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AFRICAN AMERICAN

  • African American Health Links from US Department of Health and Human Services
  • African-American health resources from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • Heart-Healthy Home Cooking African American Style

AMERICAN INDIAN

  • Healthfinder
  • Healthy Tribes
  • Native American Health Links
  • San Carlos Apache Reservation
  • Sandy Lake Diabetes Project
  • White Mountain Apache Tribe

GUIDELINES AND DISEASE PREVENTION

  • 5 a Day
  • America on the Move
  • Body Mass Index calculator
  • CDC Nutrition and Physical Activity Program
  • Chronic Disease Prevention
  • Healthfinder
  • Healthy food markets
  • Meatless Monday
  • Tips for Healthy Eating

RESOURCES

  • CDC Health Equity Resource Toolkit for State Practitioners Addressing Obesity Disparities
  • The Community Law Center Lawyers for Neighborhoods & Non-profits

SUSTAINABLE FOOD

  • Food Routes
  • Innovative Farmers of Ohio
  • The Food Trust

NEWS

  • 1% Milk Initiative
  • Healthy Eating Plan would add supermarkets in city
  • Increase access to healthy food
  • Keeping Health in Stock at New York City’s Bodegas
  • Low-Income Households’ Expenditures on Fruits and Vegetables PDF
  • Rec centers as the centerpiece of citywide obesity effort
  • Wanted: Inner city supermarkets

HEALTHY FOOD SYSTEMS IN THE NEWS

  • B’MORE Healthy & Childrens Healthy Living Programs Convene at the ISBNPA17 Symposium
  • Reflections on Capital Area Food Bank’s No Junk Food Policy (Big Hunger)
  • Optimal Behavioral Economic Strategies to Increase WIC Redemptions Presentation at the Center for Communications Program (Presentation Slides PDF, Full Presentation mp4)
  • How Baltimore Is Experimenting Its Way Out of the Food Desert (Politico)

HEALTHY FOOD SYSTEMS

The Healthy Food Systems projects aim to improve health and prevent obesity and disease in low-income communities through culturally appropriate educational, environmental and policy interventions that increase access to healthy foods and promote their purchase, preparation and consumption.
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CONTACT INFOMATION

  • Center for Human Nutrition
  • Room W2041A
  • Department of International Health
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • 615 North Wolfe Street
  • Baltimore, MD. 21205-2179
  • Work: 410-502-6971
  • Fax: 410-955-0196

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