per day are harmful to skeletal health.3

The latest in scientific research from the country s pre-eminent anti-aging and sports nutrition specialists has informed the development of the EnergyFirst product line and the EnergyFirst program.

The federal government also provided almost $ 7 billion in grants annually to the 2,700 public and private Head Start programs across the country, which offer one million low - income children and their families education, health, and nutrition services.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Next week, approximately 900 school nutrition professionals from across the country will gather in Washington, D.C. to urge Congress to strengthen school nutrition programs for the 30 million students they serve each day.

More than 50,000 public schools across the country use Title X funds to provide transportation services, educational services for which the child or youth meets the eligibility criteria, programs in vocational and technical education, school nutrition programs, and to prepare teachers to deal with the unique challenges the homeless student must confront to attain academic achievement.

To address these challenges, The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), the official nonpartisan organization for cities of 30,000 or more, and Mars Petcare, a world leader in pet nutrition and pet care products, launched the BETTER CITIES FOR PETS ™ Grant Program March 18, a nationwide initiative designed to help cities promote, support, and expand pet - friendly programs and policies in communities across the country.