BLEND announces launch of NuValŪ in area schools
The Sartell-St. Stephen middle and high schools now offer the NuVal Nutrition Scoring System in their ala carte and vending lines to help students and faculty improve their health by making more nutritional food choices. The district is the the first school in Minnesota and the second in the nation to offer the scoring system to students. Learn more

BLEND (Better Living: Exercise and Nutrition Daily) is a project funded by the CentraCare Health Foundation.

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The latest issue of Spotlight on Health includes these features:

• Making a difference one cookie at a time
• Doctor becomes perfect patient following hip replacement surgery
• Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, St. Cloud Hospital expand partnership
• 12 ways to good health in 2012
• Eating disorders: what to watch for
• Caregivers tap into resources
• Nurse midwives provide care for women of all ages