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Supporting Healthy Food and Activity Environments

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   Healthy food access and opportunities for safe activity are hallmarks
   of healthy and equitable communities

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   Increasing access to healthy foods and to opportunities for physical
   activity—fundamental components of vibrant communities—is the core
   strategy for reversing unprecedented increases in Type II diabetes and
   preventing a constellation of health problems, including heart disease,
   high blood pressure, stroke, and cancer.  In 2001, Prevention Institute
   co-founded the Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity
   Environments to reframe the issue of food and activity as one of
   governmental and corporate accountability, not just personal choice. As
   staff for the Alliance, Prevention Institute facilitated the
   development of the policy platform, Taking Action for a Healthy
   California, which became the basis of Governor Schwarzenegger's plan.

   Applying a primary prevention lens, Prevention Institute takes a
   systems view to analyzing how myriad policies— in agriculture, land
   use, transportation, economic development, education, preventing
   violence, health, and food assistance among others—influence food and
   activity environments and can reduce inequalities in health. These
   findings, derived from research and practice, form the basis for its
   interactive tool ENACT (Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community
   Tool). Prevention Institute provides policy analysis along with
   strategic support to the Convergence Partnership, a collaborative of
   funders whose goal of policy and environmental change will help
   reinvent communities of healthy people living in healthy places.

   Listen to Prevention Institute's Juliet Sims on Childhood Matters as
   she covers how policies and environments can support healthy eating and
   physical activity for kids, families and communities.

   Listen to Prevention Institute's Linda Shak on a Government Action and
   Communication Institute podcast on how community prevention is already
   working in California to support healthy eating and physical activity.















Resources in This Section

Projects »

   Watch and sign on: We're Not Buying It - Stop Junk Food Marketing to
   Kids

   Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments

   Communities Creating Healthier Environments: Local Mobilization

   Convergence Partnership

Tools »

   Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool (ENACT)

   Local Policy Database

   JointUse.org

Publications »

   Claiming Health: Front-of-Package Labeling of Children's Food

   Fostering Physical Activity for Children and Youth: Opportunities for a
   Lifetime of Health

   Recipes for Change: Healthy Food in Every Community

   Setting the Record Straight: Nutrition and Health Professionals Define
   Healthful Food

   A Practitioner's Guide to Advancing Health Equity

Communities Taking Action »

   New Orleans Food and Farm Network

   Get Moving Kern

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