Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Jul 6, 2008	The US government doesn´t care about children’s welfare
Res ipsa loquitur: Latin for the thing speaks for itself and also known as a different way of saying than actions speak louder than words. Cliches like that exist because they tend to be true. If you look at government programs targeted for children and youth in American society, there is no...... [view]

Posted By:  bumbuwazed Posted On:  Apr 10, 2008	World Breastfeeding Week
The things we take for granted! Having grown up in a culture where it is the most natural thing for a mother to breastfeed her child, it gives me pause that somebody somewhere actually felt it necessary to come up with the concept of a week to honor and support mothers who choose to breastfeed...... [view]

Posted By:  ohegarty Posted On:  Mar 1, 2008	Nervonic Acid...where did it go?
I love a mystery. Don't you? It brings out my inner Nancy Drew. I feel way more skilled than her though with my statistical knowledge (I teach statistics). So I'm more like a well designed character in a classic Agatha Christie novel....a curious statistician if you like ;) Cooking brings...... [view]

Posted By:  ohegarty Posted On:  Jan 30, 2008	"The American Dream: You have to be asleep to believe it." George Carlin
Learning about food and food issues will should eventually lead you to question allopathic approaches for treating illness . A little humour goes a long way towards lightening the heavy cloud of deception you might start to suspect and wonder about. Many of the above links...... [view]

Posted By:  ohegarty Posted On:  Jan 14, 2008	The Vitamin D Pandemic
This is an excellent @50 minute long presentation by Michael Holick, PhD, MD conducted on May 5, 2007 (this is best viewed in IE and a very special thanks to Drew for posting this to the MS-Diet list ). Most of our human population on the entire planet is walking around deficient in...... [view]

Posted By:  ohegarty Posted On:  Jan 15, 2008	Frankenfood vs Aloe Vera
Two 'Food' Photo tours: You tell me which one you would call food. Photo Tour I (19 macro photos of deli meats aka food) I couldn't watch more than 4 photos of this tour at the beginning. Kudos to the photographer for providing more evidence for my frankenfood 'experiment'. This tour...... [view]

Posted By:  sunflowerluv Posted On:  May 8, 2007	blood type and nutrition
Type A Highly Beneficial: D> Rainbow trout, sea trout, whitefish, salmon, soya cheese, soy milk, olive and flaxseed oils, peanuts, lentils, black eyed peas, buckwheat, amaranth, Ezekial bread, rice cakes, broccoli, carrots, kale, spinach and many other vegetables, apricots, grapefruit,...... [view]

CompuTainer Pty Ltd
Submitted By:   markvdm Website:  http://www.computainer.com Phone:  +27-73-355-4191 E-mail:  mark@computainer.com	Vision:   To provide mass interventions against HIV in the areas of Education, Awareness, Prevention, Status Checking and Nutritional Support. Together with our partner we would like to educate over 5 million individuals a year by......   [view]

Chalice (Canada)
Submitted By:    Website:  http://www.chalice.ca Phone:  800-776-6855 E-mail:  mariancloutier@chalice.ca	Vision:   Chalice proclaims Christ's loving care for the poor and suffering by inspiring our Catholic community to support local initiatives in developing countries, primarily through the sponsorship of children and elderly in need....   StateProv:   Nova Scotia   City:   Springhill   [view]

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UNHCR Health, Food, and Nutrition Toolkit

Submitted By:   kurshauna Author Name:  The UN Refugee Agency Published:  0000-00-00

Website:  http://202.54.104.236/intranet/hfn/home.htm   Description:   The Health and Community Development Section (HCDS) of the Division of Operational Support has compiled this Health, Food & Nutrition ToolKit to assist field-based actors to effectively co-ordinate, assess, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate quality food, health and nutrition programmes in refugee situations. These Tools are UNHCR checklists, formats, guidance materials and other reporting forms to assist programme management and co-ordination.   [view]

Nutrition and Food Poverty toolkit
Submitted By:   kurshauna Author Name:  National Health Forum Published:  0000-00-00	Website:  http://www.heartforum.org.uk/downloads/Nut_TkitAll.pdf   Description:   This toolkit aims to help professionals tackle food poverty at local level. Nutrition + Food Poverty Toolkit brings together in one volume information essential to developing a local food poverty strategy.   [view]