Helping Forsyth County make the 'mooove' to better health
BY JESSICA SELF AND SUZI RIFE
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
A chorus of "moos" could be
heard around the cafeterias of 14
elementary schools in Forsyth
County over the last couple of
months.
A health educator, dressed in a
cow costume, spoke with students
about the importance of drinking
low-fat milk. A nutritionist and
health educator brought teaching
models of a bone and artery by
each table to promote discussion
of why we need calcium for strong
bones and the need to reduce the
amount of fat in our daily diet.
This event was part of the 1% or
Less Milk campaign sponsored by
the Behealthy School Kids Pro
gram, a collaboration between the
Forsyth County Department of
Public Health and the Winston
Salem/Forsyth County Schools
Child Nutrition Department.
Each school had a week-long
educational effort to encourage its
students, teachers/staff and fami
lies to make the switch from whole
milk to 1 percent or skim milk to
lower the amount of saturated fat
in their diet. Saturated fat is high
ly linked to heart disease, the lead
ing cause of death in th$ United
States. Whole and 2 percent milk
are major sources of fat in the
American diet, containing two to
three times the amount of fat as I
percent or skim milk.
The milk selection at most
schools includes whole, 1 percent
plain, I percent chocolate and I
percent strawberry. The Behealthy
School Kids 1% or Less Cam
paign was a tremendous success.
Many of the students and their
families pledged to drink 1% or
skim milk during the campaign.
The greatest increases in 1 percent
milk consumption were at Prince
Ibraham Elementary (24 percent
increase) and Jefferson Diggs Ele
mentary (23 percent increase).
The Behealthy School Kids
program provides an opportunity
for children and their families to
receive additional nutritional
guidance and education that will
empower them to make life-long,
healthful decisions without
intruding on instructional time.
The next major event taking place _
at the school will begin in August,
focusing on eating five or more
servings of fruits and vegetables
every day.
For more information about
the program, call 722-2436 exten
sion 3869 or extension 3751.
NCSA
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to classical dance through financial
support of its study, performance
and appreciation. The foundation is
based in Chicago.
An arts conservatory of interna
tional renown, the N.C. School of
the Arts was the first state-support
ed. residential school of its kind in
the world. Established by the N.C.
General Assembly in 1963. NCSA
became part of the University of
North Carolina in 1972. Students
from middle school through gradu
ate school train for careers in the arts
in live professional schools: dance,
design and production (including a
visual arts program), drama, film
making. and music. Alumni of the
dance school include Gillian Mur
phy. soloist with American Ballet
Theatre: Katita Waldo, principal
dancer with San Francisco Ballet;
Peter Pucci, choreographer and
founder of Peter Pucci Plus
Dancers; and Mark IX'ndy. choreo
grapher and founder of Dendy
Dance and Theater.
Martha Holmes, Title I reading teacher at J.D. Diggs Elementary, and
Jessica Self, Behealthy School Kids Program, Forsyth County Depart
ment of Public Health (in milk carton).
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Air cancer risk in Forsyth County 50
percent higher for people of color
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NEW YORK People of color
in Forsyth County face a 50 percent
higher estimated risk of cancer from
hazardous air pollutants in their
neighborhoods than white people,
analysis by Environmental Defense
on its www.Scorecard.org Web site
shows
The data are part of a new infor
mation service on environmental
justice, launched April 18, which
provides comparative analysis on
environmental conditions as they're
distributed across different demo
graphic groups for every area of the
United States The specific environ
mental justice rep3ft for Forsyth
County is available online at:
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"This access to comparative data
in a single place is an important
breakthrough for the environmental
justice movement." said Gerald Tor
res, a law professor at the University
of Texas and former U.S. Justice
Department official. "For the public
at large, it will make it possible to see
differentials in environmental bur
dens in our society, not just where
those problems are already obvious
but place by place throughout the
country."
"Environmental justice is impor
tant. sensitive, and hard to mea
sure," said Environmental Defense
senior attorney David Roe. "We are
putting the best measurement data
we can find out into public view, so
people can see a local picture no
matter where they live." The new ser
vice, launched April 18 in English
and Spanish, represents the first
time local-level environmental data
have been systematically analyzed
across the country to show the dif
ferences experienced by different
demographic groups (such as people
of color, low-income families, etc.).
