Community Involvement
Food Day was held this year on Oct. 24, 2011
What is it? Food Day seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life-parents, teachers, and students; health professionals, community organizers, and local officials; chefs, school lunch providers, and eaters of all stripes-to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way. We will work with people around the country to create thousands of events in homes, schools, churches, farmers markets, city halls, and state capitals.
Senate Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) were the Honorary Co-Chairs for Food Day 2011, and the day was sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the nonprofit watchdog grop that has led successful fights for food labeling, better nutrition, and safer food since 1971. Like CSPI, Food Day is people-powered and does not accept funding from government or corporations-though restaurants, supermarkets, and others are certainly encouraged to observe Food Day in their own ways.
Food Day is backed by an impressive advisory board that includes anti-hunger advocates, physicians, authors, politicians, and leaders of groups focused on everything from farmers markets to animal welfare to public health. But the most important ingredient in Food Day is you.
Check out more informaiton at http://foodday.org/about-food-day/
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¡Por Vida! Healthy Restaurant Initiative
Por Vida video
For years, San Antonio has been listed in the top 10 most obese cities. This distinction comes with a number of costs. Obesity and diabetes in our community has raised medical costs above the average for Texas and the US. Many of these costs for the indigent are paid for by county taxes. These health issues have also had a negative impact on businesses wanting to move their companies and employees here.
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The Mayor’s Fitness Council and the City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (Metro Health) are working together to fight obesity. In March of 2010, Metro Health received $15.6 million in federal stimulus funds as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) grant that was awarded, also known locally as the Find Your Balance campaign – For your health, your family, your future, focuses on reducing the prevalence of obesity by increasing access to healthy foods and increasing physical activity through evidence based policy, system, and environmental changes in schools, restaurants, and community settings.
Health education and promotion are key in addressing obesity prevention. The Find Your Balance campaign has developed Community Posters to promote health education throughout the city. These posters are available FREE to the public, and can be displayed in physician offices, schools, community centers, work settings, etc. For more information about the various initiatives with the Mayor’s Fitness Council and the Find Your Balance campaign, log on to www.SABalance.org
CPPW now has FREE Community Posters that can be displayed in physician offices, schools, community centers, work settings, etc. Click here to view.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Caroline Roffidal-Blanco, Registered Dietitian for Communities Putting Prevention to Work. (office: 210-207-5377, Caroline.Roffidal-Blanco@sanantonio.gov)
A media hit from our Fuel Up to Play 60 event on KENS5 - San Antonio!
It was great!
http://www.kens5.com/news/health/San-Antonio-student-told-to-Fuel-Up-to-Play-60-130217408.html
