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Local Meat Market Gets Fresher, Inside and Out

September 30, 2013

Atop a hill in East Los Angeles, Ramirez Meat Market has spent three decades as a neighborhood fixture. However, the market hasn’t been a beacon of health. Celia Ramirez, who has owned the store for the last 10 years, runs it by herself following her husband’s death in an automobile accident. Now, with some community help, Ramirez transformed her meat market from a typical junk-food-filled corner store into a place that where the community can find nutritious food options and embrace a healthier lifestyle. The Need to Address Healthy Food Awareness: East L.A. is an urban community that is 96% Latino and has high rates of obesity-related chronic diseases. Small corner stores and meat markets are abundant in the community, but sell mostly junk food and few fresh fruits and ...

Salud America! Gets $2.1M to Expand Network

September 27, 2012

Many of America's children struggle with obesity. That’s why we're excited to announce that Salud America! has received a two-year, $2.1 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) for its ongoing pursuit of healthy changes to address epidemic of childhood obesity across the nation. Salud America! will expand its 2,000-member network and develop a digital infrastructure to support, inform, and empower healthy changes. This digital infrastructure will create content and communications on research, training, and education on childhood obesity to empower people to start or support healthy changes. Please join the network here. “In the midst of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, we’re extremely pleased that RWJF is supporting our unprecedented ...