FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Spinal-pelvic stabilizer testing, bone density testing, body composition analysis and more will be offered free as part of the Life Extension Nutrition Center one-year anniversary Healthy Living Fair beginning Friday, September 7 and running until Saturday, September 15 at the Life Extension Nutrition Center. The Nutrition Center is located at 5990 N. Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale.

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The entire week offers a wide-range of free health lectures, interactive forums, panel discussions and health screenings designed to make the South Florida community aware of how to live healthier longer. The health fair gets started Friday, September 7, at 6:30 p.m. with an exhibition of sports nutrition manufacturers featuring the latest products for weekend sports enthusiasts and serious athletes. Jaime Mass, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., will discuss nutrition to fuel your inner athlete.

Saturday, September 8, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., features health screenings, health exhibits and a focus on dietary supplements with plenty of product samplings. Kimmi Le, Life Extension pharmacist, will present a lecture on the ABC's of hormone replacement therapy.

Pets will be included too. Monday, September 10, at 6:30 p.m. brings a healthy pet forum and a lecture about natural health for pets by Bill Piechock of the Pet Deli.

Tuesday, September 11, 6:30 p.m. features Dave Walker, N.D. discussing how to de-stress from cellular inflammation and combatting inflammation through diet.

Wednesday, September 12 brings Life Extension's Michael A. Smith, M.D. talking about gut health and the link between gut health and age-related diseases like cardiovascular disease and chronic inflammation, and foods and supplements to help maintain a healthy gut.

Thursday, September 13, at 6:30 p.m. is the stress management forum featuring free exhibits , focusing on yoga, meditation, massage holistic health and a free lecture by Judith Thompson, N.D. discussing the latest buzz about stress.

On Friday, September 14, at 6:30 p.m. it's ballroom dancing night with free merengue dance demos and lessons, plus a lecture on how you can dance your way to a longer life.

Saturday, September 15, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., offers an array of South Florida health services with over 20 health and fitness organizations providing wellness information and demonstrations. A few featured services are chiropractic, skin fitness and yoga.

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Disney is pushing healthier food options. But will kids bite?

"With this new initiative, Disney is doing what no major media company has ever done before in the U.S.--and what I hope every company will do going forward."

That is Michelle Obama's view on Disney's new guidelines to curb junk food advertising. It's publicity that money can't buythe First Lady simultaneously heralding your company as a leader in its field and inviting other companies to follow suit. The decision clearly comes with political heft behind it, but how meaningful of a change the company is making remains in question.

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Under the new guidelines, all food and beverages advertised, sponsored, or promoted on outlets including the Disney Channel, Radio Disney, and Disney websites will have to conform to limits on areas like caloric, sodium, and sugar content.

"We've been looking at the Disney criteria they're using, and they're a little bit better than the criteria that the food industry already uses, but they're not great. So by no means will this limit children's exposure to junk food," says Jennifer Harris, director of marketing initiatives at Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.

She points to the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, a program in which some of the nation's largest food companies have come together to self-regulate the products advertised to children. Harris notes that the Disney guidelines differ little from the CFBAI guidelines already in place.

For example, Disney's new guidelines allow meals marketed to children to have no more than 600 caloriesthe same limit established by the CFBAI. Disney and CFBAI also both allow a six-ounce yogurt to have a maximum of 170 calories. Likewise, both allow 350 calories for a main dish or entree.

To be fair, cutting calories is still cutting calories; the company allows slightly lower counts of calories for several other foods, like cereals (130 per ounce versus CFBAI's 150 per serving for most children's cereals) and juice (140 for eight ounces versus CFBAI's 160 per serving), as well as "mini-meals" (400 versus CFBAI's 450 for "small meals").

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Written By: Patmei Bello Ruivivar Tuesday, 31 July 2012 Category: Lifestyle

As part of Davao Citys Nutrition Month celebration, a summit of Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS) from the 182 barangays in the city was held last Friday, July 27, 2012 at the DMMA gym in Tigatto.

