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<title>Gillibrand wants food stamps, milk price reform in Farm Bill</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 8, 2013) Congress is back to work on a new five year Farm Bill. The Senate passed one last year, but the House of Representatives couldn&apos;t agree on the size of cuts to the food stamp program and other issues.New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says preserving food stamps is &quot;a moral issue.&quot; And she says there&apos;s a way to pay for them. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21942/20130508/gillibrand-wants-food-stamps-milk-price-reform-in-farm-bill">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Lawmakers seek ban of DMAA fitness supplement</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 5, 2013) A push to ban the fitness supplement DMAA brought a sports hero to the capitol along with parents who say they lost their son to the substance.Senate co-leader Jeff Klein is pressing to ban the performance enhancing supplement DMAA, also known as Jack 3 D in New York, saying it causes dangerous conditions like rapid heart beat, a spike in blood pressure, and in some cases, death from stroke or heart attack. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21557/20130305/lawmakers-seek-ban-of-dmaa-fitness-supplement">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Nutrition program to help HIV/AIDS patients stay healthier</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 1, 2013) Advancements in AIDS treatment means that people with the illness are living longer than ever. That means they need to take better care of their long-term health. A new program for AIDS patients in the North Country focuses on improving their nutrition. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21155/20130101/nutrition-program-to-help-hiv-aids-patients-stay-healthier">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>USDA revises school lunch rules</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 11, 2012) The federal government is easing its new rules for school lunches. In a letter to members of Congress Friday,  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the USDA would remove calorie limits on grains and meats in schools.At the same time, Vilsack defended the program put in place last fall. He wrote it&apos;s ensuring twice the amount of fruits and vegetables in school lunches, and a &quot;substantial&quot; increase in the use of whole grains. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21048/20121211/usda-revises-school-lunch-rules">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Irrigating a rural &quot;food desert&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 19, 2012) You may have heard about &quot;food deserts&quot;, low income areas in cities where supermarkets won&apos;t open because they won&apos;t make enough money. Area residents struggle to find affordable and fresh fruits and vegetables. Food deserts are widely considered to be one cause of America&apos;s obesity epidemic.It turns out rural areas have &quot;food deserts&quot;, too - even when there&apos;s a roadside farm stand right down the road, and the USDA&apos;s food desert map shows much of the rural North Country falls into that category.Cornell Cooperative Extension recently won a $96,000 grant to try to improve both consumer access to fresh fruits and vegetables and local farm production. Jefferson and Lewis County Extension Research Educator Amanda Root spoke with David Sommerstein. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20695/20121019/irrigating-a-rural-quot-food-desert-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Natural Selections: Fat</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 6, 2011) Between the ages of 20 and 50, the average American doubles his or her body fat. As turkey and trimmings are placed on the table and visions of sugar plums dance, get &quot;the skinny&quot; on fat from Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/6498/20111006/natural-selections-fat">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Preview: Food Day Youth Summit in Potsdam</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 3, 2011) High school students and staff from around the region are invited to attend GardenShare&apos;s Youth Summit on October 24th at SUNY Potsdam.  It&apos;s National Food Day, and organizers want young people, and their mentors, to explore issues like healthy eating, sustainable farming and junk food.     GardenShare executive director Phil Harnden spoke with Todd Moe.    He says the event is free and there&apos;s financial aid for schools to help offset the costs of transportation. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18512/20111003/preview-food-day-youth-summit-in-potsdam">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Crazy for school food from the backyard</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 29, 2011) The end of the growing season hasn&apos;t dampened excitement about a school garden project in Canton.   Students and teachers at Canton Central School will celebrate the produce from their school garden and local farms with a series of meals and programs this season.  Five schools in St. Lawrence County will take part in the state&apos;s &quot;Farm to You Fest&quot;, an event highlighting local food in schools. Ingredients for today&apos;s lunch will be taken from a garden plot behind the high school and donated by local growers.  Next week, the school will celebrate its first &quot;Harvest Festival&quot;.  Elementary classes will take part in food-themed relay races and taste tests, while high school students will help younger students learn about the health benefits of eating locally grown food.   Todd Moe stopped by this week and found second and third graders enjoying the harvest as much as they did planting seeds last spring. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18498/20110929/crazy-for-school-food-from-the-backyard">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>TLC for the young garden</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 6, 2011) It&apos;s a challenging year, no doubt about it, for gardeners and commercial growers — and the plants they&apos;re tending. There may be too much water in some places, but not enough in others, after a series of dry, sunny and windy days, and a couple of nights in the 30s. Cornell Cooperative extension horticulturist Amy Ivy has some reminders about garden TLC in her weekly chat with Martha Foley.  And they preview workshops on using local food, homegrown or not, starting next week in Sacket&apos;s Harbor, Canton and Plattsburgh. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17783/20110606/tlc-for-the-young-garden">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Article provokes anti-cheese firestorm</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 9, 2010) A cool glass of milk is an American icon of health.  But a New York Times article over the weekend casts milk’s dairy cousin, cheese, as a poster child of artery-clogging, obesity-inducing fast food.The article details the efforts of a USDA-sponsored marketing agency called Dairy Management to get people to eat more cheese.  Among its projects is a partnership with Domino’s to put 40% more cheese on its pizzas.  That effort included a $12 million advertising campaign, paid for by Dairy Marketing.Meanwhile, the USDA itself says cheese is the largest source of cholesterol-causing saturated fat in the American diet.The Times article set off a flurry of blog posts and opinion pieces with outraged titles like “Strap on Your Feedbags” and “Cheese Industrial Complex.”  Some commentators called for the new Congress to axe the program as a symbol of excessive government spending.Reaction in the dairy industry has been muted.  But Beth Meyer of the American Dairy Association emphasizes a fact that appears halfway through the article.  Dairy farmers - not taxpayers - foot most of the $140 million a year bill to fund Dairy Management as a part of their monthly milk check.&quot;It’s 15 cents per hundredweight,&quot; Meyer says.  &quot;Ten cents of that money stays local for organizations such as ours, based in Syracuse, NY, so of that goes nationally.  So it’s really a program of dairy farmers supporting promotion of their own product, which obviously makes a lot of sense.&quot;Still, Dairy Management did get more than $5 million through the USDA last year to promote sales overseas.  Dairy Management is credited with helping to slow the decline of milk drinking with its popular “Got Milk?” campaign.Meyer says she doesn’t think the criticism of the program will hurt North Country farmers.  She says there’s a place for cheese in moderate eating.  &quot;Cheeses are an excellent source of calcium,&quot; Meyer says.  &quot;They’re a nutrient dense food, and we talk about fitting foods into the daily diet, so we think this continues to be a strong program for the dairy farmers in northern New York and certainly throughout our marketing area.&quot;Dairy Management’s efforts raise thorny questions about the balance between supporting farms and promoting good nutrition.  Local agriculture groups across the North Country encourage farmers to sell so-called “value added” products like cheeses, maple candies, or jellies and jams.  Many of them are high in calories.David Sommerstein put the issue to Bernadette Logozar, local food specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/16637/20101109/article-provokes-anti-cheese-firestorm">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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