April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online For decades, researchers have studied physical activity and its relation to obesity. Almost no one, however, has studied the reverse – obesity’s effect on physical activity. A new study from Brigham Young University (BYU) …
Dear Colleagues, Are you interested in starting a farmers’ market at your organization or agency? If so, we have a great FREE resource to share with you. In the manual, “Building Farmacies: A Guide for Implementing a Farmers’ Market at a Community …
The USDA has an awesome tool, the Food Access Research Atlas, for those of you interested in data and maps on food access (including food deserts). From their website, here is what you can do with the Atlas: The Food Access …
API kids are being targeted too. Wish there were articles being written about that. — Are Latino kids being unfairly targeted as study subjects for obesity in youth and the relationship to drinking a lot of sodas? There is now …
Posted by Carmen Rojas on Mar 27, 2013 Most conversations about food and low-income neighborhoods center on the lack of healthy food access. Yet these same neighborhoods often face a host of additional interrelated challenges – including inadequate jobs and …
From our friends at Policylink Thursday, April 4 Food Access & Health Impacts: Trends and New Research 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Pacific / 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern Limited retail access to healthy foods affects the dietary …
LINCOLN, Nebraska — The beverage industry and health activists went head-to-head Friday debating whether to tax soda to support health programs. Lincoln Sen. Bill Avery pitched his proposal and asked the Legislature’s Revenue Committee to include his bill in a …
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