With the summit theme of BNS Katambayayong sa Syudad sa Dabaw, the BNS was tasked to be the partners of the city in implementing the Davao Food Revolution in all barangays. A joint program of the City Government of Davao and the Mindanao Commission on Women (MCW), the Davao Food Revolution is an advocacy campaign for access to affordable healthy food in public schools and low-income communities.

To feed their children healthy food at home, parents must have ready access to stores that sell affordable healthy food. Unfortunately, neighborhood stores in low income communities tend to sell a lot of processed food and junk food. Even the street food available are not really nutritious or even prepared safely and hygienically.

According to the BNS volunteers at the summit, children will choose healthy food over junk food if it is readily available, affordable, and convenient to eat. So they all got excited when the MCW Mothers for Peace Organic Food Cart came to the summit to let the BNS volunteers taste the healthy food made of organic ingredients. The food samples served were camote binangkal, malunggay pulvoron, camote tops juice, and ginger with lemongrass juice made of fresh, local and organic ingredients from healthy recipes developed by the City Agriculture Office.

Healthy food need not be expensive if people grow their own food in their home gardens and community gardens. The Food Revolution encourages people to have control over how their food is produced, prepared, sold, and consumed. It discourages dependence on big corporations that mass produce food that may not necessarily be healthy. With the rising cost of health care, it is wise for the city to invest in nutrition by providing funds to child nutrition programs, making fruits and vegetables available in school canteens, implement wellness policies and expand nutrition education.

The healthy food carts can also be a social enterprise for women in low-income communities. MCW has set up a Mothers for Peace Fund to support women micro-entrepreneurs who want to engage in the production and retail of healthy food in schools and communities.

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I read this week that new nutrition rules go into effect this fall for school cafeterias. For the most part, this is probably a good thing, given the fact that a lot of kids these days are carrying way too much weight for their age.

However, it is my humble opinion that proper nutrition for children should probably start at home long before they enroll in school. Given what I saw at the ballpark this summer, it's no surprise that some children have developed a bit of a weight problem by the time they hit first grade.

I watched in amazement a few weeks ago as a "portly" mother pushed her "husky" child in a stroller into the ballpark. The first thing Mom did was pop open a Mountain Dew and poured it into her son's sippy cup. The next thing to come out of the diaper bag was a bag of Oreos. Mom went to the concession stand and bought a big mess of chips and cheese and what looked to me like a foot-long Snicker bar. Of course, they shared.

Inning three It was back to the concession stand for another foot-long candy bar and a bag of popcorn with triple-extra butter and a 24 ounce bottle of fully-leaded Mountain Dew. Is it any wonder this child might develop a weight problem by the time he hits the public school system?

When I attended grade school in Carmi, Ill., we had a wonderful cook. Jo Colson and her staff paid close attention to the kids that came through the cafeteria line. She knew exactly who needed better nutrition and more calories, and who needed to watch their waistline.

I don't remember having free or reduced price meals back then. If you didn't have lunch money, you were given an opportunity to work in the cafeteria to get your meals free. If I had a nickel for every meal tray I scraped and every table I helped clear when I was in grade school, I'd probably be a millionaire today. But I had plenty to eat.

Unlike today, I was quite skinny back then. Some people said I was so skinny, I didn't cast a shadow. Mrs. Colson saw to it that I had plenty to eat, and never went home from school hungry.

It's certainly not my place to tell the Mountain Dew and Oreo packin' mama that she's turning her son into a porker. She will have to figure that out for herself.

But, here's why I think the new school cafeteria nutrition rules that go into effect this year are a good thing. It is a fact that for many children, the meals they get at school will be the best and most nutritional food they'll get all day long. If they get good food in school, and we can teach them good eating habits at a very young age, perhaps their children will be even healthier.

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Elite sport dietitian examines the benefits of nutritional supplements

Windsor, ON--Nutritional supplements claim to improve athletic performance, but not all supplements are created equal. According to Nutrition Australia life member Glenn Cardwell, athletes vary greatly in their response to training, environmental conditions, psychological barriers, and nutritional supplements, which makes it difficult to assess the value of proposed ergogenic aids. "Improvement is not proof that a supplement works. It may be just a convenient coincidence," says Cardwell, author of the forthcoming new edition of Gold Medal Nutrition (Human Kinetics, May 2012). "Proof only comes when the same result can be repeated time and time again."

