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https://www.afinalwarning.com/467531.html (Natural News) Food deserts are an increasing problem in the U.S., but a recent study is seeking to alleviate it. Food deserts, according to experts, are areas that have limited access to affordable and nutritious food, making them the direct opposite of food oases, which are defined as areas with higher access to markets or vegetable shops with fresh foods.
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Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, researchers from the
For the study, researchers followed 32 participants of a gardening program offered by community-based urban garden organization Valley Verde for a year. The researchers did this to better understand perceptions of the health benefits and acceptability of urban home gardening, especially since interest in such activities has been on the rise.
âEssentialâ Workers Still Endangered by COVID-19
Biden and Congress must boost OSHA standards and enforcement to stifle the pandemic.
More than a year into a pandemic that has killed nearly half a million Americans, millions of workers still toil in dangerous infection-spreading conditions, in hospitals and clinics, nursing homes, factories, supermarkets, and fieldsâperilously providing Americaâs food and health care in hazardous conditions.
While there is no single source enumerating COVID-19 health effects on workers, there is ample reliable data showing that worker exposures are a significant part of the pandemicâs deadly toll.Â
Many of these workers are near the front of the vaccination queue, but this process could take months, and COVID-19 remains a serious workplace hazard.
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Rep. Barbara Wasinger, R-Hays, is convinced budget problems at public universities in the Kansas Board of Regents system are tied to bloated academic programs and declining enrollment.
TOPEKA Rep. Barbara Wasinger peppered state university administrators with assertions that campuses across Kansas were a morass of academic program duplication, dwindling student enrollment and unreasonable consumption of tax dollars.
Her perspective not universally shared by her Republican and Democratic colleagues carried weight as vice chairwoman of the House Higher Education Budget Committee. The panel was responsible for sifting through budget requests on behalf of six public universities managed by the Kansas Board of Regents as well as Washburn University, community colleges and technical colleges within the board’s jurisdiction. A comparable budget process has been occurring in the Kansas Senate, and both cham