| The Dannon Company Announces 2008 Dannon Next Generation Nutrition(TM ...
(CSRwire) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - January 31, 2008 — The Dannon Company, Inc. announced today that applications for its Dannon Next Generation NutritionTM Grants are now available at www.dannon.com. Four individual grants of $30,000 will support childhood nutrition education programs and will be awarded to one program nurturing healthy eating habits among children in each of the four communities where a Dannon facility is located – Salt Lake County, UT; Tarrant County, TX; Westchester County, NY and Shelby, Mercer, Darke and Auglaize counties in Ohio. Applications are due by March 31, 2008. The Dannon Company established the Dannon Next Generation NutritionTM Grants in 2006 to promote childhood nutrition education in communities where Dannon facilities are located. Each organization receiving a Dannon grant develops a program that nurtures healthy eating habits among children in the community and encourages children to develop life-long habits for good nutrition and exercise.
Study Spotlights 'Exercise-Friendly' Day-Care Centers
"Childhood obesity is an epidemic that threatens the future health of our nation. We know that about 57 percent of all 3- to 5-year-olds in the United States attend child-care centers, so it's important to understand what factors will encourage them to be more active, and, hopefully, less likely to become obese," study co-author Dianne Ward said in a statement. Ward is director of the intervention and policy division in the nutrition department at University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. In their study, Ward's team evaluated the physical activity levels of children at 20 child-care centers in North Carolina. They found that children did more moderate and vigorous physical activity if the child-care center: had more portable play equipment, such as balls, jump ropes, hula hoops and riding toys; offered more opportunities for indoor and outdoor active play; and provided physical activity training and education for staff and students.
The Junior League Launches Third Annual Childhood Obesity And ...
The Association of Junior Leagues International Inc. (AJLI) will launch its third annual Junior Leagues' Kids in the Kitchen education initiative on childhood obesity and nutrition this March, in conjunction with National Nutrition Month in the U.S. and Canada. The well-established initiative, which helps communities across four countries address the consequences of childhood obesity and poor nutrition, will continue to help youngsters learn about healthy eating and involve them in the preparation of their own meals and snacks. Exclusive kids media partner, Cartoon Network, will support the program with on-air public service announcements, League-wide distribution of grassroots event-activation kits and an online animated educational game tied to the network's "Get Animated" pro-social platform.
Consequences of GM Crop Contamination ‘Are Set to Worsen’
The consequences of contamination between GM crops and non-GM varieties will be much more serious with the next generation of GM crops, an influential group of US scientists has warned. Mixing between GM and non-GM varieties has already caused serious economic losses for producers in lost sales and exports. But the consequences of mixing will be much more serious with new crops that are altered to produce pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals, the scientists argue. The crops could harm human health and be toxic to wild animals. "What would be the impact societally, economically if for example, cornflakes were contaminated by some sort of drug or chemical? I think it would be a vast impact economically," said Karen Perry Stillerman, senior food and environment programme analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Business ban bill clears Senate with big margin
A bill to ban lawmakers from doing business with the state won lopsided Senate approval Friday after backers soothed objections raised earlier this week. The measure, Senate Bill 1, cleared the Senate 36-1. It next faces action in the House and is one of the key bills in Gov. Bobby Jindal’s special session ethics package. The lone "no" vote was cast by Sen. Derrick Shepherd, D-New Orleans. Sens. Yvonne Dorsey, D-Baton Rouge and Rob Marionneaux, D-Grosse Tete were absent. Under current law, lawmakers, their spouses and their companies can enter into contracts with the state that are negotiated or competitively bid. The bill would generally ban that. The immediate families of lawmakers, which include brothers and sisters, could only do business with the state through competitively bid contracts.
Stop Chasing High-Tech Cheaters
This is in an impoverished, inner city school, mind you; 92% of those kids went on to college. I receive emails from many of them still, saying that the education they received FROM US (with our pathetic technology) prepared them better for the rigor of academia they have met in university than anything they could imagine. Possibly, they say this because they were not exposed to, and can therefore not imagine, anything else. Or because they were my pets then, hence the emails now. But the fact that 92% of them went on with their educations, and 75% of them stayed in higher ed (as opposed to those who flunk out after failing to make it out of their Bridge program), I think, says something. 2) I now teach in a district with a generous complement of technology and a strong commitment to training our kids to work in a world whose technology does not even exist yet.
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Gen Y Guru: Consultant Bea Fields Writes Book on Younger Generation
In May 2006, Bea Fields got a call from an out-of-state company president who wondered why his younger workers were showing up in flip-flops and T-shirts. Because Fields is an executive coach, he wanted her to come to come work with them. They were good, smart workers, he said. But they looked sloppy. They were narcissistic and indifferent toward their work. They had a much more carefree attitude, which affected their work and interaction with fellow employees. "I didn't really want to do it at first," says Fields, who runs her own business, Bea Fields Companies Inc., in Southern Pines. "The whole idea just sounded like something that wasn't yet in my area of expertise." But she had .
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