Making Health Equality a Reality: 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

Healthy School Fundraisers - from the Strategic Alliance for Health - pdf

Article about school food in NYC by the Executive Director of City Harvest, Jilly Stephens

NYS Comptroller's Report on NYC Department of Education - School Nutrition (Audit of the SchoolFood Program) - pdf

What's on Your Plate? the documentary film about kids and food politics...

Kelly's blog post about "What's On Your Plate," school food in NYC, and Child Nutrition Reauthorization

Cookshop

FamilyCook Productions: School Community Food Assessment Toolkit

SCHOOL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Physical Fitness Is Associated with Higher Academic Achievement among New York City Public School Students

URBAN FARMING

Urban Farming NYC in the South Bronx with Mr. Steve Ritz

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

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) who is the 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.