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Health Highlights
Report
National Nutrition Standards for Snack and a la Carte Foods and Beverages in Schools
Report
National Nutrition Standards for Snack and a la Carte Foods and Beverages in Schools
Updating national nutrition standards for snack foods and beverages sold in schools could help students maintain a healthy weight and increase food service revenue, according to a health impact assessment by the Kids’ Safe & Healthful Foods Project and the Health Impact Project.
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Issue Brief
MRSA on the Appalachian Trail: The Story of Steve Weisel
Issue Brief
MRSA on the Appalachian Trail: The Story of Steve Weisel
Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Steve Weisel thought little of the blisters on his feet until he discovered they were infected with life-threatening methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) -- an increasingly common "superbug" that does not respond to first-line antibiotics.
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Cooking Up Change: Student Chefs Creating a Healthy Future for School Food
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Cooking Up Change: Student Chefs Creating a Healthy Future for School Food
On May 21, teams from Chicago, Denver, Jacksonville, Santa Ana, St. Louis and Winston-Salem faced off in the Cooking up Change national finals in Washington, D.C. The next day, students took part in a Congressional briefing on the future of school food, where one dish from each team's meal was presented for lunch.
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Project
What Moms Need to Know About Antibiotic Resistance and Food Animal Production
Project
What Moms Need to Know About Antibiotic Resistance and Food Animal Production
The goal of Moms for Antibiotic Awareness, an initiative of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, is to raise awareness across the country on the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in food animal production and to engage moms and those concerned about their family's health to take action for more judicious use of these drugs.
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Video
Foodborne Illness Victims Ask Congress to Fund Food Safety Law
Foodborne Illness Victims Ask Congress to Fund Food Safety Law
Foodborne illness victim Haylee Bernstein and her mother, Rita, speak out about the importance of funding the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
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Supermoms Take on Washington to Protect Antibiotics
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Supermoms Take on Washington to Protect Antibiotics
Advocates, including several mothers whose children have been impactedd, met in Washington, DC to discuss needed improvements to recently issued FDA guidelines designed to curb the overuse and misuse of antibiotics on industrial farms.
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Video
A Mother Fights Against Antibiotic Resistance
A Mother Fights Against Antibiotic Resistance
Chicago-based mother Everly Macario describes her drive to curb overuse of antibiotics after losing her son to an antibiotic-resistant infection.
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Video
Snack Foods and Beverages in Schools
Snack Foods and Beverages in Schools
Eighty percent of American voters favor national nutrition standards that would limit calories, fat and sodium in snack and a la carte foods sold in U.S. schools.
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Issue Brief
Antibiotic Innovation: The Threat and the Pipeline
Issue Brief
Antibiotic Innovation: The Threat and the Pipeline
The Superbug Threat explores the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and its impact on human health, as well as the shrinking pipeline of new antibiotics.
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