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Cowlitz County Board of Health highlights prevention, school nutrition and approves less‑frequent meetings
Summary
The Board of Health discussed prevention-focused ideas including school garden partnerships, a 'Charlie cart' mobile teaching kitchen and coordinated nutrition messaging; the board approved switching to every-other-month meetings, to be evaluated after six months.
The Cowlitz County Board of Health spent much of its Tuesday meeting discussing prevention‑focused strategies to improve nutrition and child health, and it voted to change its regular meeting cadence to every other month with a six‑month review.
Board Chair summarized takeaways from a federal health discussion attributed to 'Robert Kennedy' emphasizing prevention over treatment and urging community nutrition education. "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," the chair said,…
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