Salud America! and MomsRising invite you to a tweetchat at noon CST Friday, June 21, 2013 to discuss the new Salud America! research package, Better Food in Latino Neighborhoods. We will discuss how exploring policies that introduce supermarkets or farmers’ markets in Latino communities expand healthy offerings in places like bodegas (small grocers) and how reducing costs of healthy foods can improve Latino families' access to, and purchase of, healthier foods. Please join us to share your comments, resources, or questions by adding the hashtag #FoodFri to your tweets at that time. Be sure to follow @MomsRising, @SaludToday (the handle for Salud America!), and the hashtag #FoodFri to participate. FULL DETAILS
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DATE: Friday June 21, 2013
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With the high rates of Latino childhood obesity, a Latino-majority school district in South Texas is working to improve students' physical activity. The McAllen Independent School District, as shown in this KGBT-TV video, has "adopted" the Peaceful Playgrounds program. The goals of the Peaceful Playgrounds program are are to: improve physical activity; decrease negative behavior: implement a consistent "district-wide" conflict resolution for students; and, beautify playgrounds with new floor ...
New York City has been a leader in adopting polices that fight childhood obesity, and with Latinos as the largest minority group in the City, these policies can make a big difference in the health of Latino children. One way New York City has been helping folks live healthier lives is through ad campaigns targeted at limiting sugary drinks, a huge source of extra calories in children's diets. As part of the Pouring on the Pounds ad campaign launched in 2009, the NYC Health Department has released a new group of ads that warn New Yorkers that a drink may sound healthy but in fact be just the opposite. The new ads encourage folks to replace high-sugar fruit-flavored drinks and sport drinks with low-fat milk and water. Check out all four ads in both English and ...
The organizers behind Transit to Trails recognize that although few people of color visit national forests and other green spaces in Southern California, it does not mean that they do not value parks and green space. Cities that have fewer parks or wilderness areas have higher levels of childhood obesity. That's why Transit to Trails takes inner city youth and their families and friends on fun mountain, beach, and Los Angeles River hiking and biking trips. The project enriches their education about water, land, wildlife, and cultural history, and teaches the importance of physical activity and healthy eating for life-long health. Transit to Trails aims to diversify access to parks and support for green space. Although Latino children in Southern California are less likely to visit ...
The Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) program is a school based physical activity and nutrition program that promotes healthy food choices among children. After CATCH was implemented at schools in El Paso and Austin, Texas the program demonstrated that it had the potential to lower obesity in children. Recently, CATCH was recognized by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for advancing policies and environmental strategies to control obesity. It has been adopted by schools in all fifty states and now offers early childhood and after school programs. The success of evidence based programs such as CATCH suggest that policies to improve physical activity standards for children, could have the potential to significantly reduce and prevent childhood ...
San Francisco is one of 10 cities in the U.S. launching a Play Streets Program. The Play Streets
initiative is a more neighboorhood oriented version of Sunday Streets, a series of events that temporarily shuts down roads to vehicular traffic, in order to promote walking and cycling activities.
The "Play Streets for All" initiative, a collaboration between the SF Municipal Transportation Agency, Livable City, and public health organizations, will target neighborhoods in San Francisco, CA that suffer from the high rates of childhood obesity. In 2012, San Francisco hosted a total of 10 Sunday Street events. The Sunday Streets website provides information about the free events that provide an opportunity for San Francisco residents to be ...
California state Senator Bill Monning (D- Carmel) has reintroduced a soda tax bill that has failed once before. S.B. 622 would impose a penny-per-ounce tax on sugar sweetened beverages in California. The money raised would go toward health and education programs aimed at reducing childhood obesity. Poll shows that more than half of Californians would support a soda tax if the money was used to improve school nutrition and physical education. Check out some frequently asked questions about CA's sugary beverage tax. Follow the ...
Currently, Nebraska does not place as tax on groceries, and that includes sodas and other sugary drinks. One state senator would like to change that. LB 447 would tax all, non-alcoholic beverages that contain natural or artificial sweeteners at the standard sales tax rate, which is 7% in Lincoln. It would generate 11 million dollars to create the Nebraska Healthy Kids Fund to help fight childhood obesity, a report shows. Lincoln Sen. Bill Avery has pitched his soda tax proposal and asked the Legislature's Revenue Committee to include his bill in a tax commission study. The beverage industry and health activists went head-to-head debating whether to tax soda to support health programs. Check out the bill's progress ...
The Sonoma County Healthy and Sustainable Food Action Plan (Action Plan) is a collaborative effort between the Sonoma County Department of Health Services, the Sonoma County Food System Alliance and community stakeholders provides a county-wide framework to stimulate and coordinate improvements within our food system. The Action Plan encourages local governments, businesses, organizations and individuals to commit to specific actions so they can play a role in building a viable food system for Sonoma County that assists efforts to reduce childhood obesity. Highlights of the plan include support for policies that increase point-of-sale acceptance of CalFresh and WIC at farmers’ markets, community-supported agriculture (CSA) farms, and neighborhood stores, develop tax and zoning ...
