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• Bridges Helps Launch VA Program to Fight Childhood Hunger
  Last Updated: 2:44 PM 06/07/11 - Oscar winner Jeff Bridges lent his star power to the launch of a public-private partnership in Virginia to combat childhood hunger.
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• Goodbye Food Pyramid, Hello "My Plate"
  Last Updated: 1:38 PM 06/02/11 - The Agriculture Department says its new healthy eating symbol, called "My Plate," will show Americans that nutrition doesn't have to be complicated.
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• Healthier Lunches a Too Expensive Luxury?
  Last Updated: 9:02 AM 06/02/11 - Eating healthy food isn't always cheap, and some conservative lawmakers in Congress are concerned that the Obama administration's effort to make school lunches more nutritious is a luxury the nation can't afford.
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• House Republicans Push Back Efforts for Healthier School Lunches
  Last Updated: 8:44 AM 06/01/11 - Claiming the new rules are just too costly, House Republicans are pushing back against the Obama administration's efforts to promote healthier school lunches.
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• USDA Changes Recommended Cooking Temperature for Pork
  Last Updated: 10:21 AM 05/24/11 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is lowering its temperature recommendation for cooking pork to 145 degrees.
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• Defending the French Fry
  Last Updated: 9:29 AM 05/18/11 - The french fry is fighting back.
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• Conference on Nutrition in WV
  Last Updated: 3:45 PM 05/13/11 - West Virginia University's Extension Service will be co-hosting a conference next week aimed at efforts to improve eating behaviors and combat obesity.
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• Sustainable Food Week a Big MBC Success
  Last Updated: 3:42 PM 05/04/11 - April was the first time Mary Baldwin College held a sustainable food week, but the results were so dramatic, it's altering the way the school will serve food next year.
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• School Lunch Prices Increase Nationwide
  Last Updated: 12:21 PM 05/04/11 - Your kids' school lunches might soon cost a little more to comply with new federal requirements, but some parents may not even notice the increase.
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• WV Coalition to Strengthen Bonds Between Food Producers, Consumers
  Last Updated: 4:20 PM 05/04/11 - Strengthening the link between people who produce food and people who consume it is the focus of a forum in Berkeley Springs.
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• Urging Companies to Limit Unhealthy Food Ads Targeting Kids
  Last Updated: 11:21 AM 04/28/11 - Commercials promoting sugary breakfast cereals could be put on a strict diet under government guidelines urging food companies to limit marketing of unhealthy products to children.
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• Kids Get to Learn About Food Sources at WVU
  Last Updated: 2:37 PM 04/21/11 - West Virginia University is giving children a chance to learn where their food comes from with Kiddie Days at its Animal Sciences Farm.
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• USDA Proposes "Test and Hold" Procedures For Meat
  Last Updated: 8:20 PM 04/15/11 - What would you think if you heard that meat can be shipped out to stores before companies know whether or not it's contaminated?
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• State Department of Health Looks for Organizations to Serve Summer Meals
  Last Updated: 12:16 PM 04/14/11 - The Virginia Department of Health is looking for organizations that can serve meals to children during the summer months.
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• Study: Young Kids Possibly Behind Parents' Bad Eating Habits
  Last Updated: 9:50 AM 04/11/11 - A new study suggests kids might be to blame for new parents' bad health habits.
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• Augusta Schools Continue to Make School Lunches Healthier
  Last Updated: 11:22 AM 04/08/11 - Augusta County Schools are trying to keep their school meals healthy, using fresh local produce as much as possible.
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• FDA Proposes Putting Calorie Counts in Menus
  Last Updated: 2:03 PM 04/01/11 - Like it or not, many restaurant diners will soon know more about what they are eating under new menu labeling requirements proposed by the Food and Drug Administration.
• Schools Prepare for New Nutrition Law
