Nutrition & Health

This week we are celebrating National Volunteer Week by highlighting the volunteers and partners who are a vital part to the success of UCCE programs. On February 24, 2020 UCCE San Bernardino hosted an appreciation dinner to recognize the invaluable volunteers and partners.

While most Californians are staying home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, California farmers, farmworkers and other agricultural professionals are out in the fields and packing houses working to produce food.

Nutrition Policy Institute Director and Cooperative Extension Specialist Lorrene Ritchie received a $100,000 grant from The David & Lucile Packard Foundation to study the challenges faced by California families with young children that participate in the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Progra...

Researchers at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, partnered with researchers at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Stanford University, and Nutrition Policy Institute's Christina Hecht, investigated factors associate...

The Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) submitted on April 22, 2020 comments in strong opposition to the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Simplifying Meal Service and Monitoring Requirements in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs proposed rule.

COVID-19 is not to be taken lightly, says James R. Carey, UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology, who will share his scientific modeling expertise at the UC Davis-based COVID-19 webinar on Thursday afternoon, April 23. The webinar, to be broadcast on Zoom and YouTube Live from 1:30 to 4 p.m.

While most Californians are staying home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, California farmers, farmworkers and other agricultural professionals are out in the fields and packing houses working to produce food.

Las primeras seales de incertidumbre detonaron en los supermercados. De pronto, una legin de consumidores arranc con la compra excesiva de papel higinico y botellas de agua. Al tiempo que algunos bsicos como cebollas y pltanos, antes siempre disponibles, de momento escasearon.

James R. Carey, UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology, will share his scientific modeling expertise at the UC Davis-based COVID-19 webinar on Thursday afternoon, April 23. The webinar, to be broadcast on Zoom and YouTube Live from 1:30 to 4 p.m.

Nutrition Policy Institute Senior Researcher and Policy Advisor Wendi Gosliner along with her colleagues Professor Lia Fernald at the University of California (UC), Berkeley School of Public Health and Dr.