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Volunteer Opportunity for Nutrition Education
Virginia Cooperative Extension is recruiting volunteers to deliver nutrition education to limited-income groups in Roanoke and the New River Valley. Extension would love to have SW-VA Dietetic Association members volunteer as we are already experts on the information provided.

Virginia Cooperative Extension will train volunteers on the specific curriculum materials, provide volunteer position description, and identify places in the community near you to provide participants nutrition education. It is a very minimal training and you can donate as many hours or as little hours as you have time for.

Please contact Lauren Kennedy, Nutrition Outreach Instructor

Family Nutrition Program - Virginia Cooperative Extension (540)444-2946

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The Importance Of Metabolism In Understanding Health Benefits Of Cocoa Flavanols: Recent Study By Mars, Incorporated And Partners

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST - A comprehensive investigation of flavanol absorption and metabolism has provided a critical step forward in our understanding of how cocoa flavanols work in the body to exert their circulatory and cardiovascular benefits...

New Standard For Vitamin D Testing To Ensure Accurate Test Results

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST - At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material to assure that measurements of vitamin D levels are accurate. The report appears in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry...

Position Statement On The Role Of Vitamin D In Postmenopausal Women Published In Maturitas

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced the publication of a position statement by the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in journal Maturitas on the role of vitamin D in postmenopausal women with summary recommendations. Vitamin D deficiency is common and may affect up to 70% of Europeans...

More Black Tea Lowers Blood Pressure

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:00:00 PST - Tea, the second most consumed drink after water, may help lower blood pressure. Scientists at The University Of Western Australia and Unilever, state in Archives of Internal Medicine, that drinking black tea three times a day may drastically lower a person's systolic and diastolic blood pressure...

Frying Food in Olive or Sunflower Oil Better For Heart

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:00:00 PST - According to a study published on bmj.com, heart disease or premature death is not associated with consuming food fried in sunflower or olive oil. The study was conducted in Spain, a country in the Mediterranean where sunflower or olive oil is used for frying...

2nd Virginia Food Security Summit: Connecting our Farms, Food, Health and Environment 
December 5 & 6th 2011
Charlottesville, VA

Virginia’s farm, food, health and environment advocates will meet in one place to plan for the future of food security in Virginia. Your voice is important! Please join us for this gathering of farmers, chefs, grocers, health workers, planners, and community leaders from across the state!  

·Hear national and state leaders discuss trends in our food system
·Help launch the Virginia Farm to Table plan, our first statewide strategic food security plan
·Develop ideas and spark action for increasing access to healthy, nutritious food in Virginia
·Meet people who come from all corners of our food system
·Learn from food system innovators from across Virginia
·Showcase your own work in a poster

Hosted By:  The University of Virginia, UVa Food Collaborative, Virginia Farm Bureau Federation, Virginia Food System Council, Virginia State University School of Agriculture, Virginia Tech Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Washington and Lee University, Piedmont Environmental Council

http://virginiafoodsummit.org/agenda/ 
 

Frontiers in Nutrition and Cancer Webinar 

Vitamin D is increasingly recognized to have multiple physiological roles beyond its function in bone health. Emerging evidence suggests that higher vitamin D exposures may reduce risk of certain cancers in some populations, but can possibly increase risk in others. We will discuss current nutritional guidelines, strength of current research, and some potential mechanisms by which vitamin D may influence cancer risk.

We invite clinicians and researchers to register for the second free webinar in NCI's Frontiers in Nutrition and Cancer Prevention Series. Experts in the field of nutrition will update you on the role of vitamin D, from dietary guidelines to clinical research to basic science