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Co-op Community ENEWS
An e-publication with your good health in mind                  November 2011    
Holiday dinner
Healthy Holiday Food 

 

The Co-op is your one-stop source for festive holiday meals. From a complete Thanksgiving dinner-for-two to delicious holiday side dishes and show-stopping desserts. You can pre-order for easy pickup to make your celebrations easy. Place your custom order with our deli in advance to pick up on your preferred day:

 

- Order by Friday 11/18 to pick up on Monday 11/21
- Saturday 11/19 for pick up Tuesday 11/22
- Sunday 11/20 for pick up Wednesday 11/23

In This Issue
Gift Ideas Support Sustainability
Food Revolution
Farm Bill 101
Feed Your Genes
Kids' Eat Fruits & Veggies
Pesticide in Every Bite
Local Farms, Food & Jobs
Gnocchi
Healthy Connections Classes

 

Behind the Navel: Self-Abdominal Massage

with Janet Kingsley, LMP

Tuesday, November 1

Cordata Co-op

  

Creating Vibrant Health: Superfoods and Cleansing

with Doug Walsh

Thursday, November 3

Cordata Co-op

 

 

End-of-Life Planning

with Arline Hinckley

Monday, November 7

Downtown Co-op

 

Secrets of Aborigine Healing

with Robbie Holz

Tuesday, November 8

Downtown Co-op

  

Take Control of Your Health: Cancer

wth Jim Ehmke

Thursday, November 10

Downtown Co-op

 

Stress Relief Through Self-Hypnosis

with Leigh McDiarmid

Monday, November 14

Downtown Co-op

  

Seasonal Relief with Homeopathy

with Monique Arsenault

Wednesday, November 16

Downtown Co-op

 

Gluten-free Baking for Dummies

with Jean Layton, ND

Tuesday, November 29

Cordata Co-op

 

Make Your Own Moisturizing Cream

with Elly Morrison, PhD

Wednesday, November 30

Downtown Co-op  

 

Check our website and newsletter for the full lineup of great classes. 

Favorite Recipes
Find recipes for your favorite Co-op deli salads, entrees, and bakery items on our website.

Follow our Sassy Sampler blog and pick up her tested recipes in store and online.
It Pays to be
a Co-op Member
  

Membership benefits include:

- Periodic discounts and special offers

- Special order pricing on bulk purchases

- Member discounts with local business partners

- Member pricing for classes

- Opportunity to participate in governance

 

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or stop by the service desk.

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Community Shopping Day Update

Thanks to everyone who shopped on Saturday, October 15. Because of you we donated $1,603.35 to United Blind of Whatcom County.
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Food RevolutionGift Ideas that Support Sustainability 

 

Have you seen our exciting "food revolution" logo. You can get it now on our Co-op branded durable "revolutionary" stainless steel pint-size cup. It's BPA-free, stackable, and dishwasher safe. Great for iced tea & coffee, juice, beer, or smoothies.

 

Grab a new 100% recycled cotton shopping bag-also with our "food revolution" logo. A sustainable way to carry your stuff. This bag is from Ecorite-leaders in green thinking with environmentally friendly products.  

 

Join us in choosing products that help make our world a better, safer, and healthier place.

 

Food Revolution

 Food Revolution

"A revolution in how we eat means respecting food and the people who produce it. In my world, every aspect of this revolution, be it related to agricultural policy, the environment or obesity, must begin with a plate of lovely, locally produced food and work backward from there." --Alice Waters, Chef, Author, Food Revolutionary

Farm Bill

Farm Bill 101 for
Farm Bill 2012 

 

Want more information on conservation issues, cutting subsidies, reinstating programs to help young farmers or rural development, and pilot programs that make fruits and vegetable more accessible to low-income communities plus lots more? The Northwest Farm Bill Action Group has posted information and links to great articles on their website. You can also get frequent updates on their Facebook page.

 

In addition, these organizations have developed platforms for the 2012 Farm Bill: Community Food Security Coalition, Food and Water Watch, and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition's 2012 Farm Bill Platform Budget Chapter.  

