EatingRightWhenBudget’sTight™
The Challenge: Millions of Americans with very tight food budgets have become “nutrition poor.” It is well documented that poor nutrition can lead to diseases including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Little has been done to educate, teach, and demonstrate how to shop, prepare, and eat nutritious foods on a tight budget. Skewed wisdom says, “It’s not possible to eat healthy on a low wage.” This is true when food consumption revolves around heavily processed empty calorie foods and the classic ‘meat and potato’ regimen.
The Solution: We have developed an innovative program which consists of healthy, tasty, and easy to prepare breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack dishes where the cost of the daily menu per person falls below the hourly minimum wage. When this shopping and cooking program is followed diligently, it will go a long way in helping to reduce the obesity problem and related chronic diseases.
How It’s Done: The following program components are provided free of cost to program participants:
2. A cookbook featuring breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack recipes, with cost per serving and nutrition analysis information.
3. Selected recipe ingredients distributed at the cooking sessions.
4. Nutrition education and cooking demonstration videos (DVD/CD)
5. Join us at the next session and see how you can improve your family's nutrition on a tight food budget. There is no charge to attend the program sessions.
To Register Call: 916/774-6802
The immediate effects of shaking a baby, which is a common form of child abuse in infants, can include
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Vomiting
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Concussion
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Respiratory Distress
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Seizures
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Death
Long-term consequences can include blindness, learning disabilities, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, or paralysis (Conway, 1998).
Our Hannah Rose Project is dedicated to the memory of Placer’s own Hannah Rose who died of injuries consistent with Shaken Baby Syndrome. The program is modeled after the hospital-based program developed in New York in 1998 that has resulted in a sustained 50% reduction in the incidence of abusive head injuries in that region.
Through The Hannah Rose Project, parents of more than 3,000 babies born each year in Placer County participate in bedside education about SBS and learn how to cope with their child’s crying. Parents interested in additional coaching and support are encouraged to enroll in our HomeFirst program, a home-based training program for parents with young children.
To request a presentation or information booth, please email kidsfirst@kidsfirstnow.org
