Cabarrus Health Alliance, City of Kannapolis, NC Research Campus and Cooking for a Healthy Life are partnering to host the 7th Cabarrus Chef Challenge. The Cabarrus Chef Challenge is a community culinary competition that bridges the gap between the personal kitchen or classroom, and the exciting restaurant industry. Youth teams from local high schools will [...]
Kannapolis, NC – Concord and Kannapolis Police wowed a panel of judges with their culinary skills at this morning’s Cooking for a Healthy Life Law Enforcement Challenge, held at Restaurant Forty Six in downtown Kannapolis. Cooking for a Healthy Life is the newest program of the City of Kannapolis’ Discover a Healthy Life initiative. Today’s [...]
Bananas have been getting a lot of headlines lately thanks to research by David Nieman, DrPH, director of the Appalachian State University Human Performance Laboratory, which is on the NC Research Campus. What could be so astounding about the fruit that top news outlets like the New York Times and Men’s Health reported on his [...]
Doug Vernon (left) and Asma Warrich (right) Doug Vernon, Extension Outreach Specialist at the N.C. State Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI) and Asma Warrich, REACH Program Coordinator at Cabarrus Health Alliance (CHA) work together to build school gardens in Cabarrus County and Kannapolis City Schools. During a Q & A, Doug and [...]
Originally published in Charlotte Magazine by Allison Futterman, this article features Mary Ann Lila, PhD, director of N.C. State’s Plants for Human Health Institute at the North Carolina Research Campus, sharing the benefits of eating blueberries on a regular basis, including weight control, improving memory, fight viruses, burning fat and controlling blood sugar. Here are [...]
The Mediterranean diet is based on plant foods and is closely associated with a reduction in disease and overall mortality. Enjoy this article that gives you some tips on how to use the Mediterranean diet as a tool to get more fruits and vegetables in your diet and then check out our recipes for ideas [...]
Physical declines- the type that can lead to loss of independence- begin sooner in life than typically detected, often when people are still in their 50s, according to a Duke Health Study released in 2016. A Duke-led team enrolled participants from across the US, including many in Kannapolis, that ranged in age from their 30s through their [...]
Eighty seven percent of people in the US do not eat the USDA recommended four to five cups of fruits and vegetables per day. What if there was a way to help solve that problem by getting more of the natural goodness of produce into more of the foods people do eat? The NC State [...]
Choline is an important and essential nutrient for human health, playing a key role in brain development, and liver and muscle function. A recent national diet survey by the US Centers of Disease Control reported that 90% of adults in the US do not achieve the recommended intake for choline. The problem is that doctors [...]
The act of eating with others may actually be good for your health. A recent study followed a diverse group of about 2,000 teens for 10 years, discovering frequency of family meals during adolescence significantly correlated with reduced odds of becoming overweight or obese in young adulthood compared with never eating family meals growing up. This is [...]
