If you're looking for more information on how to build healthy places, check out the Build Healthy Places Network. Learn about topics such as: healthy food
early childhood
education
healthy housing
accessible transportation
jobs and economic development The Build Healthy Places Network is a joint project of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It is operated by the Public Health Institute. Learn more here. ...
Efforts to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables among women and young children receiving food assistance are paying off, according to a study by the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The study is published in Public Health Nutrition. Revisions to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) were implemented in 2009 to offer foods that better reflect dietary recommendations for Americans. Latinos comprise 41 percent of WIC recipients. Rudd Center researchers examined fruit and vegetable purchases made at a New England supermarket chain by households participating in WIC over a two-year period. Fruit and vegetable spending and volume purchased by these households were compared before and after the WIC ...
ChopChop is a quarterly magazine published in both Spanish and English. Winner of the prestigious 2013 James Beard Foundation Award for Publication of the Year, ChopChop is filled with nutritious, great-tasting, ethnically diverse, and inexpensive recipes. It also has fun food facts, games and puzzles, and interviews with healthy heroes ranging from kid chefs to professional athletes to the White House Chefs. Want free copies of ChopChop in Spanish? Right now the magazine is giving away past issues to Spanish speaking/bilingual organizations. Contact info@chopchopmag.org for ...
Exercise is Medicine is a global initiative to make physical activity and exercise a standard part of traditional medicine. Because a growing body of scientific evidence points to exercise as a key way to prevent and treat over 40 chronic diseases, members of the Exercise is Medicine network want to encourage physicians and health care practitioners to get involved with encouraging their patients to exercise. For more on how to get involved with this initiative, visit the Exercise is Medicine home page and view the resources below. May is Exercise is Medicine Month Toolkit- 2013 Exercise is Medicine Action and Promotion Guide Health Care Providers Action Guide Health and Fitness Professionals' Action Guide Introducing your plan: The Public Action Guide ...
A study by researchers at the University of Minnesota and Duke University in Durham, NC, found an association between weekly consumption of sports and energy drinks and higher consumption of other sugary drinks, cigarette smoking and use of screen media by teens. Some results: Regular consumers of energy drinks were more likely spend significantly more time playing video games than non energy drink consumers.
Boys who drank energy drinks averaged about four more hours of video game play weekly, while girls who drank energy drinks played about two more hours each week than occasional users.
Regular energy drink users consumed more sugar-sweetened beverages.
Girls who regularly drank energy drinks were more likely to skip breakfast than girls who rarely or never drank ...
Have you ever shared extra produce from your backyard garden with neighbors and friends? Have you ever been the recipient of your co-worker's plentiful citrus tree? Sharing extra home-grown produce is fun and benefits everyone. A new website is tapping into this phenomenon, connecting hungry strangers with growers eager to get some extra produce off their hands. The site Ripe Near Me aims to connect peeps trying to sell (or just plain give away) their backyard bounty with people nearby. You can search by your favorite fruit, follow someone in your area who’s growing it, and get a notification when it’s ripe. You can even offer to trade some of your own homegrown produce. Launched in Australia, the website is stil in beta and does not have many users yet. You can be a ...
La Semilla Food Center, a healthy food and environment community organization in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is hosting the "Urban Agriculture Kickoff and Vision Meeting" on May 16th, 2014 at 4:30 PM at the Las Cruces City Hall. Learn about urban agriculture, see demonstrations, and taste food samples. Come find out how zoning and planning can support farming and brainstorm the future of agriculture in Las Cruces! Learn more about the ...
Organized by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, The National Soda Summit 2014 will be held June 4th and 5th in Washington, D.C. At this informative, interactive conference attendees will: Learn about the latest initiatives to lower the consumption of sugar drinks
Learn about the progress that’s been made since the 2012 soda summit
Connect with other advocates, from around the country, who are working on lowering sugar-drink consumption
Leave with information they can use to begin changing policies and marketing practices in their community Want to join the conversation? Register for the summit! Salud America! will be there---come see us at our booth and learn about how you can reduce sugary drinks and promote more water-drinking in ...
The San Antonio Mayor's Fitness Council is looking for bright and talented kids who are ready to grow healthy change in their community! Students in grades 5th-12th are eligible to apply for a chance to become one of the mayor's own student ambassadors for the 2014-2015 academic school year. What is a student ambassador? Student ambassadors are leaders who work to improve nutrition and physical activity at their school and/or community. During 2013-2014, 29 student ambassadors represented the city of San Antonio. In 2013, one Latina student ambassador, Brianna Reynosa of Edison High School in San Antonio, TX, brought healthy change to her community by encouraging students and families to join her and her principal in a monthly "walk with the principal night." This ...
