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Food Trends

A review of food trends for 2020 including updates from restaurants and chefs as well as large grocery store chains highlight a wide range of topics but there are some common themes among all of them. How and Where Food is Produced Like past years, the topic of local food is still trending and there […]

WRITTEN BY: Patrice Powers-Barker, CFLE, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Lucas County

REVIEWED BY: Susan Zies, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Wood County

PHOTO CREDITS:

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REFERENCES:

  • African Peanut Soup, Allrecipes https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/73090/african-peanut-soup/?internalSource=hub%20recipe&referringId=226&referringContentType=Recipe%20Hub&clickId=cardslot%2012
  • Anderson, L. (2013). Beyond the standard flour. Michigan State University Extension. https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/beyond_the_standard_flour
  • Compost Resources. Cornell Cooperative Extension, Warren County. http://warren.cce.cornell.edu/home-page/gardening-landscape/compost-resources
  • Fox, J., Powers-Barker, P., Stiving, J., Hogan, M., Colbert, S., Rabe, M., Welch, C., Haught, S. (2016)
  • Healthy food systems: Learning about food, Ohio’s educational resources. Ohio State University Extension. https://localfoods.osu.edu/resources/healthy-food-systems-learning-about-food-ohios-educational-resource
  • Millet and Teff. Oldways Whole Grain Council. https://wholegrainscouncil.org/whole-grains-101/grain-month-calendar/millet-and-teff-%E2%80%93-november-grains-month
  • Rediscovering an ancient African millet called fonio. (2018). Oldways Whole Grain Council. https://wholegrainscouncil.org/blog/2018/04/rediscovering-ancient-african-millet-called-fonio
  • Peters, R. (2018). Save money and time by preparing foods in advance. University of New Hampshire Extension. https://extension.unh.edu/blog/save-money-and-time-preparing-foods-advance
  • Ramachandran, D., Kite, J., Vassallo, A., Chau, J., Partridge, S., Freeman, B., & Gill, T. (2018) Food trends and popular nutrition advice online: Implications for public health. Online Journal of Public Health Information. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194095/
  • Weiss, L. (2013) Farro: An ancient and Complicated Grain Worth Figuring Out. NPR.
  • https://www.npr.org/2013/10/02/227838385/farro-an-ancient-if-complicated-grain-worth-figuring-out
  • Zies, S. (2019) 2020 Nutrition trends. Live Healthy Live Well. https://livehealthyosu.com/2020/01/07/2020-nutrition-trends/

Navigating Difficult Conversations: Episode Thirteen of Healthy Living Resources

Healthy Living Resources is a telecast presented by the Family and Consumer Sciences program specialists that will focus on health, wellness, and the impact that stress has on our lives. Whether it be financial struggle, or chronic disease management, stress can creep up as a result of many of the day to day events that […]

Seeing the Scale with 20/20 Vision in 2020

Overweight and healthy? People who are overweight can be considered healthy if their waist size is less than 35 inches for women or 40 inches for men, and if they have only one or none of following conditions: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and high cholesterol, according to the National Institutes of Health’s report, Clinical Guidelines on the […]

WRITTEN BY: Carol Smathers, MS, MPH

REVIEWED BY: Daniel Remley, PhD

SOURCES:

  • https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30257-3/fulltext
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5818735/
  • https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-study-identifies-ideal-body-mass-index
  • https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1909301
  • https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htm
  • Payne, C. and Barnett, R. The Economists’ Diet: Two Formerly Obese Economists Find the Formula for Losing Weight and Keeping It Off, 2018.

Beware of the Skimmer!

Do you know what a skimmer is? It is a small electronic device that can be used to steal credit or debit card information from you. Getting skimmed is most likely going to happen at bars and restaurants (where a server takes your card and walks away with it for a short period of time), […]

WRITTEN BY: Donna Green, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, Ohio State University Extension, Erie County

REVIEWED BY: Candace J. Heer, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, Ohio State University Extension, Morrow County

SOURCES:

  • https://krebsonsecurity.com/all-about-skimmers/
  • https://www.thebalance.com/how-credit-card-skimming-works-960773
  • https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/how-to-protect-yourself-against-credit-card-skimmers-at-gas-stations/

Please Don’t Kiss My Baby!

Please don’t kiss my baby. You may have seen this campaign on social media lately or even seen a cute sign on the handle of a baby stroller or car seat. Some people may even roll their eyes at this request but there is merit to it. Some may know that I gave birth to […]

REVIEWED BY: Patrice-Powers Barker, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences Lucas County

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