Diet-Related Health Risks
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The research is clear: place matters. Where children and families live, learn, work, and play affects their health. People thrive when they earn living wages and live in communities with safe affordable housing. They thrive when they have easy access to parks, playgrounds, and grocery stores selling nutritious food. People cannot thrive in unhealthy environments and are therefore suffering from the many diseases and injuries plaguing the United States, including diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, asthma, traffic injuries, and violence. Every community suffers and low income communities and communities of color suffer disproportionately. Unhealthy environments and lack of access to healthcare result in the harsh realities of health disparities in the United States. However, more than 50% of the incidences of the leading causes of death mentioned above are preventable. Providing opportunities for healthy eating and safe, active living is essential to achieving the vision of healthy people and healthy place.
-Prevention Institute and PolicyLink
- Brookdale University Hospital Pediatric Obesity Clinic
Live Light, Live Right
- NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Reports
Diabetes in New York City: Public Health Burden and Disparities
Health Disparities Report
Physical Activity and Nutrition Program
Eating In, Eating Out, Eating Well: Access to Healthy Food in North and Central Brooklyn
Eating Well in Harlem: How Available Is Healthy Food?
Calories and Healthy Weight
Healthy Bodegas Initiative
- City University of New York Campaign Against Diabetes - Public Health Association of New York City
Reversing Obesity in New York City: An Action Plan for Reducing the Promotion and Accessibility of Unhealthy Food
Executive Summary
Full Report
- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health/Project for Public Spaces
Public Markets and Community Health: An Examination
- Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute
Sweetening the Pot
Implicit Subsidies to Corn Sweeteners and the U.S. Obesity Epidemic
- Prevention Institute - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2007
Healthy Eating and Physical Activity: Addressing Inequities in Urban Environments
The Links Between the Neighborhood Food Environment and Childhood Nutrition
- CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Fruits and Veggies Matter
Get Smart with Fruits and Veggies Tip Sheets
- Kellogg Foundation
Key Reports on Obesity
- Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
Policy Reports and Briefs
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Food Without Thought: How U.S. Farm Policy Contributes to Obesity
- Healthy Eating Research
Considering the Contribution of U.S. Food and Agricultural Policy to the Obesity Epidemic: Overview and Opportunities
U.S. Agricultural Commodity Policy and its Relationship to Obesity
- UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Designed for Disease: The Link Between Local Food Environments and Obesity and Diabetes
- USDA Economic Research Service
Can Low-Income Americans Afford a Healthy Diet?
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Racial Bias in Federal Nutrition Policy: Weak Guidelines Take a Disproportionate Toll
- National Bureau of Ecomonic Research
The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity
- Hartford Food System
Healthy Food Retailers in Hartford’s Neighborhoods
