Winning Post from Week Three Selected
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NWHF Staff
| Posted on: December 31st, 2008
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Once again, the winning post, this time for week three, has been selected by using a random number generator.
We are pleased to announce that the selected post has been made by Tess Swift, who commented that perhaps tax structures should be created that provide a disincentive for junk food advertising that is aimed toward children.
She also emphasizes in her post that there should be “no junk food ads in schools!”
“It may seem odd,” Tess wrote to us after hearing the news, “considering we grew up on a cattle ranch, but the idea of limiting processed and refined foods was instilled in me at an early age.”
“I didn’t always appreciate it then, but I sure do now. I still believe that if healthy eating is learned from day one it will stick with a person forever.”
She adds that she works hard to practice this philosophy on herself, and her five year old daughter, who eats everything she is offered and is a model of good health.
In short, Tess, says, “healthy food policy is a topic near and dear to me.”
Tess has chosen to direct her $500 charitable donation to Nursing Mothers Counsel of Oregon, (also selected by our week one winner) where she currently serves on the board.
Tess works for Mentor Graphics, a company she is proud to say is one of the Department of Human Services’ “Oregon Breastfeeding Mother Friendly Employers.”
Thanks for posting, Tess, and congratulatins once again to Nursing Mothers Counsel of Oregon for receiving another $500 from the Northwest Health Foundation and Community Health Priorities.
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