There’s no harm in just trying a green smoothie! You know that greens are true superfoods; they are full of nutrition, And most of the time busy Moms don’t have the time to make multi-step cooked dishes during the day! Green smoothies provide an easy and quick way to improve your nutrition with a short prep time. Remember one cup of a green smoothie can provide several servings of vegetables and fruits and other vitamins and minerals. How to Make a Green Smoothie To accommodate your tastes, start by adding just a little bit of greens to a tasty fruit smoothie. Frozen blueberries will mask that green color for you!
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Nutrition program earns Purdue Extension Hancook Award
7) during a luncheon at the annual Purdue Extension Professional Development Conference. The RECIPE for Growing Healthy Children program, an effort between Purdue Extension and the Indiana Department of Education, implements training for child care food service staff on planning and preparing meals and snacks to comply with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The acronym of RECIPE stands for the program’s six workshop sections: role models for children; an environment that encourages healthy behaviors; nutritious meals and snacks; involving children in food and fun; partnering with parents; and enjoying eating together. Team members are: Lisa Graves, College of Health and Human Sciences Extension specialist; Barbara Mayfield, HHS continuing lecturer; and HHS educators Jan Dougan of Dubois County, Annette Lawler of Harrison County, Inger Friend of Steuben County, Teresa Witkoske of Wabash County and Christina Ferroli of Marion County. “In just a few short years this program has shown improvement in the mealtime environment of children participating in child care programs,” Angela Abbott, program leader and assistant director of Purdue Extension in HHS, wrote in a letter supporting the nomination of the team for the award. “This program is an important part of Purdue Extension’s focus to deliver comprehensive, community-based health and nutrition programs.” The award is named in honor of Ann Hancook, a Purdue Extension program leader who died in 1993. Sponsors are the Indiana Extension Educators Association, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Specialists Association and the Alpha Lambda chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi, the Extension honor society. Other awards presented by the Extension Specialists Association are: * Team Award: To MyPlate and Beyond. Members of the team are: Connie Weaver, Angie Abbott, Melissa Maulding, Lisa Graves and Donna Vandergraff of the College of Health and Human Sciences, and Gretchen Bertolet, Rob Snorek, Rebecca Stephens, Jason Thorne, Jeff Rollins, Kevin Smith, Mike Weber and Danica Kirkpatrick of the College of Agriculture.
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Nutrition a “desperately neglected” aspect of mother and baby health
The reasons for this neglect are understandable but not justifiable. The World Health Organisation (WH) estimates that two-thirds of the nearly seven million child deaths in developing countries each year are directly caused by infectious diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria and that undernutrition contributes to 45 per cent of these deaths. Professor Black spoke about his research into the interventions to reduce undernutrition in mothers and young children. Professor Lawrence Haddad of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University also spoke at the seminar, focusing on interventions that can be taken regarding stunting, where children are too short for their age. He pointed out: Agriculture does have the potential to dramatically accelerate stunting declines. We must realise that potential, because nutrition specific programmes on their own will, at best, reduce stunting by 20 per cent. The seminar will also highlight some of the ground-breaking research being undertaken by researchers in Trinity.
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