New Orleans city is replacing junk food with healthier options for all city meetings, vending machines, city cafeterias, and concession stands. Announced at a press conference in February this year (2016) a new vending and food services guidelines is being implemented across the city. According to the American Heart Association, 50 percent of the city's residents do not have access to healthy food resources. The new changes will also allow the city employees and vendors to take part in: workshops
taste tests
employee wellness events
voting for vending food options Easy access to the healthier food options will be available through the Eat Fit NOLA app. "We want to make sure that the residents of the city [and] the employees of the city have access to healthy food ...
Kid chefs take the 2016 Healthy Lunchtime Challenge from Let's Move and Michelle Obama! The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge invites all kids 8-12 along with a parent or guardian to work together and create a unique recipe that is affordable, delicious and healthy. The challenge aims to help encourage healthy eating and cooking among young people across the United States. There will be a winner from each state, territory and the District of Columbia. Winners will be flown to Washington, DC, attend the 2016 Kids' State Dinner at the White house, where winning recipes will be served. Rachel Ray will be at the dinner informing kids about healthy meals and more! Homegrown or locally sourced produce is encouraged in creating the healthy dish. Make sure to submit the recipe by April ...
There are benefits when kids cook with their parents. A recent article from Nutritionist Joy Bauer, MS, RDN, explains the reasons why it is so important to get kids involved in meal preparation. She notes that not only will it help empower kids choices, but also help kids feel more open to new dishes. Bauer offers up these suggestions: A chance to educate & empower.
Scoring much-needed family time.
Open dialogue for understanding a healthy diet.
A growing appreciation of healthy foods.
Reinforcing proper eating habits early on.
Learning about food together. To learn more about Bauer and her suggestions, click ...
"More than 40% of Latino children in the U.S. are growing up overweight, that's almost half of all Latino kids in the country, those kids are at risk of developing serious health problems like asthma, diabetes and heart disease," said Marissa Ortega-Welch of Latino USA on a recent radio show. In the mainly Latino populated school districts of Oakland, Cali. schools are taking healthier school foods a step further, banning junk food from school property. Most schools across the U.S. are working on implementing the standards of healthier school lunches but many kids and or parents still opt for lunches from home, allowing junk food to be a part of school's food environments. In Esperanza Elementary (98% Latino) most of the school kids are under the free and reduced lunches, so ...
A new study revealed that a natural sugar called trehalose helped prevent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)in mice. Dr. Brian DeBosch, MD, Ph.D., a pediatric gastroenterologist found that Trehalose, a natural sugar found in plants and insects, may help combat the toxic levels of fat that can build up in the liver. Mice in the study also lost fat, and had lower cholesterol, fatty acids, and triglycerides, but Dr. Debosch warns that there is still research needing to be done to address whether the mice lost bone or muscle mass as well. Dr. Debosch encourages his patients to always avoid foods like sugar-sweetened beverages that have added fructose as consumption of sugars, especially fructose found in junk food and sodas, can lead to fatty liver disease, diabetes, high ...
Tazeen Chowdhury, Food Services Director at Mt. Lebanon School, is helping to show the nation what kids love about healthy meals at school. Invited to meet with politicians in Wash. D.C, during the Senates reconsideration of the National School Lunch Program, Chowdhury has paved the way for implementing healthier foods into the Mt Lebanon School District. She has been recognized as an example to lawmakers of how a nutritional food program can be implemented for success. Chowdhury said in a recent article that she was happy that legislators and policy makers want to hear from people in the field, the ones actually planning the menus and preparing school lunches. Chowdhury has seen for herself how kids love eating fresh foods at the salad bar like kiwi, avocado, and ...
The taste of food impacts our eating habits and, in turn, our health from a very young age, even from the womb. On Friday, February 26th, Dr. Julie La Barba, a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio and Medical Director of Culinary Health Education for Families (CHEF), presented to and discussed with pediatricians, medical students, and other healthcare professionals in San Antonio how taste and food preferences are formed and how these preferences can impact a child’s diet. Dr. La Barba is committed to building a healthier culture and showing how food and medicine can work together. The new CHEF program, under Christus Santa Rosa Health Care, targets practitioners and teaches them the importance of healthy eating and how taste applies to medicine and ...
A new organic community garden is now growing in San Juan, Texas, thanks to Valley's Destiny Church, Texas A&M Agrilife, Beinestar and Urban strategies. The groundbreaking for the community garden happened on Friday the 15th in the morning as families and kids in the community rallied around with shovels and dirt to grow a healthier community at the Valley's Destiny Church. Everyone took part, even the children, using wheel barrels to move dirt. The garden project was just one of the ways that the community is working together to build a healthier food environment. Share on Twitter: @UrbStrategies @agrilife & a church are working to grow a healthier #southtexas @SaludToday ...
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), more than 17 million U.S. households were food insecure at some point in 2014. Having little to no access to fresh healthy foods is often related to a variety of diet-related health risks. Latinos living in Boston makeup 17.5 percent of the population and are diverse. According to a report, foreign-born Hispanics in Boston come from many countries, but Dominican, Salvadoran, Columbian, and Mexican populations make up a large proportion at 75 percent. According to the same report, calculations of the area also show a continued rise in the Latino population between 1990 and 2000 when Boston's Hispanic population grew 37 percent. Studies show, Latinos neighborhoods often lack access to fresh food vendors, but former president of ...
