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In this issue:
- Cheryl Burke Dance Opening and Shape Up Fundraiser in the news
- BANPAC's Be Sugar Savvy Train-the-Trainer workshop: Thursday, April 18
- Network for a Healthy California Conference on Engaging Communities for Healthy Eating and Physical Activies: April 30th
- Children's Council 2nd Annual Nutrition Night, April 30
- Save the Date for the 3rd Annual Physical Activity and Nutrition Forum: Thursday, June 19th
- Heart of the City Farmers Market
- San Francisco one of America's Best Cities for Walking
- Sustainable Food Systems Strategies
1) Cheryl Burke Dance Opening and Shape Up Fundraiser in the news (back to top)
On ABC: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/entertainment&id=6062926
In the San Francisco Sentinel: http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=11150
2) Bay Area Nutrition and Physical Activity Collaborative presents the Be Sugar Savvy Train-the-Trainer workshop (back to top)
Date: Thursday, April 18
Time: 9am-Noon
Location: Elihu Harris Building, Room 1 (1515 Clay St., Oakland, 94612)
Description: Be Sugar Savvy is a fun hands-on class for adults and children about how much sugar is in the food and drinks they consume everyday. To educate, motivate, and empower Bay Area Residents to reduce their sugar consumption, BANPAC is launching the Be Sugar Savvy educational initiative and the Soda Free Summer campaign. We want you to Be Sugar Savvy and join our campaign! Please register online by April 12 @ http://ucanr.org/besugarsavvy.
3) Network for a Healthy California Conference on Engaging Communities for Healthy Eating and Physical Activities (back to top)
Date: April 30
Time: 9-4PM
Location: Elihu Harris Building in Oakland
Description: This conference will focus on how practitioners can engage community members, especially low-income residents, in the effort to promote healthy lifestyles. From programs to policy change, an asset-based, collaborative approach can help you develop comprehensive, community-based solutions that work. Back by popular demand, this interactive workshop introduces principles and strategies to successfully engage community residents and new organizational partners to improve nutrition and increase physical activity. Participants will explore community development concepts andexamples, learn how to map potential partners and identify their skills, and practice discovering key questions that can lead to multi-level change.
To register, visit: http://socialmarketing-nutrition.ucdavis.edu/training/training_sched.php
4) Children's Council 2nd Annual Nutrition Night (back to top)
Date: April 30
Time: 5-7 PM
Location: Sanchez Elementary School Auditorium (325 Sanchez St. @ 16th St.)
Description: Come and enjoy an evening of cooking demonstrations, nutrition education, arts and crafts, games, healthy recipes, fresh produce, local farmers, seed planting, physical activities, raffle prizes, and healthy food samples. If you have any questions, please call(415) 276-2929.
5) Save the Date for the 3rd Annual Physical Activity and Nutrition Forum (back to top)
Date: June 19
Time: 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Mills College, Oakland
Description: The Network for a Healthy California-Bay Area Region and the American CancerSociety are presenting the 3rd Annual Physical Activity and Nutrition Forum: Physical Activity andNutrition: A Prescription for Good Health
6) The "Heart of the City Farmers Market" (back to top)
may be taken over by the Real Estate Department of the City and County of San Francisco. Concerns have been expressed about losing this local and successful Independent Non-profit California Certified Farmers Market that has been around for over 25 years. If you would like to express your opinion regarding this very important issue, please contact the SF Real Estate Division.
7) America's Best Cities for Walking (back to top)
What makes a city walkable? According to Prevention.com and the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA), criteria including green space, public transportation, crime rates, and pedestrian safety are key indicators of America's best walking cities. This year's panel of walkability experts rated the 10 largest cities in each state and placed Cambridge (MA), New York City (NY), and Ann Arbor (MI) in the top three slots. San Francisco was the only California city in the top 10. Whether for fun, fitness, commuting or errands, walking is the most common form of physical activity, and people are more likely to walk when they live in walkable cities. Yet people living in low wealth communities and in communities of color are less likely to experience key features of walkability, such as ample green space, low crime rates, and good air quality.
Next year we hope the APMA continues to highlight the importance of walkabilitiy but also brings greater attention the intersection of land use, equity and walkability. In the meantime, if you would like to see more information about the study or if you are curious about how your city ranks, click here. For a list of the top cities based on certain characteristics (safe streets, desirable destinations, green space, etc), click here. To learn more about what makes a community healthy, take a look at the Good Health Counts report, which synthesizes the key factors, including walkability, that contribute to community health and health equity.
8) Strategic Alliance: ENACT's Sustainable Food Systems Strategies (back to top)
Communities across the country are recognizing the importance of access to healthy food in order to prevent chronic disease. At the same time, concerns about our current food system have led to increasing interest in sustainable food systems that promote human health, protect the environment, and provide a livable income and fair working conditions for growers and laborers. Compelling reasons exist to link current efforts to improve nutrition and physical activity environments with the sustainable food system movement.
Communities can take action to ensure that residents have access to fresh, local, healthy foods. With funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Prevention Institute has updated the ENACT tool to include strategies that promote health and a sustainable food system.
To find out more, visit http://preventioninstitute.org/sa/enact/members/susagstrategiesnologin.php?7c45972fece327944d2e89d54ec8fbff