Before taking a nutritional supplement Cardwell advises assessing its potential value by asking nine vital questions.

"Based on current knowledge, the best regimen for achieving optimal performance is to avoid excess body fat, drink plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration, eat enough carbohydrate to fuel your training program, eat adequate protein for muscle growth and repair, and eat for good health," Cardwell says. "Most nutritional supplements do not enhance sports performance in well-nourished athletes."

For more information on Gold Medal Nutrition, 5E or other nutrition resources, visit http://www.HumanKinetics.com or call 800-465-7301.

Product Description Gold Medal Nutrition is a comprehensive manual covering the areas that most concern athletes, including what and when to eat and drinkand why. The book explains how to use nutrition to maximize sport performance. It includes information on determining the best supplements to use as well as athlete-specific eating tips.

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A dark cloud has been hovering over the labor market since the financial collapse, but there has been one consistent bright spot for job seekers: health care. Add to that rising obesity rates and soaring health-care costs, and the industry shows no signs of slowing. Over the next eight years, employment of dieticians and nutritionists is expected to grow 20% faster than the average for all other occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experts say that such rapid growth in the field will lead to more demand and higher salaries for workers in the nutrition space.

The perfect storm has been brewing for a while, says Ann Kulze, nutrition expert, family physician, and author of Dr. Anns Eat Right for Life. There has been this flood of dazzling science telling us that diet and great health and diet and disease are inextricably linked.

In addition to increased interest on the clinical level, theres also more demand from consumers interested in improving their health, she says. Record numbers of people now have diet-related diseases, and we know that one of the most powerful triggers to change eating behavior is getting a diagnosis. If your doctor tells you that you had a heart attack or have diabetes as a result of your diet, its a very powerful motivator.

But motivation is one thing, execution is another, and many consumers are unsure of how to maintain a healthy diet. It doesnt help that the foods and products that are heavily marketed tend to be heavily processed and not the healthiest option, making it difficult for consumers to separate food commercialism from healthy eating.

According to the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundations2012Food & Health Survey, 52% of Americans say that doing their own income taxes would be easier than knowing how to eat healthy. Of those surveyed, 76% report changing nutritional guidelines have made it harder to know how to eat right.

Ten years ago, we were told to eat margarine. Today, we are told its horrible for us, says Kulze. The food pyramid used to tell us we needed 11 servings of grains a day. Are you kidding me? Were looking at a situation where most people want to eat better, but they simply dont know how to do it.

The increase in jobs in the nutrition and dietetics space is a direct result of more schools, corporations and health insurance companies hiring health professionals to educate students, employees and clients, says Chad Oakley, president and chief operating officer at human resources consultancy Charles Aris.

The demand for nutrition talent is growing dramatically on a global scale, he says. Nutrition has not been an oversubscribed career path so you have a low supply base of professionals for something that is suddenly experiencing a high demand.

Today, nutritionists are becoming a very regular part of most health care companies portfolios, according to Oakley. They are hired to design menus for people with dietary restrictions and help manage diets for people who have certain chronic conditions.

Some health care companies have a huge team of nutritionists that do nothing besides think of menus for people and breakdown the ingredients in every product you can think of, Oakley says.

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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Increased obesity and poor nutrition may be fueling the increase in kidney stones in U.S. adults, a food expert says.

"It is possible that better reporting and treatment options for kidney stones may have contributed to the numbers, there are other factors that might lend themselves to the development of kidney stones in children and adults -- the increase in obesity and poor nutrition," Phil Lempert, a food industry analyst, trend watcher and creator of supermarketguru.com, said in a statement. "Low fluid intake and high intakes of sodium as well as animal fat and proteins can contribute to kidney stones as well."

A study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Rand Corp. found the number of U.S. adults getting kidney stones nearly doubled since 1994.

