Auburn, March 5, 2004---This month, learn to “Eat Smart to Stay Healthy for a Lifetime,” in celebration of National Nutrition Month. (More...)

YOUTH ANIMAL SCIENCE EVENTS FILL MONTH OF MARCH

Auburn, Feb. 25, 2004 --- Young people from more than 45 Alabama counties will participate in their own brand of March madness.  That does not refer to basketball, but rather to the extensive youth livestock events slated for the month. (More...)

4^th Annual WALK! ALABAMA Coming in March to a County Near You

Auburn, Feb. 25 --- Physical activity has been shown to help reduce the risk for chronic disease. Walk! Alabama was developed as an eight-week program to address change in behavior of attitude and action toward walking and physical activity. (More...)

Saving Towns at Risk

Normal, Feb. 23---Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s Urban Affairs and New Nontraditional Programs unit will officially launch the STAR program -- Saving Towns at Risk -- March 10, during a ceremony in Normal. The STAR ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. in the Dawson Building, room 240 at Alabama A&M University. (More...)

Extension Launches New Website for Alabama Families

Normal, AL, February 23, 2004---Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s Urban Affairs and New Nontraditional Programs unit at Alabama A&M University recently launched a new  Web site, “A Look at Alabama Families.” (More...)

Time For Consumers To Pay More For Homegrown Produce, Expert Says

Auburn, February 19, 2004 --- It’s time for American consumers to put their money where their mouths are.  If they demand American-grown fruits and vegetables instead of foreign alternatives, they’re going to have to do their part to ensure American growers stay in business.  (More...)

All Carbs Aren’t Bad

AUBURN, Feb. 13, 2004 --- Culinary McCarthyism is sweeping America and it is based on a deceptively simple premise: Cut the carbs, all carbs. (More...)

Cardiovascular Disease #1 Cause of Death in Women

Auburn, Feb.12, 2004---Cardiovascular disease, including stroke, claims more women’s lives than the next seven causes of death combined.  Nearly 500,000 women die from cardiovascular disease annually, nearly twice as many as from all forms of cancer.  (More...)

Agriculture Census Reveals Trends in Alabama and Nation   

AUBURN, Feb. 11, 2004 ---  Farm numbers continue to decline in Alabama and across the nation according to preliminary data from the 2002 Census of Agriculture.  The total number of farms in Alabama dropped about 10 percent from 49,872 to 45,112,according to an economist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System.  (More...)

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Listeria: Craftier Than First Believed

AUBURN, Feb. 10, 2004 --- Until now, scientists knew listeria was a serious pathogen; they just didn’t know how serious.  (More...)

Suburban Wildlife Encounters Becoming More Common, Expert Says

AUBURN, Feb. 9, 2004 --- Foxes, coyotes and deer?  Oh, my!

Oh, yes. (More...)

The Heart Truth for Women:  It’s Ageless

Auburn, Feb. 9, 2004---One in three American women dies of heart disease, making it the #1 killer of women.  Because heart disease is ageless, women must take action to protect their heart health, regardless of age.  (More...)

Fifth Annual Wiregrass Cotton Expo Set for Late February

AUBURN, Feb. 9, 2004 --- The fifth annual Wiregrass Cotton Expo will be held Tuesday, Feb.24 in Dothan. The Expo, a regional meeting serving both Alabama and Florida farmers, will be held on the National Peanut Festival grounds on U.S. Highway 231 South. (More...)

Glenn to Receive National 4-H DOT Award March 2 in Washington D.C.

Auburn, Feb. 9, 2004---Debra Glenn of Tuscaloosa County will be awarded a national Excellence in Extended Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) 4-H DOT (Diet’s Our Thing) award March 2 in Washington, D.C.  She is one of 24 winners to be honored as EFNEP celebrates its 35^th anniversary at the Dirkinson Senate Office Building. (More...)

Ricin’s Calling Card: Exposure, Ghastly Suffering and Often Welcome Death

AUBURN, Feb. 5, 2004 --- In August 1971, five KGB agents followed Soviet dissident and famed novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn into a food store in the Soviet city of Novocherkaask -- a fact later confirmed in the memoirs of Oleg Kalugin, a high-ranking KGB official.  Crowding around the novelist within a tight space, one of the agents pricked Solzhenitsyn with what was intended to be a deadly dose of ricin. (More...)

With Food Safety, Consumers Worry About Everything But the Kitchen Sink

AUBURN, Feb. 5, 2004 --- When it comes to food safety, consumers are apt to worry about everything but the kitchen sink --- ironic, considering that this is where many of the worst foodborne pathogens are found.  (More...)

National Wear Red Day is Feb. 6

AUBURN, Feb. 4, 2004 --- Go red – for your heart, your health, your life. (More...)

New Financial Literacy Commission to Help Consumers

Normal, AL, Feb. 3, 2004---United States Secretary of the Treasury John Snow recently chaired the first meeting of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission. Representatives from more than 20 federal departments, agencies and commissions were present, including Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan and delegates from CSREES on behalf of Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman. (More...)

Specialist Receives Grants to Promote Personal Finance Education

Normal, AL---Feb. 3, 2004---Alabama Securities Commission Director Joseph P. Borg presented four grants totaling $15,000 to promote personal finance education in Alabama during a ceremony Jan. 28 at  the Junior Achievement of Greater Birmingham, Inc. office in Birmingham.  (More...)

Slips and Falls #1 Cause of Injury to Farmers and Ranchers

Auburn, Feb. 2, 2004--Although the injuries may not be as traumatic as farm machinery entanglements, slips and falls remain the leading cause of injury among farmers and ranchers in the United States.  More than a million people suffer from falls annually, with an estimated 300,000 suffering disabling injuries and about 1,400 resulting in death.  (More...)

Aquatic Exercise Gaining In Popularity

Auburn, Feb. 2, 2004---Aquatic exercise is growing in popularity within the fitness industry. In past years, water exercise was done mostly by older adults, but now people of all ages are working out in the pool.  (More...)