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What My Kids – and The Autism Diet – Have Taught Me About Eating Well

05/15/14
Every Tuesday, I try to write something I learn or take away from raising kids with disabilities. This week, it’s a little more closer to home, in that I’m thinking about how raising my children has directly changed my life.
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Gina Badalaty
Food!

FED UP and MomsRising

05/15/14
Three years ago, we connected over a cold email. Both of us were baffled by the same question - we’ve been covering the issues of food and diet for 30 years and we were still baffled by why the problem keeps getting worse. Why is this?”
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Katie Couric
Blog Carnivals Health Care

Medicaid & CHIP Participation Rates Show Continued Success of Efforts to Connect Kids with Coverage

05/15/14
Recently, CMS released 2012 rates of participation for children in Medicaid and CHIP. For the last few years, our friends at the Urban Institute have been calculating them.
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Karina Wagnerman
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Family Economic Security

Fired for "Leaning In?"

05/15/14
Which is it: Are we supposed to "Lean In" or not? Apparently, "leaning in" can get you FIRED when you start asking inconvenient questions!
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Ruth Martin
Food!

[Good Food Force] Protect the healthy school meal!

05/15/14
Dear Marianne, Welcome to this week's Good Food Force update! Please find updates, resources and action ideas below. 1. The Hot Line: Threats to healthy lunches, and No Big Potato! Healthy changes to school meals are under attack! We're anticipating a new pushback on the meal standards, which went...
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Karen Showalter
Nat'l Women's Health Week
Health Care

Milestones: Five Years Cancer-Free, Five Years of Congressional Women's Softball

05/15/14
It was shortly after my 41st birthday, and only 6 months after a clean mammogram, that I felt a lump while doing a routine self-exam in the shower. I was familiar enough with my body to know that something felt wrong, and sure enough, my doctor confirmed it with those devastating words – I had breast cancer.
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U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Food!

#FoodFri Tweetchat: Fed Up, The Film and Challenge

05/15/14
Another week, another fabulous #FoodFri tweetchat! MomsRising is proud to team up with Fed Up, a film and social action campaign centered around sugar.
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Migdalia Rivera
Nat'l Women's Health Week
Health Care

Health and fitness advice from an Olympic champion in swimming

05/15/14
Health and fitness advice from an Olympic champion in swimming? With three pre-teenage children, full-time employment, and a frequently-traveling husband, I too find it hard to make sports and fitness a priority.
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Nancy Hogshead-Makar
Immigration Politics & Policy

Immigration Reform Cannot Wait

05/14/14
Last Sunday, for the eleventh year in a row, I called my mother and wished her a “Happy Mother’s Day,” but I wasn’t able to see her. I’m one of the estimated 12 million people living in the United States without documentation. As much as I want to see my mother, going home to Honduras could mean I...
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Rosa Anon
Food!

Back Off, Mr. Big Potato Head!

05/14/14
The Big Potato Lobby is trying to throw science and nutrition research out the window and insist that certain foods be placed in the WIC food package, an important health and nutrition program for low-income pregnant women and babies. We need moms and dads to speak out and tell Congress to drop this hot potato!!
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Elyssa Schmier

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