Adults Managing Weight, Childhood Obesity & Too Fat To Fight

I'm always hungry. Are you? It makes it difficult to shop wisely for groceries and to make smart menu decisions for those rare occasions I get to see the inside of a restaurant. Food is such a large part of our lives. We all need to make smart decisions. Here are 2 reports from the CDC's Preventing Chronic Disease journal that discuss eating at restaurants and childhood obesity: 

• Strategies for and Barriers to Managing Weight When Eating at Restaurants 
• Family Structure and Childhood Obesity, Early Childhood Longitudinal Study — Kindergarten Cohort

Did you ever think that Americans would be too fat to join the armed forces? Too Fat to Fight is a report by Mission: Readiness. The subtitle says it all: Retired military leaders want junk food out of America's schools.  

Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals

We're going thru our CD/DVD collection and this title caught my eye. I believe it's something that our nutrition students might find interesting. The same data from our CDs and more is available on the food surveys tab of the USDA website.

This caught my eye, What's in the Foods You Eat Search Tool, 3.0. You can find nutrient profiles for 13,000 commonly eaten foods in the U.S. Very cool!

I'm still finding useful information. Go to the Shopping, Cooking & Meal Planning section for:

• finding healthy foods
  
• reading & understanding food labels
• ethnic cooking
  
• cooking methods & recipes
  
• food storage & preservation
  
• emergency food supplies (do we really need to stock up on bread & milk when we think it might snow?)
  
• FAQs

Lots of great information!

Pineapple & Coffee

Dreaming of a trip to Hawai'i? Get ready by learning more about the food and agriculture produced on the islands. The Hawai'i Agriculture & Food Products Database includes vendors contact information along with websites.