August 2018

Growing Food with a Trauma Informed Perspective

Churches Own Thousands of Acres of Land Across the U.S., and Some See That as an Opportunities for Farming Projects to Help Students and Families (NationSwell.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 8/31/187:41 AM

Over the past decade, there has been a push for ecological conservation within the Christian faith , motivated by concerns over how climate change might impact human welfare. That movement has coincided with an uptick in the number of faith-based farms , many of which equate divinity with sweat equity and its bountiful results. Where those two movements intersect sits Plainsong Farm & Ministry , a community-supported agriculture farm and ministry, located outside of Rockford, Michigan.

Hunger/Food Security through a Trauma-Informed Lens

Students More Likely To Eat School Breakfast When Given Extra Time (scienceblog.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 8/19/188:42 AM

Primary school students are more likely to eat a nutritional breakfast when given 10 extra minutes to do so, according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Tech and Georgia Southern University. The study, which is the first of its kind to analyze school breakfast programs, evaluated how students change their breakfast consumption when given extra time to eat in a school cafeteria. The study also compared results of these cafeteria breakfasts to results of serving in-classroom breakfasts...

Growing Food with a Trauma Informed Perspective

How to Make the Benefits of a School Garden Meaningful in a Child's Life (kqed.org)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 8/12/189:30 AM

Amid the litany of education reforms that emphasize innovation and new methods, school gardens stand out as a low-tech change. In an era where kids' lives are more sedentary, and where childhood obesity has risen dramatically, gardens support and encourage healthful eating as a key component of children's physical wellbeing, which can aid their academic and social success, too. And as the consequences of food deserts and poor nutrition on life outcomes become starker, advocates say that...

MyPlate Wall-Size (laminated) Poster

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 8/8/184:02 PM

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Study Analyzes Adolescents' Reactions to Weight-related Terms Used by their Parents

Bethany Hendrickson · 8/7/183:05 PM

Conversations about weight can be particularly challenging for parents with adolescent kids, and insight into the characteristics of parent-adolescent communication about body weight is limited. Published in Childhood Obesity, this study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity interviewed 148 adolescents enrolled in a weight loss camp, asking them what words their parents typically use to talk about their weight, how those words make them feel, and what words they would most want...

Race, Class, and Culture

Our Idea of Healthy Eating Excludes Other Cultures, and That's a Problem

Monica Bhagwan · 8/6/188:44 PM

A nutritionist of Trinidadian heritage writes of the harm done to people by failing to include a deep understanding of cultural diversity in nutrition and dietetics training: "We were often being taught to perpetuate idea that Eurocentric eating patterns were the only paths to healthy eating, that healthy eating means one thing and one thing only. But teaching someone healthier eating isn’t about making swaps here and there to fit a patient’s culture into a Eurocentric diet. It should be...

Race, Class, and Culture

The Chefs Redefining Polynesian Cuisine

Monica Bhagwan · 8/6/188:38 PM

What a powerful articulation of cooks, chefs and communities attempting to reclaim lost sustenance, identity, and connection to food and place-- lost because of colonization. Marginalized and oppressed communities around the world are trying to reclaim their power, often through food. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/06/t-magazine/polynesian-cuisine.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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