"Hydration and a proper diet are the best ways to prevent stone formation. Drinking fresh lemon in water may help reduce the risk of kidney stone formation," Lempert said in a statement. "Lemon juice increases the level of citrate in the urine, which in turn may prevent the formation of kidney stones."

For some, avoiding certain high-oxalate foods may aid in preventing kidney stones including: Swiss chard, rhubarb, spinach, beets, wheat germ, soybean crackers, peanuts, okra, chocolate and sweet potatoes. Medium-oxalate foods include grits, grapes, celery, green pepper, red raspberries, fruitcake, strawberries, marmalade and liver, the Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation said.

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NEWPORT BEACH, CA--(Marketwire -06/27/12)- Adia Nutrition, Inc. (ADIA) is proud to announce the launch of a revolutionary new product called Adia Slim. It is believed to be the first probiotic beverage with an appetite suppressant in the $61 billion diet and weight loss industry.

Adia Slim is a raspberry lemonade flavored beverage powder which contains LuraLean. LuraLean is a fiber from the root of a Japanese plant called Konjac. The fiber expands in your stomach shortly after you drink it, and gives you a feeling of fullness so you eat less.

This fiber is then combined with probiotics to make sure the food you eat is then digested more efficiently.

"Adia Slim is a revolutionary step in weight management," said Adia CEO Wen Peng. "We believe that Adia Slim gives dieters a tool to help control the quantity of food people consume. This tool, combined with diet and exercise should show results. As with any health program, please speak to your doctor in connection with any lifestyle change. Like all our Adia products, Adia Slim contains convenient and shelf stable 'On the Go' probiotics that require no refrigeration together with essential vitamins and minerals. Adia Nutrition are the perfect products for the busy 'on the go' family, from mom and dad to the kids."

Adia Slim can be ordered by calling 1-877-207-6321 or by visiting http://www.adianutrition.com to order online or find the local retailer near you.

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About Adia Nutrition, Inc. (ADIA) is a company specializing in shelf stable probiotics. Currently, Adia offers five flavors of probiotic powder and two flavors of probiotic chews. Adia sells their products across the country in independent pharmacies, health food stores, fitness centers and grocery store chains. In states and countries where Adia does not yet have retail distribution partners you can find Adia online. According to a market research report titled 'Probiotics Market,' published by Markets and Markets (www.marketsandmarkets.com), the global probiotics market is expected to be worth US$ 32.6 billion by 2014. Moreover, the global market is expected to record a CAGR of 12.6%.

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Newswise The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University today announced a Master of Nutrition in Science and Policy (MNSP) degree program that combines intensive on-campus residencies in Boston with online learning. The blended learning program will enroll its first cohort of students in the fall of 2013. The Friedman Schools blended learning degree is the only masters degree in nutrition in the United States that combines week-long residencies on campus with online learning.

The blended learning format will allow students from around the world to continue living and working where they choose while they study at one of the premier research universities in the United States, said Robin Kanarek Ph.D., interim dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Nutrition is a vitally important field, and the Friedman School is committed to educating and training future leaders who can create new knowledge and apply and disseminate evidence-based information.

For approximately one week each semester, students and Tufts faculty will meet at the Friedman School in Boston for a residency period that includes interactive coursework, lectures, seminars and collaboration among students of diverse backgrounds. These on-campus residencies will facilitate hands-on learning and in-person meetings among students and between students and faculty. Following each residency session, the coursework continues in a highly facilitated online environment, building on the knowledge and relationships developed on campus. Students may attend the program full-time or part-time.

The combination of online and on-campus learning was first developed by the Friedman School to bring graduate-level nutrition education to students in the United Arab Emirates and surrounding countries. The experience our faculty members have acquired in blended learning has given us a unique ability to educate students wherever they live and advance the schools mission of improving the wellbeing of persons, communities and populations worldwide, said Lynne Ausman, D.Sc., R.D., MSNP program director and Saqr Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi Professor in International Nutrition at the Friedman School.

