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An Ounce of Prevention: How Nutrition Can Save Your Life

Black Health Matters

Speakers: Corynne Corbett, Editorial Director, Black Health Matters Charmaine Jones, MS, RDN, LDN Food Jonezi Presented By Merck Black Health Matters Editorial Director Corynne Corbett and Charmaine Jones, MS, RDN, LDN, discussed the ways nutrition can help decrease cancer risks during the Black Health Matters Spring Health Summit & Expo.

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BHM Winter Summit Rewind: Exploring the Impact of Nutrition & Exercise on Your Health

Black Health Matters

Corbett, Editorial Director, Black Health Matters, Dashaun Johnson Cee Nicole, MD, MSW, Magan Ester, RDN Healthcare professionals Cee Nicole, MD, MSW, Magan Ester, RDN, and trainer Dashaun Johnson joined Black Health Matters Editorial Director Corynne L. Corbett to discuss weight, nutrition, and exercise. she questioned.

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Infant Health Starts Before Conception

Exploring Health

The Role of Nutrition in Fetal Development and Beyond Development from fetus to child to adult depends on maternal nutrition and health long before conception. This is a time period of enormous potential, but also enormous vulnerability, says Melissa Young, PhD, associate professor of global health at Emory University.

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Supporting families and students at Piedmont Health Services

UNC Epidemiology Blog

May 7, 2025 Alisha Bailey Piedmont Health Services (PHS) offers low-cost medical and dental services to patients in North Carolinas Triangle region and beyond. PHS also operates as a Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) agency.

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DPI seeks sponsors to provide summer meals

NC Health News

Summer Nutrition Programs are due March 1. Almost one million North Carolina K-12 public school students rely on the nutritious meals and snacks served during the school year through the school breakfast, school lunch, and afterschool meals programs, according to DPI. The Food and Nutrition Service, an agency of the U.S.

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NIH researcher retires early over censorship concerns under RFK Jr. leadership

The Hill

Kevin Hall, a top nutrition researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said he is retiring early, claiming his work was censored after Robert F. took the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Kennedy Jr. He said he never heard back.

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Keeping community first in WNC after Hurricane Helene

UNC Epidemiology Blog

These materials have been essential in ensuring that emergency personnel, health professionals, and volunteers can respond effectively to the unique needs of infants and young children during crises, said Love Anderson, NCBfC Chair. A trained dietitian, Michelle was able to assist residents with nutrition-related questions.