Sentences with phrase «improve access to healthy food»

About Blog The mission of the Urban Gardening Coalition is to strengthen local food production, improve access to healthy food, and empower folks to grow their own.

About Blog The mission of the Urban Gardening Coalition is to strengthen local food production, improve access to healthy food, and empower folks to grow their own.

About Blog The mission of the Urban Gardening Coalition is to strengthen local food production, improve access to healthy food, and empower folks to grow their own.

-- an event to help raise awareness of the role school breakfast plays in helping improve access to healthy food.

About Blog The mission of the Urban Gardening Coalition is to strengthen local food production, improve access to healthy food, and empower folks to grow their own.

About Blog The mission of the Urban Gardening Coalition is to strengthen local food production, improve access to healthy food, and empower folks to grow their own.

It was really refreshing to see all of the different ways that organizations, institutuions, and individuals are working together to improve access to healthy foods in Washington State.

In January 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, finalized its updated nutritional standards for school meals in keeping with the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public Law No. 111 - 296), which reauthorized the school meal programs and placed an emphasis on the need to improve access to healthy foods in schools.

Yael Lehmann, Executive Director of The Food Trust, said: «The need for improved access to healthy food in New York is considerable, and we are proud to be a partner in this innovative new program.»

Trahan Elementary School will implement a «Breakfast - in - the - Classroom» breakfast program in January 2015 and is currently exploring additional ways to improve access to healthy foods for students.

We work to lower energy bills, reduce flooding, improve access to healthier food, and make it cheaper and easier for everyone to get around.

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Three years after the First Lady kicked it off, Saldaña says, the FreshWorks fund has improved healthy food access to over 2.3 million people.

These 10 red - hot trends represent how manufacturers are cultivating positive change in the world, from improving access to healthy eating to bolstering the very soil our food grows in.

Before taking to the show floor, a small group of exhibitors and attendees at Natural Products Expo East braved the rain in Baltimore on Wednesday, Sept. 13, to lend a hand on the city's largest urban farm that aims to improve neighborhood access to fresh, healthy food.

Many lower - income consumers want to improve their diets, but the access to — and the cost of — healthy food and drink is often an impediment.

Jilly was instrumental in the creation and expansion of Healthy Neighborhoods, an extension of City Harvest's anti-hunger work designed to respond to the need for emergency food, improve access to fruits and vegetables for residents in low - income communities and provide nutrition education to inspire affordable, healthy meal cHealthy Neighborhoods, an extension of City Harvest's anti-hunger work designed to respond to the need for emergency food, improve access to fruits and vegetables for residents in low - income communities and provide nutrition education to inspire affordable, healthy meal chealthy meal choices.

Anna Taylor talks to us about making food policy deliver a better diet for Britain as well as what can be done across the supply chain to improve access to healthy and sustainable diets for all.

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much more.

The D.C. School Food Project's mission is to support and accelerate the school system's progress toward ensuring quality, improving access, and inspiring demand for healthy food in and out of schools in our nation's capiFood Project's mission is to support and accelerate the school system's progress toward ensuring quality, improving access, and inspiring demand for healthy food in and out of schools in our nation's capifood in and out of schools in our nation's capital.

We also made strides in improving the summer meal program to ensure children have access to meals when school is out for the summer and made investments in programs like Farm to School and infrastructure updates in kitchens and cafeterias to help serve more fresh, healthy foods!

The only honoree from the vending industry to make the list, Kelly is featured in the Food and Wine category for his work to improve the nation's access to healthful foods and drinks via HUMAN's renowned healthy vending and nutritional distribution franchises.

The only honoree from the vending industry to make the list, Kelly is featured in the Food and Wine category for his work to improve the nation's access to healthful foods and drinks via HUMAN Healthy Vending's renowned healthy vending franHealthy Vending's renowned healthy vending franhealthy vending franchises.

The Committee also recommends that the State party introduce higher taxes on junk foods and sugary drinks and consider adopting strict regulations on the marketing of such products, while ensuring improved access to healthy diets.

He has been a board member of the Association of Arizona Food Banks for nine years, bringing his child nutrition program expertise to help improve student access to healthy foods.