"These are first-cut data only."
Roe cautioned. "The best numbers
available today are very far from
being perfect measures of the envi
ronmental burdens that different
people experience and of course
numbers can't tell the whole environ
mental justice story. But systematic
data on the 'where' and 'how much'
of unequal environmental condi
tions, even if imperfect, will help
focus attention and set priorities in
this critical area of public policy."
The www.Scorecard.org site now
offers statistics on how four environ
mental burdens are experienced by
seven different demographic groups,
in every U.S. county. The four mea
surements are: local releases of toxic
chemicals (as reported under the
Toxics Release Inventory); local can
cer risks from hazardous air pollu
tants (estimated from detailed U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
exposure data): proximity to Super
fund sites; and proximity to station
ary sources of criteria air pollutants.
Music
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say the recent drop in shared files
shows that their filtering efforts are
working.
While the recording industry has
argued that trading music on Nap
ster hurts record sales, the spike in
downloading hasn't affected the
Tower Records store on Pennsylva
nia Avenue in Washington, blocks
from the White House.
"Sales have been very strong.
People are still coming in for whole
records," said general manager Mike
Redmond, adding that "every now
and again" a music downloader
comes in asking for a whole CD.
But Rainie said that the record
ing companies may still have a valid
point about piracy.
"A year ago, a significant num
ber of people said they don't care
about copyright protection," Rainie
said. "For some people, they sample
the music and go out and buy it. But
for a lot of people, they don't go out
and buy it."
Rainie said his group plans to do
another poll about Americans' atti
tudes toward copyright soon. He
said last year's study showed that 69
percent of Internet users who down
load music get the files for free, and
"the vast majority" say they do not
frequently purchase the downloaded
music later.
The recording industry's trade
group did not return calls for com
ment on the study.
The number of songs on Nap
ster may drop even more after the
addition of a recently announced
technology that filters out songs
based on their sounds, not their
titles. The recording industry won an
injunction to stop Napster from per
mitting the transfer of copyright
songs on its network, and the com
pany has struggled with ways to stop
piracy.
More older Internet users are
downloading music, according to
the report. Fifteen percent of Inter
net users over 50 said they have got
ten tunes from the Internet, up from
9 percent in July.
"It's always been the case that
this wasn't just for people under 30,"
Rainie said. "There are a lot of
music files that people who are 50
and over grew up with."
Still, it is largely a young person's
activity. Just over half of adult Inter
net users under 30 and three-quar
ters of boys aged 15 to 17 said they
download songs from the Internet.
The report is based on three tele
phone surveys, using random-digit
dialing and having an error margin
of plus or minus 2 to 4 percentage
points, depending upon the survey
portion. The surveys polled a total
of 4,205 adults and 754 children.
Janet
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definitely let you know that Janet
isn't little "Penny" anymore. She
talks about everything from letting
her imagination run wild due to
missing her lover to all the things she
would do to him once he returns. No
need to give away any more details,
but just that she is definitely com
fortable with exploring the many
aspects of her sexuality.
This album is very well-rounded.
It has its high and low points about
relationships, friendships and love.
Maybe this album could be dubbed
another chapter in her life, but for
the first time. I think it's OK to say
that many people, especially women,
can relate to the songs on this
album.
Janet is a gifted artist who is sexy
and sultry as well as a dance phe
nomenon who has taken the world
by storm. But take a listen to this
album and you'll love her even more
and realize that when she is cut, she
bleeds too, just like the rest of us. So
go on and add "All For You" to your
collection of CDs. It's one of those
albums that can be labeled, "for any
mood."
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Friday Nights
at 11
April, 2001
Black Issues Forum
Friday. April 6 (a). 11:00 I'M
Black Issues Forum: Tina Andrews
Hollywood screenwriter
Friday. April 13 fa 11:00 I'M
Black Issues Forum: Thinking Outside of
the Box
Friday. April 20 fa 11:00 PM
Black Issues Forum: Closing the
Academic Achievement Gap
Friday. April 27 fa 11:00PM
Black Issues Forum: HIVIAIDS, A State
of Emergency
A 30-minute review of
critical issues that affect
the black community and
influence the quality of living
for all North Carolinians.
Host, Jay Holloway