Stretching food dollars

    By DEBORAH LOWERY EBCI WIC PROGRAM   I remember growing up and my mom saying: “Clean your plate, there are starving children in China.” I never understood that statement and why she wouldn’t send the rest of my food on over there. Well times...

Shake the salt habit

  By JEAN WALBORN CHEROKEE DIABETES PROGRAM    Unlike calcium, vitamin D, iron and fiber, which often are consumed in inadequate amounts,  sodium is   commonly over-consumed.  Nine out of 10 Americans eat too much sodium.  Don’t think that sodium is bad.  It...

National Kick-Butt Day is March 18

  Every day in the United States, nearly 4,000 kids try their first cigarette.  Nicotine is an extremely addictive component, as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Every 72 seconds in the U.S., someone dies from tobacco consumption. The tobacco sector addicts more...

How’s Your Energy Today?

    By DEBORAH LOWERY EBCI WIC PROGRAM   Did you know that energy is all around us? Everything gives off energy; humans, animals, rocks, air, water, earth… everything! Energy is not positive or negative until we make it that way.  Humans and animals...