Thursday, June 25, 2009

Resources in NYC

Our REACH Nutrition Intern, Kelly Moltzen, put together a list of food and nutrition related resources in New York City. Look below to learn more about the variety of groups dedicated to helping New Yorkers lead healthier and more delicious lives! You can read more of Kelly's thoughts on food and health at her blog.

Here are the topics covered below, for easier navigation:

Food Security Information
Farmers Markets
Bodegas and Grocery Stores
SchoolFood
School Physical Activity
Urban Farming
Healthcare Happenings
Employee Wellness
Advocacy
Nutrition Education Resources
Recommended Books for Healthy Eating

Recursos en Espanol
Other Websites



FOOD SECURITY INFORMATION


ACCESS NYC

Child Nutrition & WIC Reauthorization Act Slideshow

City Harvest

Cornell Cooperative Extension

New York State Child Nutrition Knowledge Center (where to find Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program, Food Service Equipment Assistance Grants, etc)

NYC Coalition Against Hunger

NYCCAH Free Food Assistance

USDA Report on Food Deserts

World Hunger Year - Food Security Learning Center


FARMERS MARKETS

Bronx Borough President Diaz Announces the Reopening of the Greenmarket at Joyce Kilmer Park

Farmers Markets: Bringing Fresh, Nutritious Food to the South Bronx (Bronx District Public Health office)

Harvest Home Farmers Markets


Greenmarkets

Progress report from Greenmarkets: Food Stamps in Farmers Markets


Gov. Paterson accepts WIC checks at Farmers Markets

EBT at Farmers Markets

NYC DOHMH HealthBucks Program

New York Botanical Garden embraces fresh food movement in The Bronx

Find local foods for anywhere in the US


BODEGAS AND GROCERY STORES


NYC Department of Health's Food Retail Expansion to Support Health (FRESH) Initiative

Article on Expanding Grocery Stores in underserved areas in NYC

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer measuring food retail environment in NYC neighborhoods - pdf

Slide show of NYC Neighborhood Grocery Store & Supermarket Shortage, from the NYC Department of City Planning

Food Trust's NYC Commission Report, on Supermarket Development - pdf

Gotham Gazette: An Outer Borough Drought (July 2009)

City Harvest's Mount Hope Community Food Assessment - pdf

Bronx Healthy Hearts

Department of Health's Healthy Bodegas Initiative



SCHOOLFOOD





HEALTHCARE HAPPENINGS

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand appointed to Ag Committee, to give voice to nutrition


Remarks by President Obama as he announces new Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin

Obesity in the South Bronx: A Look Across Generations. Report from the Bronx District Public Health Office - pdf

Article about the NYC Food & Fitness Partnership's Strategic Alliance for Health

NYC Food and Fitness Partnership - Bronx Campaign for Health

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's Food in the Public Interest report - pdf

US Healthcare system, report back from NW Bronx for Change forum on Healthcare, 6/13/09

Article about NYS Council on Food Policy


EMPLOYEE WELLNESS


CDC Launces New Website to Help Employers Combat Obesity and Reduce Health-Related Costs


ADVOCACY


NUTRITION EDUCATION RESOURCES


CACFP Eat Well Play Hard curriculum

MiPirámide para niños en edad preescolar (en español)

Nutrition education resources on Kelly's blog

Recipe Finder: the SNAP-Ed Connection


RECOMMENDED BOOKS FOR HEALTHY EATING


The Jungle Effect by Daphne Miller, MD

Go Green East Harlem Cookbook


RECURSOS EN ESPAÑOL

Cuidados de Salud (cuidadodesalud.gov)

MiPirámide para niños en edad preescolar

Detectives de la nutrición (para niños)

Diabetes

Prevención de las enfermedades de los riñones

Buscador de Recetas

Fruits and Vegetables from the Hispanic Shopping Cart (Frutas y verduras hispanas)

Salud Comunitaria - blog


OTHER WEBSITES

NYC District Public Health Offices

CDC resources on using Social Marketing for Nutrition and Physical Activity


Dr. Dolgoff's Weigh Child and Adolescent Weight Management Program (can sign up for free newsletter)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Hispanic Foodways

Salud Comunitaria - blog en espanol

NYC resources on Kelly’s blog

NYC for Social Change Facebook Group

NUTRITION ADVOCACY


  • Sign on to the NYC Alliance for Child Nutrition Reauthorization!
  • Tell your legislators to support a Sugar Sweetened Beverage tax! This tax would include not only soda, but all Substantive taxes could change consumption patterns and help to reduce obesity rates, while at the minimum, small taxes could be a way to raise money for public health initiatives. Here's an article about the Sugar Sweetened Beverage tax from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. According to Representative Charlie Rangel (D-NY), past Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, a new excise tax on beverages of 10-cents-per-can could help pay for a new healthcare plan, by raising $112 billion.
  • FoodprintNYC Petition - make NYC food more local and sustainable!

  • Petition to bring back composting to NYC

  • Tell your Representative to support HR 2590, which would extend coverage under Medicare for medical nutrition therapy services to people with pre-diabetes or with risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes. (Right now only care for full-blown diabetes is covered, not prediabetes.) Here are some guidelines for how to contact your Congressmen.