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Healthier School Lunches

By |2017-02-10T09:50:20-07:00July 11th, 2013|Prevention|

There are more than 100,000 schools in the United States and last week, the USDA said that for the first time, they'll be ensuring that food sold in those schools will be held to stricter limits on fat, calories, sugars and sodium.  This means all foods sold in schools, from the cafeterias to the vending machines.  It's the result [...]

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New School Lunch Standards on the Way

By |2017-02-10T09:51:20-07:00January 31st, 2012|General, Prevention|

The USDA released a new final rule that will set new nutrition standards for the federal child nutrition programs that serve millions of children across the country every day. The new rule fleshes out the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. It’ll increase how many fruits, vegetables, and whole grains that are in school lunches [...]

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Building Healthy Chefs @ AZ Pre-schools

By |2017-02-10T09:51:53-07:00March 11th, 2011|Licensing, Prevention|

Our Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity just completed a series of free cooking-based nutrition trainings for childcare providers in Arizona.  The Cooking Matters curriculum from Share our Strength, as part of the Wal-Mart Foundation Health Initiatives, gives childcare providers the opportunity to learn how to prepare healthy meals and snacks on a limited budget and [...]

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2011 Department Priorities Spotlight- Public Health Prevention

By |2010-12-28T08:52:07-07:00December 28th, 2010|Behavioral Health, Prevention|

The name of the game for Public Health Prevention in 2011 is integration and leverage.  Our Public Health Prevention Team will be focusing on the social determinants of health and working to implement policies, systems and environmental changes that make the healthy choices easy.  Here are some examples of our public health prevention priorities for the [...]

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Heart Disease v. Cancer in AZ

By |2017-02-10T09:52:04-07:00October 25th, 2010|Preparedness, Prevention|

As predicted by our 1990 ADHS Vital Statistics Bureau in 1990- cancer is now the number one killer in Arizona – surpassing heart disease.  Does this mean that cancer is getting worse?  Probably not- it really says that because of better management, treatment, and prevention of heart disease- people with heart conditions are living longer.  [...]

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Cardiac Arrest Survivor Program Launched

By |2017-02-10T09:52:15-07:00June 17th, 2010|Preparedness, Prevention|

We’ve made a lot of progress toward doing something about one of the biggest killers in the state and U.S.- cardiac arrest.  We’ve published peer-reviewed journal articles that demonstrate the superiority of the new hands-only CPR technique, implemented the new approach throughout the EMS community, made inroads with getting the public aware of the new [...]

New Strategies to Reduce NaCl Intake

By |2017-02-10T09:52:20-07:00April 26th, 2010|Prevention|

Last Wednesday, April 21, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a new report on high blood pressure entitled Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States.  The report was sponsored by the CDC, FDA, and  NIH. High blood pressure is one of the nation’s leading causes of death, responsible for roughly one in six [...]

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Healthier US Schools Challenge Program

By |2017-02-10T09:52:23-07:00March 10th, 2010|General, Prevention|

  The federal Healthier US Schools Challenge Program establishes rigorous standards for schools’ food quality, participation in meal programs, physical activity, and nutrition education – key components that make for healthy and active kids – and provides recognition for schools that meet these standards. In the next school year, the USDA’s goal is to double [...]

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Salt Initiative

By |2017-02-10T09:52:24-07:00February 22nd, 2010|Prevention, Uncategorized|

We launched our salt reduction initiative this week http://www.azdhs.gov/salt/.  The overall goal is to get Arizonans to reduce their salt intake by paying more attention to the Sodium line in the nutrition facts and being a better- by selecting foods for the family that are lower in sodium. Sodium can increase your blood pressure and [...]

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Eat Well Be Well

By |2010-02-16T08:58:36-07:00February 16th, 2010|Prevention|

Throughout history, mankind’s future was largely determined by fate.  Infectious diseases like Diphtheria and Smallpox could wipe out an entire family in just a few days. People were vulnerable to outside threats ranging from a lack of clean drinking water to poor sanitation to gaps in environmental infrastructure that led to a host of infectious [...]

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