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Healthy Eating Research A national program supporting research to promote healthy eating among children.

Healthy Eating Research issues calls for proposals (CFPs) on a variety of topics related to environmental and policy research and solicits scientifically rigorous, solution-oriented proposals from investigators representing diverse disciplines and backgrounds. The program's overall aims are to identify strategies likely to have important population-level impacts and to provide decision- and policy

-makers with evidence to guide and accelerate effective action to promote healthy eating among children, especially among lower-income and racial and ethnic minority population groups that are at highest risk for poor health and well-being and nutrition-related health disparities.

The Food Research & Action Center has compiled an overview of research on SNAP and its impacts on food security, nutriti...
09/03/2026

The Food Research & Action Center has compiled an overview of research on SNAP and its impacts on food security, nutrition, health, and well-being.

For policymakers and public health professionals, the report offers an important foundation for understanding SNAP as a program with broad health implications.

Read the report:

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest nutrition assistance program in the U.S. Administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), SNAP is the nation’s first line of public policy defense against hunger and undernutrition. FRAC’s report examines the growing b...

Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) have become a growing focus of public health research and policy, in part due to an increasi...
09/01/2026

Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) have become a growing focus of public health research and policy, in part due to an increasing body of evidence suggesting that diets high in UPFs are associated with poor health outcomes.

To limit harms from UPF, we need a consistent definition, which is why this spring HER released recommendations for how to define UPFs for policy.

In our latest blog post we break down frequently asked questions about UPFs and our report, such as:
• What makes a food ultraprocessed?
• How can HER’s definition work for policy?
• What comes next?

Read the full post here: https://healthyeatingresearch.org/2026/08/defining-ultraprocessed-foods-5-questions-answered/

August 25, 2026 | Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity | Defining Ultraprocessed Foods: 5 Questions Answered

New! We're pleased to share this resource, developed in partnership with Public Health Communications Collaborative, abo...
08/14/2026

New! We're pleased to share this resource, developed in partnership with Public Health Communications Collaborative, about understanding ultraprocessed foods.

It explains what ultraprocessed foods are and what research says about their potential health impacts, and offers practical tips to help people make informed food choices.

https://publichealthcollaborative.org/resources/understanding-ultra-processed-foods/

Students don't miss this one! Join HER and NOPREN for the next session of the 2026 Summer Speaker Series for Students. T...
07/30/2026

Students don't miss this one! Join HER and NOPREN for the next session of the 2026 Summer Speaker Series for Students. The topic for the August 5 session is "Career Paths in Public Health Nutrition."

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May 12, 2026 | Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity | 2026 HER NOPREN Summer Speaker Series for Students

Join HER and NOPREN for the next session of the 2026 Summer Speaker Series for Students. The topic for the July 22 sessi...
07/16/2026

Join HER and NOPREN for the next session of the 2026 Summer Speaker Series for Students. The topic for the July 22 session is "Food Policies in Schools."

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May 12, 2026 | Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity | 2026 HER NOPREN Summer Speaker Series for Students

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07/14/2026

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07/10/2026

A logging foreman pulled up to one of my job sites last fall and watched my crew sharpen an entire set of chainsaw chains without a single bench grinder, sharpening service, or file guide in sight. He stood there for 5 minutes before he walked over and asked what we were using.

My name is Dale Kowalski, and I've been running Kowalski Tree Service in rural Wisconsin for 19 years. We service over 200 residential and commercial properties across three counties. Storm cleanup, land clearing, hazard removal, firewood contracts — if there's a tree that needs to come down, we take it down.

I own 23 chainsaws.

Husqvarna units. Stihl units. A commercial felling saw that cost me $1,400 and runs through a tank of gas every two hours.

I've spent more money on chain sharpening over the past 19 years than most people spend on tools.

So when my youngest crew member showed up to a job site last August with something he'd ordered online for $29 and told me it could replace our sharpening service, I laughed him out of the truck.

His name is Marcus Webb. 22 years old. Been with me for 2 years.

Good kid. Works hard. But I've been in this business longer than he's been alive and I've seen every gimmick on the market.

Sharpening gadgets that claim professional results.

File guides that promise perfect angles.

Every single one of them ends up in a bin in my shop collecting dust.

I told Marcus to put it away and grab the real equipment.

He said, Dale, just let me do one chain with it first.

I told him he had 5 minutes.

He clamped it onto the bar of the nearest saw.

No bench grinder.

No power cord.

No sharpening service.

Just a small clamping device locked onto the bar of a standard chainsaw.

I watched him run a file through the first tooth.

The angle was perfect.

I watched him run through the second tooth.

Identical.

Third tooth.

Identical.

I walked over and stood next to him.

He finished the entire chain in under 90 seconds.

I took it out of his hands and ran it across a log myself.

The chain bit like it was brand new.

Not like a freshly sharpened chain.

Like a brand new chain straight out of the box.

I looked at the device still clamped to the bar.

No motor running.

No electricity.

No grinding wheel.

I asked Marcus what was inside it.

