Sentences with phrase «health activist by»

I'm a psychologist, healer and health activist by nature who is blessed to love my work.

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It has been a matter of great concern among public health activists who work on child health and nutrition that the issue of malnutrition was being converted into a marketing opportunity to be addressed through products that big corporations could sell as the answer, instead of being seen as a basic lack of access to food caused by structural inequities in food distribution.

As Greenpeace activists cut through the ceiling and absailed into Shareholder Meeting with huge banners and leaflets, Nestlé was held to account for its exploitation of rainforests, for its spying activities and for its failure to abide by baby food marketing standards adopted by the World Health Assembly

11.10.2012 New Franchise for Military Veterans Tackles America's Obesity Crisis Military veterans across the nation are becoming health and nutrition activists by starting a veteran - owned franchise with HUMAN Healthy Vending — the nation's leading franchisor of socially - responsible healthy vending machine businesses.

Outraged by this attempt to block Filipino efforts to safeguard the health of their infants, activists both inside the country and overseas launched a campaign to support the department of health and the implementation of the IRR.

After years of dedicated campaigning by Filipino activists, this summer the Philippines Department of Health decided to implement extremely strong laws on the marketing of breastmilk substitutes, known as the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Executive Order 51.

Intended for use by policy - makers, national breastfeeding committees, breastfeeding advocates, women's health activists and others working for public health in the community, the Resource sets out why breastfeeding in the context of HIV has never been as safe as it is today.

Military veterans across the nation are becoming health and nutrition activists by starting a veteran - owned franchise with HUMAN Healthy Vending (http://www.healthyvending.com)-- the nation's leading franchisor of socially - responsible healthy vending machine businesses.

This came in response to years of lobbying by environmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnival friends.

HUMAN Healthy Vending is the world's first health activist company to distribute high - tech and eco-friendly vending machines that vend only nutritious foods, drinks and full meals screened by a panel of health experts.

HUMAN Healthy Vending is the world's first health activist company to distribute high - tech and eco-friendly vending machines that only vend nutritious foods screened by a panel of health experts.

The organisations also backed the call on the President to step aside and go on another medical vacation to look after his health as canvassed by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), and other activists.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE Three years after its planned closing sparked outrage and protests among AIDS activists, the renovation of the city's Chelsea sexual health clinic is largely completed and the clinic has been seeing patients since March 5.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D - N.Y., joined by, from left, entertainer and activist Jon Stewart, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D - N.Y., and Rep. Peter King, R - N.Y., holds a news conference about the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Monday, March 5, 2018.

On that sweltering summer day, he was confronted by several angry tea party activists aggitated about the impending health care overhaul.

«When he came to Wales, whether he was meeting students, health managers or party activists in Ceredigion, or farmers in the mart in Newcastle Emlyn, whether he was canvassing during the by - election at Tredegar or Blaenau Gwent, he had the same effectiveness with people.

With state budget negotiations making rapid headway towards a final agreement, a proposal that initially would have diverted $ 165 million from a fund meant to help welfare recipients is running into resistance from a scattered group of health care and community activists, according to information obtained by The Record.

Ackerman, 67, who was first elected in 1983, was slammed by Tea Party activists during a series of protests and disturbances at his public appearances for grievances including his vote for President Barack Obama's health - care overhaul.

Romney, like most of the Republican candidates, has largely embraced positions held by party activists: committing to repeal the health - care law signed last year by Obama; calling for reduced federal spending, but no tax increases, to balance the budget; and opposing same - sex marriage and abortion.

In the current climate, the main source of funding for studies of hallucinogens are two private philanthropies: the Heffter Research Institute in Santa Fe, which was founded in 1993 by academics and mental health professionals to finance scholarly research, and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), which has dispensed more than $ 10 million since it was launched in 1986 by Rick Doblin, a drug reform activist in Boston with a Harvard University Ph.D. in public policy.

UNESCO's Executive Board adopted the plan in 2008, but put it on hold last month after protests by human rights activists, scientists and public health experts.

A chemist by training and an environmental activist by avocation, Subra is a true original: «the people's scientist,» says Michele Roberts, a scientist who is a national co-coordinator at the Environmental Justice and Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform in Washington, D.C.

Founded in 1994 by women's health activists, Silent Spring Institute leads groundbreaking studies to identify the links between environmental chemicals and breast cancer, opening new doors to understanding the health risks associated with toxics where we live and work.

