Nutrition & Health

Suzanne Rauzon, director of community health for the Nutrition Policy Institute, will retire in January 2024. Rauzon's University of California career began over twenty years ago when she joined the UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health, which joined NPI in 2015.

When Suzanne Rauzon and May Wang were in the master's of public health program at the University of California, Berkeley during the mid-1980s, Wang knew that her classmate had unique brilliance to bring to their field.

Lately, I've been experimenting with making jam the old fashioned way, which means a long cooking time and no added pectin. I'm finding that the fruit's flavor is much more concentrated and the jam has an extra layer of richness that I don't taste from jams made with added pectin.

Mark your calendars and register now for these free IPM webinars! Learn about pest identification, prevention, and management in and around the home, garden, and landscape.

Recently I [Matt] had a chance to interview 4-H youth member Myah who is also this year's 4-H club president for Ophir in Placer County. The following are Myah's responses to my questions.

In the last 12 months, have you ever: worried that your food would run out before you got money to buy more? been unable to afford balanced meals? cut the size of your meals or skipped meals because there wasn't enough money for food? lost weight because there wasn't enough money for food?

Con el fin de determinar si los plantos de cubiertas vegetales son una buena opcin para mejorar la salud o el buen estado de las tierras, un grupo de agencias y expertos del condado de Colusa unieron sus esfuerzos en un proyecto, que, adems, cuenta con un elemento de promocin y divulgacin que permit...

Adaptado al espaol When third-generation dairy farmer Shonda Reid first saw a milking robot at a farm show 13 years ago, she immediately recognized that the technology represented the future. Her father, however, took a bit more convincing.

Seven invasive fruit fly quarantines are in place throughout California. If you live within one of these quarantine zones, fruits and vegetables should not be moved off the property they were grown on.

Nutrition Policy Institute researchers led a recent study published in the California Agriculture journal. During COVID-related school closures school meal consumption was associated with eating more fruits and vegetables.