Dignity Health and the American Heart Association organized a free grocery store tour in a Bakersfield, Calif., grocery store to give shoppers information about proper nutrition simple healthy shopping techniques for heart-healthy lives, according to reports by ABC-23 and PRLog. The tours gave tips on healthy grocery shopping and food label reading. Shoppers also learned from a bilingual nutritionist who highlighted the value of eating more fruits and vegetables, and high-fiber products. Check out the ABC-23 video ...
The community that surrounds Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI is an official food desert, a USDA distinction for areas that lack a full-service grocery store within a one-mile radius and are predominately low-income . Many of these folks are Latino. Marquette students and a local church are hoping to do something to change this. An editorial in the school paper calls for the University to turn the former home of Campus Dollar, a now vacant building, into a grocery store. The author makes the case that:
"If Marquette is serious about working to get a grocery store in the neighborhood, the empty 4,000 square feet would be a good place to start. If the university would be willing to subsidize rent initially to attract grocery tenants to the space, profitability concerns may ...
A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and The Food Trust examines marketing strategies that may help parents, caregivers and youths select and purchase healthier foods and beverages at the grocery store. The report, Harnessing the Power of Supermarkets to Help Reverse Childhood Obesity, includes case studies and recommendations about marketing tactics, such as in-store promotions, placement and pricing, that can encourage healthy eating, increase customer satisfaction and help food retailers increase profitability. The report provides highlights from a meeting co-hosted by RWJF and The Food Trust in June 2010. More than 60 public health leaders, food retailers, food manufacturers, consumer product designers and marketers met in Philadelphia to address the vital ...
