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California Project LEAN provides you with a wealth of resources, evaluations, articles and materials for promoting healthy eating and physical activity. Learn more about us and how we can help you.

 

California Department of Public Health' Cancer Prevention and Nutrition Section (CPNS) was established in 1986 to develop technical capacity in the California Department of Public Health, for implementing large-scale dietary improvement measures. Its activities include the development and implementation of the 5 a Day-for Better Health! Campaign in 1988, California Dietary Practices Surveys starting in 1989, and the Nutrition Network for Healthy, Active Families Campaign and the Skin Cancer Prevention Program in 1998.

California Department of Education, Nutrition Services  administers the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) Child Nutrition Programs and the Food Distribution Program in California.  Learn about their schoolwide programs.

 

Dairy Council of California strives to enhance the health and well-being of children and adults by enabling individuals to make healthful food and lifestyle choices.  Learn about their nutrition education programs for school aged children.

USDA hopes the updated food pyramid, MyPyramid, will help to ease much of the confusion that has come from so-called "doctors" and "scientists" claiming that their independent, repeatable experimentation has shown red meat, processed foods, agrichemicals and irradiation to be unhealthy for people and the planet. Many of USDA's top officials have worked in the Agribusiness industry, providing the expertise necessary to develop a pyramid that best represents the truth about healthy eating.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) a list of publications including guidelines, resource guides, success stories, strategies, and more.


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