After her leg was mangled, Karen Aydelott chose amputation as the best way to return to the sports she loves
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By Cynthia Lambert at The Tribune & SanLuisObispo.com
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Category Archive: Headline
Jan
18
SLO resident makes long haul back from injury to her goal
Dec
07
Congress pushes back on healthier school lunches
“Congress wants pizza and french fries to stay on school lunch lines and is fighting the Obama administration’s efforts to take unhealthy foods out of schools.
The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year. These include limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line, putting new restrictions on sodium and boosting the use of whole grains. The legislation would block or delay all of those efforts.
The bill also would …
Nov
18
Declining Rates of Obesity, Slowly but Surely
So it looks like we are starting to make an impact, but we still have a long way to go. “The obesity rate among some San Luis Obispo County youths dropped from 2005 to 2010, a new study says. Still, 32.1 percent of the county’s youths were overweight or obese in 2010, compared with 33.5 percent in 2005, according to a study being released today by the California Center for Public Health Advocacy and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.”…
Jun
02
Food pyramid out ‘My Plate’ in for healthy eating
The Agriculture Department says its new healthy eating symbol called “My Plate” as it will show Americans that nutrition doesn’t have to be complicated. It takes the place of the food pyramid, which the government has used in various forms since 1992. “My Plate” is a simple circle divided into four sections that contain fruits, vegetables, protein and grains. It’s accompanied by a website. USDA officials say the pyramid was tired out, overly complex and tried to communicate too many nutrition facts at once. …