He explained that a team of Icelandic engineers had built a precision clamping system that locks onto the bar and automatically sets the exact sharpening angle on every single tooth so the file has no choice but to hit the correct geometry on every single pass.

The clamp eliminates every variable that makes hand filing inconsistent.

Angle. Depth. Position. All locked in. All identical. Every tooth. Every time.

I finished sharpening every chain on the job site with Marcus's $29 device.

Took us 11 minutes total.

With our standard process — driving to the sharpening service, waiting, driving back, or setting up the bench grinder and doing it by hand — we would have spent two hours minimum.

I told Marcus to order 8 more before we left the job site.

That was 7 months ago.

I now have RazorWolf devices on every truck we run.

Here's what changed in my operation.

My crew used to lose half a morning every week to chain sharpening.

Drive to the service. Wait. Drive back. Or set up the grinder. Run every chain through. Clean up. Put it away.

Every week. Every time.

With RazorWolf we clamp it onto the bar, run the file through every tooth in 90 seconds, unclamp it, and get back to cutting.

Sharpening time per chain: 90 seconds.

We haven't visited a sharpening service in 7 months.

My sharpening costs dropped to zero in the first month because we're doing every chain ourselves in the field in less time than it used to take to load them into the truck.

One of my longtime clients — a logging contractor named Bill Harmon who runs crews across four counties — saw my guys sharpening chains on site and walked over to watch.

He asked where he could get them for his crews.

I told him they're not in any store.

The manufacturers refused to go through Northern Tool, Home Depot, or any big box retailer.

They had acquisition offers from major brands when word got out about what RazorWolf could do.

They turned them down.

Every single one.

Because the moment a big brand gets this technology it either gets buried or gets marked up to $120 and sold next to the same useless file guides it makes completely irrelevant.

So they sell direct only.

Online exclusively.

Bill ordered 14 units for his crews that same afternoon.

He called me 3 weeks later and told me his guys had stopped using the sharpening service entirely.

Here's what I tell every operator who asks me about it now.

A professional chain sharpening service charges $15 to $30 per chain.

My crews go through 6 to 8 chains a day on a heavy job.

That's $90 to $240 a day in sharpening costs alone.

Then there's the downtime driving to and from the service.

Then there's the chains that come back with uneven teeth because the guy running the grinder was rushing.

Then there's the chains that get over-ground and lose their depth gauges and never cut right again.

RazorWolf clamps onto any bar you already own.

No grinder.

No service.

No downtime.

No uneven teeth.

No over-grinding.

It locks the angle.

You run the file.

Every tooth comes out identical.

Every time.

Chains last longer because they're being sharpened correctly every single time instead of being destroyed by a rushed bench grinder or an inconsistent hand file.

I've used it on everything from .325 pitch Husqvarna chains to 3/8 pitch Stihl chains to full skip-tooth chains on the big felling saws.

It handles all of it.

I've now recommended RazorWolf to 31 operators, contractors, and landowners I work with.

Every single one has come back with the same reaction.

They're angry they spent years paying for a service that takes 90 seconds to do yourself.

One contractor told me he'd just paid $180 to have 8 chains sharpened the week before I showed him RazorWolf.

He hasn't called the sharpening service since.

Right now RazorWolf is 50% off — but stock is extremely tight.

Last time word spread about this thing the entire inventory was gone in under 6 hours.

It's only available on the official website.

Not in Northern Tool.

Not in Home Depot.

Not anywhere with a shelf.

If you own a chainsaw and you've ever paid someone to sharpen your chain, driven to a sharpening service, or spent 20 minutes with a hand file trying to hold an angle you couldn't see —

You don't need a sharpening service.

You don't need a bench grinder.

You don't need a file guide that still requires a steady hand and a guess.

You need a bar clamp and 90 seconds.

Click below to see if RazorWolf is still available at 50% off before it sells out again.

Perfect Angle. Every Tooth. Every Time.

Ultraprocessed foods continue to be a hot conversation topic! The July 2026 special issue of AJPH focuses on ultra-proce...
06/25/2026

Ultraprocessed foods continue to be a hot conversation topic! The July 2026 special issue of AJPH focuses on ultra-processed foods.

This timely issue features research on health impacts and editorials that explore policy solutions to address ultraprocessed foods. The issue includes research that helped inform HER’s latest expert panel on defining ultraprocessed foods for policy (https://healthyeatingresearch.org/research/ultraprocessed-foods-in-the-u-s-recommended-definitions-and-policies/).

The full issue can be found here: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/ultraprocessedfoodssection

Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity | Ultraprocessed Foods in the U.S.: Recommended Definitions and Policies

Did you miss the webinar presenting findings from our expert panel on "Defining Ultraprocessed foods?" The recording is ...
06/24/2026

Did you miss the webinar presenting findings from our expert panel on "Defining Ultraprocessed foods?" The recording is available on our website!

The panel co-chairs discussed recommended definitions of ultraprocessed foods, methods to operationalize the definitions for policy purposes, and practical policies to reduce widespread availability and consumption of UPFs.

Watch here:

May 27, 2026 | Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity | Defining Ultraprocessed Foods: A Roadmap for U.S. Policy Action

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