The Master of Nutrition Science degree is part of the Friedman Schools fully accredited academic offerings and is taught by faculty from the schools campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Admissions, curriculum, and tuition information, as well as a video and downloadable brochure, are available online at http://nutrition.tufts.edu/mnsp.

The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University is the only independent school of nutrition in the United States. The schools centers, which focus on questions relating to famine, hunger, poverty, and communications, are renowned for the application of scientific research to national and international policy. The Schools web site is http://nutrition.tufts.edu

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JAKARTA--(BUSINESSWIRE)-- Cargill Feed & Nutrition (CFN) is a market leader in providing feeding programs and on-farm solutions to Indonesias growing aquaculture industry.

Having recently completed a comprehensive assessment by Intertek, an independent accredited certification body, the Cargill plant in Medan, Indonesia is the first in the group to be awarded the GlobalGAP certification for Compound Feed Manufacturing.

The GlobalGAP Standard for Compound Feed Manufacturing Version 2.1 is a reference for Good Manufacturing Practice and covers all aspects of feed manufacturing from raw material sourcing to the finished feed products used on farm. Feed sourced from a GlobalGAP certified plant is a requirement for aquaculture production, and is a demonstration of Cargills commitment to provide safe and nutritional feed solutions to its customers as part of a responsible food supply chain.

Erwin Sanusi, Cargills Total Quality Management Manager, commented: Achieving the GlobalGAP standard is aligned with Cargills strategy to support our customers need in improve food safety and promoting sustainable sourcing practices. Our manufacturing processes are built upon best practices from the Cargill group for safety, security and traceability.

Beate Heidorn, Certification Manager, Intertek Food Services, stated that her team was impressed with the overall professionalism and clear understanding of food safety that the Cargill employees showed. Earning the GlobalGAP Standard for Compound Feed Manufacturing demonstrates the strengths of Cargills internal Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and its employees discipline in fully supporting these. This achievement shows the positive manner in which the entire business collaborates internally as well as externally with outside stakeholders.

About Cargill in Indonesia

Cargill began doing business in Indonesia in 1974 by establishing a feed mill in Bogor, West Java. Today, Cargill - which is headquartered in Jakarta - has over 10,000 employees and offices, manufacturing plants and facilities throughout the country. Business units comprise animal nutrition, cocoa, grain and oilseeds, palm oil, and sugar. Cargill is a responsible corporate citizen of Indonesia, and its local programs foster responsible and sustainable development, help protect the environment and nourish the people and possibilities that reside in local communities. For more information visit http://www.cargill.co.id

About Cargill Feed & Nutrition Indonesia

Cargill Feed Nutrition (CFN) is one of Cargill Business Unit in Indonesia. It is one of players in providing feeding programs and on-farm solutions to Indonesias livestock and aquaculture industries. CFN, Indonesia operates six modern feed mills producing high quality customized feed products. The companys portfolio includes poultry (layer and broiler), swine, dairy and aquaculture feeding programs and on-farm technical support.

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The new federal law governing school nutrition means smaller slices of pizza and possibly higher prices for students in the Central Bucks School District.

To comply with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, pizza slices are now 2 inches smaller, said Alicia Kent, senior director at Aramark, which provides food service to the districts schools.

Aramark officials reviewed the new law and its impact during a school board meeting on Monday evening.

The 14-inch pizza slices are necessary, Kent said, to comply with the maximum calorie and grain restrictions in the new law, which went into effect this year and will be fully phased in over three years.

In addition, she said, if a student fails to select a fruit or vegetable as part of his or her meal, the cost will be higher than a student who does make that part of the meal. Thus, a student selecting a slice of pizza and milk will pay more than a student purchasing pizza, an apple and milk.

If they dont take a fruit or vegetable they are charged a la cart pricing, Kent said. Theres a little bit of sticker shock when they are coming through the line and learning what the new requirements are.

There may be a monetary impact on the district as well, she said, noting that the district will not receive reimbursement for student meals that do not meet the new U.S. Department of Agriculture requirements.

These are really significant changes of what the students are allowed to eat, she said.

Among the changes required are the use of only fat-free flavored milk, decreased sodium levels and at least half the grains offered must be whole grain. It also requires different nutrient levels for different age groups.