  Last Updated: 7:23 PM 03/30/11 - The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, a federal school nutrition law, goes into effect July 1.
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• FDA Looking at Possible Link Between Food Dyes and ADHD
  Last Updated: 9:36 AM 03/30/11 - The FDA is examining the link between dyes found in everyday foods and hyperactivity in children.
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• Health Summit to Focus on Obesity
  Last Updated: 2:48 PM 03/28/11 - Marshall University says it's going to host a health summit with the University of Kentucky focusing on obesity.
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• Dining Hall Serves Homegrown Food
  Last Updated: 12:11 PM 03/21/11 - In just a couple months, the vegetables that Bridgewater students are planting will be served in the Bridgewater Dining Hall.
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• Food Prices Highest in at Least Two Decades
  Last Updated: 9:10 AM 03/04/11 - A U.N. agency says food costs are now at their highest point since the agency began tracking them 20 years ago.
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• Food and Your Mood
  Last Updated: 11:00 AM 03/01/11 - Dr. Kathleen Kelley, and Integrative Physician in Harrisonburg, explains that the freshness of foods have a direct impact on the benefits they provide.
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• New Ad Campaign Battles Image Damage from Beef Filling Lawsuit
  Last Updated: 1:34 PM 02/28/11 - Taco Bell is taking its campaign to battle damage to its image from a lawsuit questioning its taco filling to television.
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• Shoppers Wary of Genetically Modified Foods
  Last Updated: 9:05 AM 02/25/11 - You might not want to eat genetically engineered foods, but the chances are, you are.
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• Hoping to Create a Broccoli Corridor on East Coast
  Last Updated: 10:03 AM 02/21/11 - A team of East Coast researchers and agricultural agents hopes to take a bite out of the West Coast's $1 billion broccoli monopoly.
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• Study: Eating More Fiber Could Lead to Longer Life
  Last Updated: 8:51 AM 02/15/11 - Eat more fiber and you just may live longer.
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• WV Senate Approves Bill Allowing Felons Access to Federal Benefits
  Last Updated: 9:00 AM 02/11/11 - West Virginia could join 17 other states and allow drug felons to draw such federal benefits as food stamp.
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• New Program to Help Low-Income Virginians Get Food at Farmers' Markets
  Last Updated: 1:21 PM 02/07/11 - In an ongoing effort to reduce hunger and increase healthy food options to low-income families, the VDSS is launching a statewide program that will allow SNAP participants to use an EBT card at select local farmers' market.
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• Preventing Heart Disease with Wear Red Day
  Last Updated: 4:25 AM 02/05/11 - February 4 is national Wear Red Day, and many people in the Valley are wearing red to show their support for heart disease awareness.
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• Advising Americans to Eat Less Salt
  Last Updated: 9:03 AM 01/31/11 - The government is launching an assault on salt.
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• Looking Back at the History of Weight Loss in America
  Last Updated: 8:21 AM 01/25/11 - The government is preparing to weigh in with new U.S. dietary guidelines next week.
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• Looking for WV's Best Pie Baker
  Last Updated: 3:47 PM 01/13/11 - West Virginia State Fair officials are looking for the state's best pie baker.
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• New Guidelines to Overhaul Nutrition in School Lunches
  Last Updated: 12:40 PM 01/13/11 - School children would have to hold the fries and pick up more whole grains, fruits and vegetables on the lunch line under proposed new federal standards for school lunches.
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• Food Safety Bill Signed by Obama
  Last Updated: 4:03 PM 01/04/11 - President Barack Obama has signed a $1.4 billion overhaul of the nation's food safety system requiring more government inspections at food processing facilities and allowing federal regulators to order the recall of unsafe products.
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• Meetings to Develop a New Farmers' Market in WV
  Last Updated: 3:31 PM 12/30/10 - West Virginia University agriculture agents want to develop a farmers' market in Montgomery.
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• Meat Labels to Include Nutritional Information
