The Right to Eat: Exploring Food Policy, Access and Equity

Food policy: From initiatives to access

22. October 2008 | Category Podcasts | 0 Comment »


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Kelly Horton, MS, RD, CD, Nutrition Services Manager at Lifelong AIDS Alliance
Kelly Horton, MS, RD, CD, Nutrition Services Manager at Lifelong AIDS Alliance

Kelly Horton is also the founder of the consulting organization Connect Nutrition where she is Director and Food Policy/Nutrition Program Planning Consultant. Kelly has an interdisciplinary background in Business Management, Food Policy and Applied Nutrition, and Community-based Nutrition. She chairs the World Hunger Committee of the American Dietetic Association’s Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group. For Lifelong AIDS Alliance she leads a Medical Nutrition Therapy study researching healthcare cost benefit of comprehensive nutrition care for people living with chronic illnesses. In 2005, Kelly was a Science Policy and Technology Graduate Fellow at The National Academies within the Institute of Medicine on the Food and Nutrition Board.

She conducted research and assisted with the Committee on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth which produced the report Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity? She has facilitated numerous training workshops and educational seminars focused on food policy, access to healthy foods, and sustainable food systems. She is Washington State Food and Nutrition Council’s Agriculture Legislative Chair, a PCC Natural Markets Trustee, a member of the Acting Seattle/King County Food Policy Council, and a member of the Community Food Security Coalition’s Policy Committee. She is passionate about strengthening intersections between food, agriculture, nutrition, and health.

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Is the devil in the deep blue sea? Risk and benefits of eating seafood

15. October 2008 | Category Podcasts | 0 Comment »


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Joyce Nettleton, DSc, Seafood Nutrition Specialist
Joyce Nettleton, DSc, Seafood Nutrition Specialist

Joyce is a specialist in seafood nutrition and science communications who has an independent consulting practice, ScienceVoice Consulting, in Denver, CO. She is well known for her work in seafood nutrition and omega-3 fatty acids, including 3 books and scientific articles on seafood composition, omega-3 fatty acids and type 2 diabetes, and mercury in seafood.

Nettleton is currently editor of two science-based electronic newsletters specializing in polyunsaturated fatty acids, the PUFA Newsletter for health professionals and Fats of Life for consumers. She holds a doctorate in nutrition science from the Harvard School of Public Health and a Master’s in International Nutrition from Cornell. In 1999, she was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Both newsletters are freely accessible at www.fatsoflife.com

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Floundering at the seafood case? How to choose and eat wisely

7. October 2008 | Category Podcasts | 0 Comment »


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Liz Carr, ME, Washington State Department of Health, Olympia
Liz Carr, MES Washington Department of Health, Office of Environmental Health Assessments, Olympia

Liz Carr, MES, coordinates the Fish Advisories Program at the WA Department of Health, Office of Environmental Health Assessments, developing best practices for issuing recreational and commercial fish advisories. With seventeen years of experience managing marine related scientific research projects, environmental and public health programs, she is interested in the intersection of advocacy, policy and program development.

Previously, she worked for non-governmental organizations in the areas of ecological economics and Antarctic research and for the state as a fisheries biologist. Her most recent project the “Healthy Fish Choices Grocery Store Project” was highlighted in Perspectives UC Berkeley’s Health Research for Action as a successful model to help shoppers choose fish with lower contaminants. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology and a Masters in Environmental Studies.

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