The new rules will be challenging for students, she said, and require education of students and parents.

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SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwire - Nov 12, 2012) - Vemma Nutrition Company was recognized with seven awards in the prestigious MarCom Awards competition. Vemma was honored with four Platinum awards, the competition's highest designation, and three Gold awards, recognizing the company's outstanding creative achievements in marketing and communications. Only 18% of the entries receive the coveted Platinum award.

The competition has grown to perhaps the largest of its kind in the world, with over 6,000 entries from throughout the United States, Canada and several other countries in the 2012 competition. A look at the winners shows a range in size from individual communicators to media conglomerates and Fortune 500 companies.

The recently released Vemma 2.0 and Vemma Bod-e mobile apps were both recognized in the awards -- Vemma 2.0 with Platinum, and Vemma Bod-e with Gold. The Vemma 2.0 app allows Brand Partners to prospect, present and communicate in real-time and gives the Vemma brand immense exposure. The Vemma Bod-e 2.0 app features Heidi and Chris Powell, TV Celebrity Transformation Specialists and Vemma Bod-e Spokespeople. The app coaches participants on when and what to eat throughout the day, provides daily video tips and inspirational messages, and helps participants stay on track when they are away from home by suggesting healthy options at the nation's top 20 restaurant chains.

In addition to being recognized for the Vemma app and Bod-e app, the company was also recognized as an award winner for the following submissions:

"Being recognized for our marketing and communications work in several categories is both tremendously humbling and extremely motivating," said Mark Patterson, Vemma VP of Marketing and Brand Development. "We are driven by our mission of people helping people, and these awards demonstrate our commitment to putting cutting-edge tools in the hands of Brand Partners worldwide."

MarCom Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The Association oversees awards and recognition programs, provides judges and sets standards for excellence. A complete list of Platinum winners can be found on the MarCom Awards website at http://www.marcomawards.com.

About Vemma Founded in 2004 by BK Boreyko, Vemma Nutrition Company is rapidly growing as one of the premier industry leaders specializing in premium liquid nutrition. Every day, thousands of people join the company's mission to make a positive difference in the lives of others through the sharing of the clinically studied Vemma formula. The Vemma brands -- including Verve, a healthy energy drink -- coupled with the company's rewarding business opportunity, help people to live a better quality of life, both physically and financially. Vemma is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, and distributes its products through a global network of independent Brand Partners.

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BAGUIO CITY officials congratulated Monica Sicat of City Camp Proper last Monday for bagging second place as the Best Barangay Nutrition Scholar among 38,000 barangay nutrition scholars nationwide.

Sicat was declared first runner-up with a P70,000 cash prize awarded by President Benigno Aquino III and was given a laptop by Agham party-list representative Angelo Palmones in a recognition program at the Philippine International Convention Center last November 9.

Mayor Mauricio Domogan, who accompanied Sicat in the awarding, said Sicats award is a triumph for the citys campaign against malnutrition.

He also congratulated the Baguio Health Departments nutrition division who helped choose Sicat among more than 100 barangay nutrition scholars in the city.

The award was given by the National Nutrition Council for the top performers in nutrition program implementation, exemplary contributions in nutrition program management and delivery of nutrition services for 2011.

The National Nutrition Evaluation Teams led by Assistant Secretary of Department of Health and NNC executive director Maria Bernardita Flores visited Baguio last August 24 to validate Sicats performance and also validated around 25 local government units vying for various national nutrition awards.

The last leg of evaluation included the validation visits to the top eight Barangay Nutrition Scholars who bested more than 38,000 BNSs nationwide.

The evaluation was comprehensive with actual weight validation of selected preschool children and BNS assessment through written examination. Throughout the day long evaluation, support was also given to the Barangay Nutrition Council headed by City Camp Proper village chief Aurora Abellera.

The 2011 National Outstanding Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS) award went to Lina Guerrero of Barangay Concepcion of Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay. She received P100,000 cash prize, a trophy and a scholarship grant from Agham party-list.

