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Oct 22
2012 Building Healthy Communities Health Summit
Jan 18
SLO resident makes long haul back from injury to her goal
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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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.”…