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Getting Kids to Eat More Fruit
Usually parents don’t have as many problems encouraging fruit intake because the sweet taste is more appealing. There are so many different types of fruit. Don’t get into a shopping rut of only buying bananas, oranges and apples. Try out different fruits, especially when they are in season.
Mango - sweet and syrupy when ripe they are full of vitamin C and beta carotene. Great in fruit salads.
Pomengranate - from the berry family it has sweet, delicious bright red seeds. They make a pretty addition to a salad.
Kiwi - peel off the fuzzy brown skin and the green interior has a citrus taste. Eat in slices or scoop out like a hard boiled egg. High in vitamin C and fiber.
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Friday, 13 August 2010 |
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Minnie E. Jones
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Staff Reports
Western North Carolina Community Health Services (WNCCHS) will honor community activist Minnie E. Jones by dedicating its new Biltmore Avenue clinic in her name during an open house on August 13. The rechristened “Minnie Jones Health Center,” at 257 Biltmore Avenue, will be WNCCHS’s primary clinic providing comprehensive primary care for adults and children. The dedication ceremony will begin at 5 p.m. at the clinic; the public is encouraged to attend.
Minnie Jones has worked on numerous issues involving voter registration, civil rights, housing, and homelessness projects in Asheville and across the country. In 1994 she, Carlos Gomez, and Dr. Polly Ross founded WNCCHS as a not-for-profit community health center to serve Asheville’s low-income residents.
Since then the organization has provided primary medical care to adults and children who are residents of Buncombe County regardless of their ability to pay. The organization also provides specialty care to an 18-county region of western North Carolina. In January of this year Buncombe County contracted with WNCCHS to take on many of the services the County health department had long provided; as a result the nonprofit has now expanded its care community to serve all residents of Buncombe County.
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