(NaturalNews) The Consumer Wellness Center, led by Executive Director Mike Adams (editor of NaturalNews), has announced its fourth grant in its
Nutrition Grant Program. The Consumer Wellness Center (CWC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to promoting nutrition education. The Executive Director position is a non-paid position.
Our Nutrition Grant Program awards $1,000 grants to individuals or institutions dedicated to the promotion and sharing of nutritional knowledge among children, expectant
mothers and other important groups.
The
grants are awarded based on the number of people that can be positively impacted, the detail of the grant proposal and the enthusiasm and commitment of the teacher or administrator using the funds. Each award recipient is asked to report the results of the grant program to the CWC. Our intention is then to post these
nutrition "success stories" on NaturalNews.com so that the most effective strategies of
nutrition education can be shared with the world.
Parenting and Pregnant Teen Program in California
Our fourth
Consumer Wellness Center Nutritional grant of $1000 has been awarded to Claire Martin, English and Parenting teacher, at McAlister High School for Pregnant and Parenting Teens, a 501(c)3 non-profit located in Reseda,
California.
The Consumer Wellness Center grant will enable Claire Martin to create an educational program that will focus on teaching pregnant teenage mothers how to make
healthy food and nutritional
choices. This education will serve to better the
health of both mother and
child; specifically, it will aim to decrease the severe rise of obesity and
diabetes seen at McAlister in the last eighteen years.
The grant reward will provide nutrition education both in and out of the classroom. First, teen mothers will attend classes on
healthy cooking and food preparation. Then, each student will receive to take home a children's whole foods cookbook that will teach both mom and child how to prepare fresh and nutritious meals daily.
Using the children's cookbook, Claire Martin intends to promote an early introduction in to both good nutritional practices and parent/child
reading experiences. Nutritional eating affords health, and early reading with a child develops a foundation for educational success. The time spent reading the cookbook with their
children, making the recipes and discussing healthy
food choices will help create that important bond between parent and child, which will promote holistic health – body, mind and heart.
Claire has committed to report back to the Consumer Wellness Center with photographs of her mothers and
babies and with testimonies regarding the impact of whole food education. She has also promised letters from the
students about their various class presentations.
Background on Claire Martin and McAlister High for Pregnant and Parenting Teens
Because of the overabundance of FDA-approved toxic-laden foods that stock the convenience stores where these financially disadvantaged girls typically grocery shop, Claire's students generally have poor diets consisting mostly of excess amounts of salt, fat and sugar. They become entrapped within a downward spiral. The mothers begin their pregnancies overweight and pre-diabetic. Most continue to gain more
weight than necessary throughout their pregnancy, and many develop gestational diabetes posing serious danger to both themselves and their children. These poor food choices then continue as they are passed on in the daily lives of their children.
Every school year, Claire Martin and the Pregnant Teen Parenting Program shepherds more than one hundred disadvantaged young mothers and their babies through pregnancy, birth and young parenthood. This Parenting Program has been active and successful since the 1960s, and Claire has been at the helm since the early 1990s. Claire continually provides choices, opportunities, and hope. Now with the nutritional education provided by the grant reward, Claire's
teens and their infants will have a chance at an even brighter future – one of increased health and literacy.
Congratulations to Claire Martin of McAlister High School for Pregnant and Parenting Teens for earning our fourth $1,000 nutrition grant from the Consumer Wellness Center.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning journalist with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In 2010, Adams launched NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video site featuring videos on holistic health and green living. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and pursues hobbies such as martial arts, Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening. Known by his callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his missions statements, health statistics and health photos at www.HealthRanger.org
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