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Southeast U.S. ranks high in food insecurity report
Five southeast states rank among the top 10 states in the country when it comes to their food insecurity rates, which measure how a lack of money and resources influence a family's ability to provide all of its members with healthy, nutritious food.
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Where are the Twin City's Food Deserts?
Five of the 13 Census tracts in Bristol, Tenn., and Bristol, Va., are considered food desserts according to a report the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service issued this afternoon.
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Grilled leg of lamb with mustard sauce and roast asparagus
Believe whatever you want but there’s got to be some reason that legs of lamb -- a staple meal for many people during the Easter holiday -- becomes available at the same time fresh asparagus is in season and the weather finally gets warm enough to grill.
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How Bristol's becoming a healthy community
Being named a Pioneering Healthy Community last year has helped Bristol Tenn.-Va. build playgrounds and plant school gardens. It's also helping food stamp recipients buy from farmers markets and could start a program to help more kids walk home from school.
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Three simple rules for carnivores
Troubled by all the stories about the health risks involved with eating meat that have been in the news lately? Here are three simple rules I personally like to follow when I buy meat.
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Healthy Eating at the Relish Cooking Show
Food City Culinary Trainer Nat Henley and Mark McKinney, the executive chef for the University of Tennesee’s Healthy Living Kitchen, shared their recipes for Hummus and Israeli Couscous with Chicken and Asparagus as they talked about healthy eating during the Food City Food Show in Kingsport.
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The Food Revolutionary
Jamie Oliver, who's televion show "Food Revolution" started its second season Tuesday night, has what it takes to help the country at least think about its eating habits if not change them all together. Hopefully more people like him will be willing to step forward and lead.
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Farmers Markets Get Ready to Open
Four area farmers markets will kick off their 2011 season over the next four weeks and give people a chance to get all of the locally raised fruits, vegetables and meats they can get. To celebrate, here's a recipe from Mark Bittman's old column, "The Minimalist."
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Would more recreational facilities help SWVA's health woes?
A recent report found that Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, and Wise counties have less than four recreational facilities per 100,000 residents. These five Southwest Virginia counties also ranked as some of the unhealthiest localities in their entire state.
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This Week in Food News
This Week in Food News looks at the FDA's decison to delay its implementing a rule that requires fast food restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus and a study that begs to ask the question: "Does faith make you fat?"
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USDA's Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Program gets $158 millon
A federal nutrition program that provides health snacks to students at 18 elementary schools in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia received $158 million for the next school year.
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Celebrity Chef Jon Ashton talks about his relationship with food
After a brutal conversation with one of his mentors, Jon Ashton re-evaluated his relationship with food. He's since gone from being being an overweight teenager to someone who's fighting an obesity epidemic that's plaguing the United states and the rest of the world.
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Thumbs up for Gavin Grossman
In a letter to the editor, Meadowview Elementary fifth-grader Gavin Grossman lays out three rules he thinks "will help us live a great healthy life and make school a lot more fun."
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Welcome to the "Diabetes Belt"
We live in the "Diabetes Belt," a cluster of counties with high rates of obesity and diabetes that according to L.A Times reporter Melissa Healy: "girds the American South, stretching down the southeastern seaboard, 'round the silty Mississippi Delta and following the Appalachian Mountains north across Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia.
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This week in food news: Happy Nutrition Month
The American Dietetic Association has declared March "National Nutrition Month" and to celebrate we're rolling out a special edition of This Week in Food News that looks at apples, farm subsidies, fats, milk, and strawberries.
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Recipe Challenge: What's Your "Best Oatmeal Breakfast?"
We're doing our first-ever recipe challenge after a reader sent in a rather interesting oatmeal recipe where you soak oats and other ingredients soak overnight in water and warm it up with a pot of water that's also used to make coffee and a hardboiled egg at the same time.
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In defense of oatmeal
Even though it's a task that takes less than 15 minutes from start-to-finish, making oatmeal has become a topic of much talk since McDonald's started serving its brand new "Fruit & Maple Oatmeal" alongside its Egg McMuffins and other breakfast fare.
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Local brewing company finds a niche and success
Based in Abingdon, the Wolf Hills Brewing Company has grown its business to the point where three downtown restaurants are selling its beer on tap. Like many other businesses, they found a niche, built a customer base and used this customer base to get a larger market.
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Would you be less likely to get a Big Mac if you knew how many calories it had?
Would you be less likely to get a Big Mac if you knew how many calories it had? Probably not, according to an article that appeared in this month's Amber Waves Magazine.
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Say Happy Valentines Day with a CDC e-Card
With messages like "Roses are red and Violets are blue / Your preventive care may be covered at no cost to you," a heart-healthy e-card from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention makes the perfect last-minute Valentine's Day gift.
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This week in food news
A Grist article says its time to stop drinking diet soda, Mark Bittman slams Oprah for basing her "Vegan Week campaign" on meat substitutes and both houses in the U.S. Congress are taking on genetically-modified salmon that's bio-engineered to grow twice as fast as normal salmon.
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School Board member: "You can teach good habits"
Before discussing their school system's proposed wellness policy, two Sullivan County school board members talked about a time when they never wore seatbelts, until their children - who grew up at a time when "Buckle Up" campaigns were everywhere - pestered them to use the devices and soon it became a second nature.
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FoodCorps Program now taking applications
The FoodCorps program, a federal service program where people "can expect to spend a portion of their service year building or tending school gardens, teaching kids about food and nutrition, and helping procure or promote local healthy foods for school lunchrooms," is taking applications for its first year.
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Hershey Scientists: Chocolate should be a "Super Fruit"
Cocoa powder and dark chocolate should be considered among a rapidly growing group of healthy food items known as "super fruits" according to a study the Hershey Center for Food and Nutrition released one week before Valentine's Day.
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Baker Homestead goat cheese debuts at Earth Fare
Earth Fare started selling the Blake and Kristen Baker's plain, garlic and herb, chocolate and blackberry goat cheese earlier this week. The couple, who run Abingdon's Baker Homestead, will celebrate this occasion by doing a live event at that store from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
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