Various cities throughout the nation are thinking about soda taxes or working on reducing beverages like energy drinks, and unnatural juices in schools, and city vending machines. Now Raley's, a privately owned and family operated supermarket chain in West Sacramento will be removing name-brand sodas from their stores. The 121 stores are located in Northern California and Nevada under four names: Raley's Supermarkets, Bel Air Markets, Nob Hill Foods and Food Source. A recent article explains the decision to remove these type of beverages from the store was to advance their vision of health and wellness, wanting to "make it easier" for their costumers to make healthier choices. Latino kids ages 0-5 consume more sugary drinks than their peers, and about 74% of Latinos have had a ...
According to a new study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, researchers found that teens who didn't eat breakfast were at higher risks for obesity than those who ate two breakfasts. This is powerful for schools, as many are working to incorporate healthier foods and reduce sugary drink consumption among students to curb the rising rates of students with diabetes, obesity, and other chronic health risks. Researchers do not know the case as to why eating two breakfasts rather than none can help, but one theory was that students would not overeat later in the day, according to a recent article.
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Target is teaming up with various non-profits as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy focusing on wellness. Not only have they been working to make checkout lanes healthier since last year, but now Target is investing $40 million dollars to organizations committed to increasing physical activity and healthy eating for families and children. Partners include Alliance For A Healthier Generation, Common Threads, Edible Schoolyard NYC, just keep livin foundation, KaBOOM!, Wholesome Wave, YWCA of Minneapolis, FoodCorps, Playworks, REAL School Gardens and more. Having healthier food and physical activity in schools, neighborhoods and community areas are essential steps to helping prevent future cases of obesity and helping to decrease chronic health risks for ...
New reports on healthy foods in school meals show that there still remains issues for underserved children of color. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state that many children consume most of their daily calories- a third to a half- at school, making school one of the most important food environments that impact a child's future health. A recent report from the CDC looking at schools across the U.S. from 2006-07 to 2013-14, shows that more schools in the West have the availability of salad bars in their schools than all other regions and most schools serving socio-economically disadvantaged students were less likely to have salad bars. Also revealed in the report, were that many majority-Latino schools were less likely to offer fresh fruit in school meals. Latino ...
In Grant County, New Mexico (49.9 % Latino) many families have little to no access to healthier foods. Some families live in food deserts , where they may live as far as ten miles from a supermarket or grocery store. However, new programs like the Rooted Youth Growing Change may help bring healthy foods into the area with their a new summer internship program. From Silver City's Volunteer Center, the program helps teens have skills in three areas of instruction including hands-on gardening, cooking lessons, and lectures based on themes like food justice, history, or food-as-medicine. Facilitator of the program, Kristin Lundgren, explained in a recent article that the inspiration in developing the program for teens began when she realized that many teens could learn ...
New urban farming policies in San Antonio have helped launch small businesses and urban farms across the city. Including, a new farmers market that has grown into San Antonio's Southside, where many Latino families live in poverty and lack access to affordable, healthy foods, like fruits and vegetables. According to the State of Texas Children report, 26% of children in Bexar County lack consistent access to adequate food, and Latino kids face a disparity in Texas, where rates of food insecurity exceed 30 percent. The foods offered at Urban Farm Stand are at a lower cost than most local grocery stores, explains a recent article, also noting that sixty percent of customers are returning to stock up on fresh local tomatoes, or sign up for the 25$ produce box that can be delivered to a ...
Having healthy eating habits from early ages is important to setting up a healthier future. According to a recent study article, one in five children in the U.S. entering elementary school is overweight, but new research has revealed that the USDA's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program has improved roughly four million children's' diet quality. Researchers funded by the National Institute of Health looked at how diets changed with new WIC food packaging, discovering that children in WIC households had eaten some vegetables while only one in five children, not receiving WIC, had any vegetables. Studies also show Latino kids often face less access to healthy foods in their schools and neighborhoods, resulting in poorer ...
The popular song lyrics found on soda cans and in soda marketing are not the only song being sung. A new song from Mexican band, Ave Sol, released a new album, Dulce Veneno (Sweet Poison), to help bring awareness to the health risks of drinking sugary beverages. A free concert featuring the song, "Sugary Soul" will be featured in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City.
Inspired by The Bigger Picture and the first youth poet who performed live at The Soda Summit in 2014, this project is a counter-marketing open-the-truth initiative to spark awareness and public dialogue about sugary drinks and the diabetes epidemic in Mexico and hopes to support awareness-raising efforts throughout the Americas.
The record is a collaboration among the Mexico City School of the Word of Rock, an ...
A recent article reports that Santiago, Chile is working to combat obesity by providing consumers with warning labels on unhealthy foods. Chile deals with high obesity and diabetes rates. In 2014 an article reported Chile to be the fattest nation in the world, with 37% of boys overweight or obese and girls at 32%. The legislation passed back in 2012, will now be implemented with restrictions on advertising unhealthy foods to kids and also will indicate caloric content with black octagons and warnings showing high fat, sugar, sodium or caloric content. Latino kids in the U.S. also deal with higher diet-related diseases like diabetes and obesity. Studies show that incorporating guidelines in schools that restrict access to unhealthy foods and beverages positively impact ...
