Healthy Selection is a program where we seek to improve healthy eating and physical activity opportunities for residents. This program is working with schools, businesses, resturants, youth, residents and other heatly organizations to make our city a much better and healthier place.

Here are the following Healthy Selection stores you can shop at:…

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The president signed the health care reform legislation law. Also on March 23.2010 the affordable care act became law. The act requires vending machines operators who owns or operate 20 or more vending machines to disclose calorie content for certain items. FDA requires by law to issue regulations to carry out these provisions by March 23.2011.

My summer project was to follow up on SB 1420. I wanted to make sure the restaurants are meeting their requirments. I also wrote about each restaurants and my experience. The SB1420 means that every restaurants in california should have a calories brochure about their food. They also should have it on thier menu but it wont be affected untill January 1.2011. Over 17,000 restaurants will be affecected by the SB1420. Theres two phases to this. On July 1.2009 -…

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One of the recent outbreak is:

1300 americans had an outbreak of salmonella. The reason why commissioner Margaret Hamburg certainly admitted that FDA and USDA didnt have the resources to do that kind of inspection.

On July 9.2010 they had a new regulation requring egg producers with more than 3,000 hens to take measure…

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try this recipe its really good

Simply Grilled Pork Tenderloin

serves: 4

2 pork tenderloins, about 12 ounces each

1 tablespoon olive oil

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1. Using a sharp knife, remove and discard any whitish silver skin and visible fat from the tenderloins.

2. Pre-heat a grill or…

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In the late afertnoon of April 22,1915 many people of the german army opened the valves on more then 6000 steel cylinders in trenches along their deffensive perimeter. In a time period of 10 minutes, about 160 tons of chlorine gas drifted over the oposing french trenches.

The other day 4 resturants finally put their calorie count on their menu's voluntarily. Taco ready,Tacos mexico Maine street cafe and District office cafe.Were taking it step by step to try to get all the fast food places to have their calorie count.…

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Michael pollan writes about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in the built environment. Michael pollan was born on Febrary 6,1955, He is an american author, journalist,activist and professor of journalism at the univirsity of california, berkely. Michael writes about alot of different subjects,but the one he most writes about is food.…

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The South Los Angeles Fast Food Moratorium is set to expire September 14, 2010. Where do we go from here? How can we stop an influx of new fast foods restaurants being developed in our beloved City? Come find out tmrw, as we here frrom Council Member Parks, rerpesentatives from Jan Perry's office, The Dept of Public Health, and much more! Community Health Councils Food Poliy Roundtable Coalition is sponsering this Town Hall to bring communities and elected officials together to…

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Does anyone feel like they are losing hope with the people around us not wanting to use the sight? Well if so, Look at the were fed up trailer to motivate you to keep going and stay strong. This sight has to work and we have to keep going trying to spread this super important message. Dont Give Up Yall.