Meanwhile, the second runner up is Ma. Digna Tayong from Barangay Mainit, Nabunturan, Compostela Valley receiving P50,000. All top eight BNS finalists each received a netbook computer, also from Agham Partylist.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Physicians representing the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) today issued a position statement strongly recommending enhanced medical doctor training for and renewed focus on treatment of patients clinical nutrition needs.

At a time when the prevalence of nutrition-related illnesses is escalating significantly, both with ambulatory and hospitalized patients, many medical societies are reporting an inadequate number of physician members trained in this important specialty, said M. Molly McMahon, M.D., FACE, professor of medicine with Mayo Clinic Rochesters Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, Diabetes, Nutrition and Internal Medicine, co-chair of the AACE Nutrition Committee and lead author of the position paper. Healthy nutrition is important for health promotion, disease prevention and disease treatment. We wish to develop focused nutrition education for endocrinologists, highlight the value of physician nutrition expertise, and address barriers in clinical nutrition practices to enhance clinical outcomes.

AACE is proposing a four-pronged strategy to address the problem: coordination of CME-accredited advanced nutrition education and training for clinical endocrinologists; an accompanying certification process; collaboration across the many medical disciplines and organizations with interests in nutrition to foster a critical mass of expertise across specialties; and widespread recognition and support of new models for physician-directed nutritional practices that will focus on the value created by such teams as relates to clinic outcomes and quality of life issues.

The statement is published in the September/October 2012 edition of the associations peer-revised medical journal Endocrine Practice (https://www.aace.com/files/position-statements/nutrition.pdf).

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The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) represents more than 6,500 endocrinologists in the United States and abroad. AACE is the largest association of clinical endocrinologists in the world. The majority of AACE members are certified in Endocrinology and Metabolism and concentrate on the treatment of patients with endocrine and metabolic disorders including diabetes, thyroid disorders, osteoporosis, growth hormone deficiency, cholesterol disorders, hypertension and obesity. For more information about AACE, visit the AACE website atwww.aace.com, become a fan on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/theaaceor follow AACE on Twitter atwww.twitter.com/theaace.

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Lucknow, Nov. 19 -- Ponty Chadha's death may cost his group the Rs. 9,000-crore contract to supply food under the supplementary nutrition food programme in Uttar Pradesh.

Sources in the child development and nutrition department said, "To maintain his grip over nutrition supply, Ponty Chadha ensured that the contract was tailor-made for his company and the rivals were automatically eliminated. The technical bid that opened last week was finalised in the favour of Chadha's Great Value Food. However, his death has forced the state government to re-think."

A senior officer said, "The opening of the financial bid (the final approval for the contract) has been delayed." It indicates that new players might gain entry into the nutrition supply business at the cost of Great Value Food.

The UP government had finalised the contract in violation of the Supreme Court order of 2004, according to which only self-help groups, mahila mandals and village communities should be given contracts. Also, instead of annual tenders, the state government had decided to finalise the contract for three years.

Some firms supplying nutritious food in other states had challenged the tender before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court. The matter is expected to come up before the court on Monday.

Chadha's firm had bagged the tender in 2009 too during the BSP regime.

His sudden death has also cast a shadow over the distribution of nutrition through 90,000 anganwari centres across Uttar Pradesh. Since 2005, Great Value Food has maintained its monopoly over the nutrition supply business in UP. As Chadha's network spreads across 75 districts in the state, very few companies can now fill the gap.

Sambhu Nath, the director of child development and nutrition department, said there will be no adverse impact on the distribution of nutrition among the children and pregnant women as the state government has already finalised the technical bid for the supply. "The company has assured the government that it would maintain regular supply of nutrition to all the centres in the state."

However, the ground reality does not reflect Nath's enthusiasm. The head of Kushati village in Barabanki district, about 40 km from Lucknow, Lalchand, said the supply of nutrition has dried up since October.

"I have lodged a complaint with the SDM but he told me that the private company that was supplying nutrition has put the supply on hold. The children and pregnant women who got regular nutrition at the centre are suffering," said Lalchand.

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