While listening to the Model Health Show hosted by Shawn Stevenson, I couldn't help but notice that when he introduced his guest Tero Isokauppila, he gave a nod to the Academy of Culinary Nutrition when he mentioned that he was named as one of the Top 50 Food Activists.

Hosted by Caryn Hartglass, a vegan since 1988, the program includes in - depth interviews with medical doctors; nutritionists; dieticians; cook book authors; athletes; environmental, animals and health activists; farmers; food manufacturers; lawyers; food scientists and more.

Larry Jones, the county's director of health and human services, said the staff will complete its rough draft by Oct. 22 and mail copies to veterinarians, committee members, animal rights activists and anyone else who wants to comment about the changes.

Roaming cats would no longer be picked up on sight, as the ordinance now allows, but would be taken only if there is a signed complaint about the animal or if the cat is not wearing a collar and the owner can not be found.Larry Jones, the county's director of health and human services, said the staff will complete its rough draft by Oct. 22 and mail copies to veterinarians, committee members, animal rights activists and anyone else who wants to comment about the changes.

(Washington, D.C., March 29, 2013) Despite public opposition, the Florida legislature is moving towards approving legislation that would authorize the public hoarding of cats by feral cat activists, in the face of potential public health and property value impacts, as well as predicted high mortality for native animals.

Lead Toxicity Summit: A Public Health Crisis (theatre, 2nd floor) 12:30 pm: Dr. David K. Rosner presentation on the politics of public health and the sociological history of lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSHealth Crisis (theatre, 2nd floor) 12:30 pm: Dr. David K. Rosner presentation on the politics of public health and the sociological history of lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LShealth and the sociological history of lead contamination (Theater, 2nd Floor) 1 - 2 pm: Panel led by NLE's Raquel de Anda on lead poisoning with activists from NYC and Flint, Michigan, featuring Claire McClinton (Flint Democracy Defense -LSB-...]

LaToya Ruby Frazier's show is on view until 25 February 2018 at Gavin Brown's enterprise, and includes programming led by Frazier herself around topics of public health, artistic practice, and community activists.

This encampment explores how the queers and activists who struggled through the crisis of the 80s and 90s are surviving / dealing / getting by in a present marked by gentrification, evictions, the migration of more and more of our lives onto online spaces, pronounced income inequality, the advent of high - deductible health care, and a political climate that asks us to celebrate the legalization of same sex marriage but leave behind many of our radical queer aspirations.

The volume also includes a 10 - page timeline — organized by Barbara Baumgartner, PhD, associate director of the Program in Women and Gender Studies in Arts & Sciences — of women's health over the last 400 years; excerpts from Catherine Lord's online diary The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation; and the first English translation of a 1991 interview with artist and activist Zoe Leonard.

offers an artistic and cultural survey of The Young Lords Organization — a radical social activist group founded by Puerto Rican youth in the 1960s that demanded reform in health care, education, housing, employment, and policing.

To summarize, a quarter century of careful assessment by risk - averse Europe has found no evidence of harm to the environment or health from genetically modified crops, yet environmental activists continue their anti-technology raids and rants.

it played on the back - lash against personal correctness by implying that health activists were simply anti-corporation zealots mired in the past.

Then follows «mental health of leftist activists», an extensive section on bias in social psychology and nmore general problems being addressed by the Heterodox Academy effort, the sociology of single - parenting, studies involving race / gender with IQ, personality, intellectual abilities and differences in interest, genetics and human evolution, enforced gender equality, scientific socialism, eugenics and the zero - population - growth movement, misguided environmentalism, and finally, a bit about climate change, rapidly followed by the «food police» and «diet wars», and then returning to a treatment of the Climate Wars.

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In this environment, any argument that puts risk into statistical perspective — or criticises the alarm generated by sensational copy, anti-nuclear activists and interventions from public - health bureaucracies — looks like advocacy.

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In recent years Planned Parenthood has been the target of activists attempting to portray the organization negatively by secretly videotaping inside health centers and publicizing heavily edited versions of those tapes to the media.

We are backed by more than 10 million activists, donors, and other supporters all working to advance access to sexual health care and defend reproductive rights.

Raíz organizers build deep relationships between Planned Parenthood and the local Latino community by engaging Latino supporters and activists in campaigns that are of strategic importance to the local community, and that have an impact on the intersections of health and access to care.

B. 05-20-1872, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, U.S. social activist who began by organizing and taking part in grassroots movements in her native Kentucky battling for educational and health facilities.