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Jim Field discusses a study that shows fans of football teams tend to eat foods higher in saturated fats after their team loses. How to curb your disappointment.
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Mix and set aside marinade. Cut meat into bite-sized pieces or slice in thin strips. Saute carrots in vegetable oil until tender. Remove from pan and set aside. Cook meat until browned. Add peanuts and carrots. Cook one to two minutes. Add peas and cook until heated through and tender. Add marinade and heat until thickened. Serve over hot rice.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The long, circular path taken by a prairie chicken has surprised Iowa researchers. The hen was fitted with a GPS tracker and released April 4 near Kellerton in south-central Iowa. It has logged nearly 1,200 miles since, flying south into northern Missouri and back again, as far north as Guthrie County in Iowa. The bird seems to have settled down in Union County.
Jen Vogel is a research associate at Iowa State University who has monitored Bird No. 112. Vogel says researchers expected the bird to range across perhaps 50 miles. Vogel told The Des Moines Register that researchers “really didn’t expect this distance.” Scientists have been trying to re-establish the birds in Iowa, where they once were plentiful. Bird No. 112 came from Nebraska.
Jim Field and Chris Parks have the call of the game played Friday, August 30th at Clarinda High School.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – An economic index compiled from a survey of business leaders in nine Midwest and Plains states rose slightly last month, the first increase since March. The Mid-America Business Conditions Index hit 53.8 in August, compared with 53.5 in July.
Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says the results point to growth for the final quarter of this year but at about half the rate of the first quarter. The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests growth, while a score below that suggests decline.
The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
A recently released report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows it’s not quite as costly to raise a child in the Midwest as it is in other parts of the country. The agency reports it took between twelve-thousand-six-hundred dollars ($12,600) and fourteen-thousand-seven-hundred dollars ($14,700) to raise a child in 2012 depending on the child’s age. Dr. Robert Post is with the USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. “What we found in the period of 2011 to 2012 is that the cost related to health care, education, to child care as well as clothing actually increased,” Post says. “Those percentages increased and that constituted part of that 2.6-percent increase compared to (2011).”
That 2.6-percent increase was less that the average four-percent annual increase since 1960. Post credits smaller increases in costs related to housing, transportation and food in the period of 2011 to 2012. Mark Lino, an economist with the USDA, says costs also varied depending on where families lived. “We found that families in the urban Northeast spent the most on a child,” Lino says. “Where it was cheapest to raise a child, where families spent the least was in rural areas throughout the country. And the main reason for this was rural areas had the lowest housing costs.”
Kevin Concannon, the USDA Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, is hoping that healthier eating programs will reduce the health care costs of raising a child in years to come. This past year we successfully deployed a new set of meal requirements that are healthier for children,” Concannon says. “Most schools made that adjustment pretty successfully. Many of them very quietly, but effectively, and we’re looking forward to year two now.”
In fact, for the first time in decades, the CDC reports that obesity rates are declining among some young children. Prior to joining the USDA, Concannon was director of the Iowa Department of Human Services.
(Radio Iowa)
Back-to-school means back to practice season for Iowa’s student athletes. Some of those students will end up in emergency rooms with sports-related injuries. Liz Dorland, a spokeswoman for the American Red Cross, says that type of injury accounts for 20-percent of all E-R visits for young people. The agency is offering a series of courses which coaches, parents and others can take so they’ll know how to treat sport-related injuries.
Dorland, at the Red Cross office in Omaha/Council Bluffs, says there are several courses available in the online series, including one specifically geared for teens and adults who will coach at any level. “It’s very highly-skilled,” she says. “It’s developed with the National Federation of State High School Associations. The course covers first aid skills, including breathing emergencies and serious injuries to muscles, bones and joints. We encourage everyone, but coaches especially, to take the CPR/AED course that we offer as well.”
Dorland says the courses were developed to inform those who are involved in sports to be prepared for emergencies. One class is labeled as the family first aid/CPR course. “Participants will be able to learn how to treat any type of cardiac event, breathing, first aid emergencies, until help arrives,” she says.
There is also a First Aid App that is free to download on smartphone and tablets which gives users instant access to information on how to handle all types of first aid emergencies. More information is available by logging on to redcross.org.
(Radio Iowa)