  Last Updated: 11:15 AM 12/30/10 - The Agriculture Department will require many meat labels to include the number of calories and other nutritional information starting in 2012 so that consumers can make healthier decisions about what they eat.
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• FL Farmers Losing Millions in Southern Freeze
  Last Updated: 8:56 AM 12/29/10 - A published report says Florida farmers have lost at least $115 million in this winter's cold blast and it could get worse.
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• Lower Pregnancy Rate in Cows Linked to Drought
  Last Updated: 4:12 AM 12/29/10 - Buying steak or hamburger could soon cost more, because of the bad weather this past summer.
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• Salmonella Outbreak Tied to Alfalfa Sprouts from IL Farm
  Last Updated: 7:29 PM 12/28/10 - An outbreak of salmonella that was tied to tainted alfalfa sprouts has grown to at least 94 cases in 16 states, including Virginia.
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• WV Public Schools Getting Money Under School Lunches Law
  Last Updated: 8:34 AM 12/27/10 - West Virginia public school food programs are expected to share about $2 million in federal funding.
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• Proposal for More Funding for Kids BackPack Program
  Last Updated: 1:13 PM 12/15/10 - Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Wednesday that he will propose an amendment to the current biennial budget to provide additional state funding for the Federation of Virginia Food Banks to support the Kids BackPack program.
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• Study Says Kids Like Lower-Sugar Cereal Options
  Last Updated: 9:06 AM 12/13/10 - A Yale University study has good news for parents wanting to avoid serving super-sugary cereals.
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• Obama Signs School Meals Program Bill into Law
  Last Updated: 10:22 AM 12/13/10 - Thousands more children would get into school-based meal programs and those lunches and dinners would become more nutritious under a bill President Barack Obama signed into law Monday.
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• Healthy Holiday Eating and Weight Loss
  Last Updated: 12:09 PM 12/13/10 - Holiday parties and family gatherings are full of fellowship and food.
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• House Passes Food Safety Legislation
  Last Updated: 12:50 PM 12/09/10 - The House has passed sweeping legislation that aims to make food safer in the wake of E. coli and salmonella outbreaks in peanuts, eggs and produce.
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• A Healthy Debate at JMU
  Last Updated: 11:55 AM 12/08/10 - The Friendly City Food Co-op is asking if it is your right as an American to have healthy food.
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• School Lunch Challenges
  Last Updated: 7:56 PM 12/06/10 - Some school officials say nutritional value isn't the only challenge with school lunches.
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• U.S. House Passes School Lunch Bill
  Last Updated: 3:47 PM 12/02/10 - The House has passed a $4.5 billion bill to feed more lunches and dinners to children at school, sending the legislation to President Barack Obama.
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• Procedural Problem Could Delay Food Safety Bill
  Last Updated: 3:58 PM 12/01/10 - A procedural snafu may hold up action on food safety legislation that passed the Senate Tuesday.
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Prices for a middle school lunch in Rockingham County Schools:

Breakfast: $1.00
Reduced Breakfast: $0.30

Lunch: $1.75
Reduced Lunch: $0.40

Percentage of Obese Adults in Valley counties:

Rockingham: 26.7%
Augusta: 25.9%
Highland: 25.3%
Shenandoah: 25.9%
Page: 28.0%

UVA Children's Fitness Clinic Activity Tips:

1. Boycott Elevators - See how many stairs you can run in one day, and watch you pedometer numbers soar!

2. Break Up Your Workout - We all need 60 minutes of activity every day. Break it down into six 10-minutes spurts of chores (vacuuming, sweeping, shoveling, gardening, etc). Try walking, Wii, biking, hula hoop, soccer, or whatever your favorite sport is. Take a break from TV by moving during commercials. Dance, run in place, jump rope - get your blood pumping!

3. Have You Sweated Today? - Sweat can be a good indicator of how hard we are exercising. See if you can make yourself sweat every day.

4. Walk While Texting

5. Hills Are Our Friends - Walking uphill can burn up to twice as many calories as walking on flat surfaces! Fin a hill to conquer near your home or school!

Source: Angie Hasemann, Clinical Dietitian, UVA Children's Fitness Clinic