Latest News and Upcoming Events

	2009 ArDA "Feed Your Feet" 5K/1 mile FUN RUN
Click here for the video highlights! To view this video an FLV player is required. A free download is available at this link: www.applian.com/flvplayer

 

Time Sensitive Message from ArDA Delegate, Polly Carroll
NEW E-Learning Now Available (On Demand 24/7) $19 ADA members** $49 Nonmembers **ADA members must use coupon code to receive the discounted rate when registering for the program. The price will adjust to $19 after you apply this member discount code. Healthy Land, Healthy Food, Healthy Eaters: Cultivating Sustainable Food Systems Food system sustainability is an emerging area in food and nutrition. This module will offer a clear understanding of food systems and sustainability, illustrate connections between current food system issues and nutrition and health, suggest leadership roles for food and nutrition practitioners in the sustainable food systems arena, and provide tools for educators of future practitioners. Please contact cpdsus@eatright.org to receive your coupon code and visit www.eatright.org/cpd-sustainable to learn more about this new interactive e-learning program.
PPW Update! Webinar Available Online Catch up on developments in pending health reform legislation and reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act from ADA President Jessie Pavlinac, MS, RD, CSR, LD, Legislative and Public Policy Committee members Marcia Kyle, RD, LD, CDE, and Mary Lee Watts, MPH, RD, and staff from ADA’s Washington office.
"On The Pulse" ADA has a weekly e-newsletter “On The Pulse,” distributed each Friday, which provides important insights on current public policy work.
ADA’s Public Policy Workshop Update! Webinar is available on ADA’s Web site:http://www.eatright.org/ppw and all members are encouraged to view it at their earliest convenience.
What’s Most Important Today Contact your federal lawmakers as soon as possible. ADA currently has five Action Alert letters posted on Grassroots Manager for you to contact your U.S. Representative and Senators. Now is the critical moment to express the need for nutrition policies and programs. To have an impact, we estimate at least 8,000 letters are needed on Capitol Hill. Grassroots manager is accessible at: http://ada.aristotle.com/Login.asp?message=&email or go to: http://www.eatright.org/advocacyLogin with your member number and click “Grassroots Manager” on the left side of the page. After you write, encourage your colleagues to write, too.
Health Care Reform The health reform debate is progressing. Both the Senate HELP Committee and the House Tri-Committee bills have been released in draft form, but the Senate Finance Committee has not yet made their bill available. The provisions detailing the cost of the reform and how it will be paid for is not yet decided, and many other details are still being debated. ADA staff continues to meet with House and Senate staff to improve the nutrition provisions included in the legislation. Many of the issues ADA has been working on have yet to be decided. It is therefore too early to say that ADA is pleased or disappointed in the bills at this point. The current schedule calls for both the House and Senate to pass a health care bill in July with hopes that a conference report can be filed in September. This means a bill would be ready for the President to sign probably in October. However, there is ample reason to believe that this schedule will slip.