{"id":18326,"date":"2020-02-26T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/?p=18326"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:40:23","slug":"march-nnlm-reading-club-celebrates-nutrition","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/march-nnlm-reading-club-celebrates-nutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"March NNLM Reading Club Celebrates Nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good nutrition, combined with physical activity, can help you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of chronic diseases, and promote your overall health. Unfortunately, social factors such as poverty or inadequate food options may lead to obesity, malnourishment, and poor health. National Nutrition Month<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, recognized each year during the month of\u00a0March, focuses on the importance of making informed food choices, developing sound eating habits, and raising awareness of food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>To spark the conversation, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/all-of-us\/book-selections-and-health-resources\/nutrition\">NNLM Reading Club Book Selections and Health Resources: Nutrition<\/a>. Choose one of the three featured books. Then download the discussion guide, promotional materials and corresponding health information. Short on time?\u00a0 No worries! <a href=\"https:\/\/uiowa.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_06WNH2NRorHNWap\">Apply<\/a> for a free NNLM Reading Club Book kit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18327\" style=\"width: 972px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18327\" class=\"wp-image-18327 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/March-2020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/March-2020.png 962w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/March-2020-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/02\/March-2020-768x569.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food \u2013 Tenth Anniversary Edition by Barbara Kingsolver l<br \/>In Defense of Food: An Eater\u2019s Manifesto by Michael Pollan l Delicious!: A Novel by Ruth Reichl<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good nutrition, combined with physical activity, can help you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of chronic diseases, and promote your overall health. Unfortunately, social factors such as poverty or inadequate food options may lead to obesity, malnourishment, and poor health. National Nutrition Month\u00ae, recognized each year during the month of\u00a0March,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/march-nnlm-reading-club-celebrates-nutrition\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[94,52,9,10,4,11],"tags":[95,119,57,179,178,131,124],"class_list":["post-18326","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-all-of-us","category-blog","category-health-literacy","category-health-observances","category-regional-news","category-public-libraries","tag-all-of-us","tag-consumer-health","tag-health-literacy","tag-national-health-observances","tag-nnlm-reading-club","tag-nutrition","tag-public-library"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18329,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18326\/revisions\/18329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}