At least half your grains will be whole grains, like whole wheat, barley and oats.
Look for a whole grain listed as the first ingredient, though there still should be a lot of refined wheat as well as sugar, So in case it doesn’t say that.
Whole grains retain the bran and germ and thus all of the nutrients and fiber of the grain. Look for a product labeled 100percentage whole wheat or 100percent whole grain. Another option is to look for the voluntary Whole Grain Stamp from the Whole Grains Council. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee released a draft of mental health reform legislation this week and invited comments from advocates. Committee plans to take it up on March 16. That’s great, and we’re grateful. Our bottom line is this. We’re not from the government, and are here to help! Fact, the proposal is another good start, and further evidence of a bipartisan commitment to mental health reform during this session of Congress.
Loads of us are aware that there is still much work to be done. Members of the House and Senate need to work gether to make this happen. We recommended a few modest statutory changes -which could’ve a profound positive effect on the lives of our children -to promote integration of educational, special educational, and behavioral health services for children. Including pregnant and postpartum women, we recommended adding a requirement that all entities receiving block grant dollars offer screening and early intervention to the individuals they serve -and that a significant percentage of dollars be directed to people under the age of eighteen, as is included in the House bill, because the reventive Services Task Force has recommended mental health screening for everyone over the age of eleven. Largely because of jurisdictional problems it also does not include Medicare and Medicaid provisions, just like revisions to the IMD statute or sameday billing restrictions.We thank the HELP Committee for this thoughtful draft.
We expressed concerned about Sec. Hope that we’re looking at simply programs that are no longer funded and not programs that are being defunded, we have not had time to review these in detail. We recommended that the legislation include the language in the House bill for the Interagency Coordinating Council to create a plan to end incarceration of individuals with serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance for non violent offenses within 10 years. We recommended replacing the current statute governing 42 CFR Pt. We recommended that all funds saved through enactment of early intervention strategies and through an end to incarceration of nonviolent offenders with mental illness be redirected to support programs included in the new law. Takes an entirely different approach, the draft does not follow the structure of either 1945 or 2646. While relying instead on the current Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation to play that role, it does not include a really new Assistant Secretary. Oftentimes it does include sections clarifying HIPAA and promoting Parity Law enforcement. It also does not include provisions associated with AOT or ACT. It does not include similar new demonstration and innovation grant programs that were in the earlier proposal. We recommended that the legislation result in the identification of ‘short term’ outcomes that should be used in value based payment and population health models to predict ‘longterm’ outcomes.