Looking for a new resource to spread the word about unhealthy food and beverage marketing to kids in your school or community?
The UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity has created a set of presentations to help advocates inform their communities on how unhealthy marketing practices contribute to an epidemic of poor diet among youth, and what communities can do to help ensure that their children grow up at a healthy weight.
Among these resources is a downloadable presentation on "Food Marketing to Youth: What's the Harm?", which explains the importance of eating healthy foods, the truth about how millions is spent in unhealthy food marketing towards kids and how to talk to kids and reduce advertising impacts on kids.
Latino kids often see more ads on TV than their white ...
A non-profit committee made up of 12,000 physicians, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), is asking hospitals to re-consider fast food chains and set an example with healthier food options within hospital's facilities. The movement is a play on Chick-fil-A signs that ask consumers to "Eat more chicken", but physicians hold signs asking consumers to "Eat more chickpeas". In a recent article, Angie Eakin, MD, one of the doctors on the ads explains, "Many of the hospitals that host Chick-fil-A are in states with high rates of diet-related diseases, making hospitals part of the overall toxic food environment. Hospitals should be fast-food-free, and patients should eat more chickpeas, vegetables, fruits, and other foods that can promote healing and prevent ...
Eating high sugar diets have been known to cause health risks for many years, but a new study based on nearly 3,200 U.S adults whose diet habits and cancer rates were tracked for more than 2o years, show that 565 people were diagnosed with cancer. In the study, results showed that women whose diets consisted of healthy carbohydrates like vegetables, fruit, whole grains and legumes, had a 67 percent less likelihood of developing breast cancer, compared to women who favored refined carbs like white bread, potatoes and white baked goods. The study also revealed that men who drank sugary juices or beverages were more than three times as likely to develop disease verses men who didn't drink sugary juices or beverages. The lead researcher, Ph.D. candidate in nutrition at New York ...
Getting kids to eat a healthy lunch at school isn't always easy, reports a recent article, however, a program by Cornell University, called 'Smarter Lunchrooms' may be helping kids get excited about healthier school lunches. Using wordplay like "awesome apple" in menus and marketing "grab n' go" meals might be helping kids choose the healthier option first as kids in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) have often opted for the first food offered to them. The program is part of the Smarter Lunchrooms Movement, developed to help guide healthy research-based lunchrooms for kids that are sustainable and low cost. The program aims to provide low to no-cost solutions to help school lunches with managing portion sizes, increasing convenience, visibility, and taste expectations ...
Marketing companies often target communities of color, including Latino kids who are more at risk of not growing up a healthy weight. The Council of Better Business Bureaus announced today, Wednesday, March 16th, 2016, that six candy companies have now agreed not to advertise their brands to kids. These brands included Brach's, Lemonhead, Ghirardelli, Jelly Belly, Mike and Ike, and Welch's Fruit Snacks, all now part of the first companies to participate in the Children's Confection Advertising Initiative. One way to ensure that the candy industry uniformly rejects advertising to children, explains the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CFSPI), is to recognize the progress these companies have made. CFSPI encourages those interested in supporting these healthy efforts, ...
In 2013, Shaun Lee wanted to start a company that would allow people access to fresh healthy foods, in and around San Antonio. Lee's company, Truckin' Tomato is a trailer-turned-farmers market, that delivers online ordered foods to homes in San Antonio on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Lee works with various local farms across the state to pick in season vegetables that are at their peak in freshness, allowing people to have fresh local foods. But some areas of the city are hard to reach with limited funds to expand his business. Working to expand his deliveries, Lee is using a crowdfunding campaign to help him reach new delivery sites in San Antonio and work on ways to address the needs of the larger community to learn about healthy eating and cooking habits. In some delivery ...
For the many students living in Stanislaus County, Calif. (44.1% Latino) fresh local vegetables, and fruits and local meats are becoming the norm. Turlock Unified School District has been working with local companies to connect with farmers that want to stock their cafeterias. Winning the Food Service Director of The Year, Scott Soiseth, also the director of child nutrition for the district, turned the schools nutrition around. Soieseth works with local California producers to bring in fresh foods into the school district, all while cutting food that is high in saturated fats and salts from the menu. "There isn't a single processed item on the menu," said Soiseth in a recent article. Grass fed cattle is nothing new for students who enjoy fresh burgers, and tri-tip. Other ...
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 ...
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 ...