The expanded use of school kitchens can benefit school districts and their communities by improving access to, knowledge of, and the ability to prepare healthy foods; helping to process and store fresh produce from community gardens; and even supporting local entrepreneurship.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

The program has four main pillars: empower parents and caregivers, provide healthy food in schools, improve access to healthy and affordable food, and increase physical activity.

WIC is a proven effective program that improves birth outcomes, access to healthy food and a child's development.

The USDA's Farm to School Grant Program — originally funded as part of the Healthy Huger - Free Kids Act of 2010 — provides resources on a competitive basis to schools, nonprofits, farmers and government entities to assist in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools.

Mr. Thompson said the City should focus on fighting obesity through other initiatives including improved health education, increasing access to healthy foods and improving recreation opportunities rather than by banning unhealthy options.

Project Moving Forward with More than $ 1.3 Million from New York State, Designed to Increase Access to Healthy Food, Improve Nutrition in Buffalo Neighborhoods

«Oneida County continues to strive to improve our residents» access to healthy foods and areas which allow exercise; and this project furthers that goal through the revitalization of existing underutilized land within the City of Utica into green spaces for food production and recreation,» Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente said.

Improve access to quality, healthy food through the use of New York farm products and locally produced goods to combat hunger while creating jobs and supporting economic development.

They concluded that programs for improving nutrition should consider broader interventions to increase access to healthy food.

The top five things (from a list of 16) that the public believes would improve people's health a great deal are: improving access to affordable healthy food (57 %), reducing illegal drug use (54 %), reducing air, water, or chemical pollution (52 %), increasing access to high - quality health care (52 %), and improving the economy and the availability of jobs (49 %).

Despite the success of the School Food Plan, schools continue to need ongoing support, access to finance and time to improve the whole experience of food for children in school, and create an environment that enables healthy habFood Plan, schools continue to need ongoing support, access to finance and time to improve the whole experience of food for children in school, and create an environment that enables healthy habfood for children in school, and create an environment that enables healthy habits.

There would be longer school days, summer classes, health clinics and access to healthy food for the zone's 3,500 students, in addition to extensive professional development for teachers and principals to improve academics.

Last year, Walmart announced a commitment to create a more sustainable food system, with a focus on improving the affordability of food by lowering the «true cost» of food for both customers and the environment, increasing access to food, making healthier eating easier, and improving the safety and transparency of the food chain.

In October of 2014, Walmart announced a commitment to create a more sustainable food system, with a focus on improving affordability by lowering the «true cost» of food for both customers and the environment, increasing access to food, making healthier eating easier, and improving the safety and transparency of the food chain.

Your support of our work helps more Maryland families connect to available food assistance programs that can help put food on the table, and improve access to healthy, affordable food.

But actually, not having constant access to food should improve and encourage the development of a healthy appetite.

These practices improve access to healthy and affordable food when combined with urban agriculture strategies and to green space for recreation.

Six Outback Stores which had been offering four food and beverage price discount strategies to improve access to nutritious and affordable food and support healthier food choices since 2010 were invited to participate in the study.

Through our outreach initiatives we're taking on important challenges: from helping military families cope with deployments to improving nutrition for households with limited access to healthy food.

Community dietary patterns were found to respond directly to improved stock management and food supply, 5,6 and multistrategy, community - directed nutrition programs in some remote communities resulted in marked and sustained improvements in anthropometrical, biochemical and haematological risk factors for chronic disease.7, 8 Knowledge gained from such studies has broadened the focus of Indigenous nutrition initiatives to include the «supply side» (improving food quality and access to healthy food in remote communities) as well as the «demand side» (promoting nutrition through behaviour change).

Poor nutrition is a major determinant of excess morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 1 contributing to over 16 % of the burden of disease.2 In this issue of the Journal (page 549), consistent with the «economics of food choice» theory, 3 Brimblecombe and O'Dea report that the diet of a remote Aboriginal community was high in energy - dense, nutrient - poor foods — the cheapest options to satisfy hunger.4 This energy — cost differential restricts access to healthy food, and helps explain the persistently poor dietary patterns and deplorable health status of remote Indigenous communities.4 Placing nutrition issues in an economic framework highlights the investment required to improve Indigenous nutrition.4 But what has been learned to date about where resources should be directed?