 

The American Farmland Trust and 55 other groups have outlined a set of key principles that lawmakers should observe as they write the Conservation Title of the 2012 farm bill and seek ways to trim the federal deficit.  

   

1/3 protein fat carbsFeed Your Genes
How Our Genes Respond to the Foods We Eat

 

What should we eat? Answers abound in the media, all of which rely on their interpretation of recent medical literature to come up with recommendations for the healthiest diet. But what if you could answer this question at a molecular level--what if you could find out how our genes respond to the foods we eat, and what this does to the cellular processes that make us healthy -- or not? That's precisely what biologists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have done.

 

If you could ask your genes to say what kinds of foods are best for your health, they would have a simple answer: one-third protein, one-third fat, and one-third carbohydrates. That's what recent genetic research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology shows is the best recipe to limit your risk of most lifestyle-related diseases. For the full story, see Science Daily

Kids' Consumption of Fruits & Apple girl
Vegetables Increased by 15%

 

The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) increases the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables by children at participating schools by one quarter of a cup per day, or 15 percent, according to a new independent evaluation of the program issued recently by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). Also, the additional fruits and vegetables consumed replaced the consumption of other less healthy foods, thereby not increasing total energy intake.

 

The FFVP is intended to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among students in the nation's poorest elementary schools by providing free fresh fruits and vegetables to students outside of regular school meals.

 

The evaluation included 5,560 elementary school students in 252 schools nationwide. The full report is available at the FNS website.

 

A gmo corn Pesticide in Every Bite: GMO Corn 

 

Surveys over the past decade have consistently shown that Americans don't want to eat genetically engineered (GE or GMO) food. Despite the overwhelming opposition to this risky new food technology, the biotech giant Monsanto continues to impose its unlabeled GMO's onto our dinner plates.

 

The latest: Monsanto's new GMO corn, intended for the frozen and/or canned corn market. This experimental corn will not be labeled, so consumers cannot know when they may be eating a GMO food that contains a toxic pesticide in every bite. Because there are already untested varieties of other insect-resistant and Roundup-Ready varieties on the market, federal regulators are not requiring ANY approval process-which means NO public comment on its introduction into our food supply.

 

Center for Food Safety (CFS) has teamed up with the Center for Environmental Health to urge major companies that make frozen and/or canned corn to take action to avoid Monsanto's new crop. See the CFS website for more information and learn how you can take action.  

Local Farms, Food & Jobs ActApple books

 

If supporting local farms, farmers markets, CSA's, food co-ops and having fresh local food in schools is important to you, a call to your local politicians requesting their support could make a difference. 

 

The Local Farms Food and Jobs Act is scheduled to be introduced in Congress the last week of October by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree from Maine and Senator Sherrod Brown from Ohio. The goal of the bill is to better support local and regional farm and food systems from farm to table. Local food systems connect consumers with where their food comes from, boosts farm income, stimulates job creation and economic development, and helps meet public health and nutrition goals. For example, the proposed legislation would:

  • allow schools a "local Food Credit" to use some of the commodity food money for local food purchases
  • increase $ for Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Programs
  • increase $ for community food projects
  • increase $ for specialty crop

For more information about the Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act, see the Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network and read their talking points.   

 

Upcoming Events

 

Board of Directors monthly meeting
Wednesday, November 9, 7 pm, Cordata Co-op Roots Room

The Nutritionist Is In

Tuesday, November 15, 11 am-1 pm, Downtown Co-op

Wednesday, November 16, 9:30-11:30 am, Cordata Co-op 

Meet with Co-op Nutritionist Tom Malterre, MS, CN, for answers to your nutrition questions.

3rd Thursday Local Music Series: Kit Nelson
Thursday, November 17, 6-8 pm, Downtown Co-op Cafe

Community Shopping Day: Local Food Works
Saturday, November 19, all day at both stores

Member Affairs Committee monthly meeting
Wednesday, November 30, 5:15 pm, Cordata Co-op Roots Room

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