Por JOANNA RENTERÍA
EL NUEVO SOL—SALUD
El veganismo es una alternativa contra la epidemia de obesidad entre las latinas. En el 2010, el CDC reportó que el 43% de latinas padecen de obesidad, el segundo grupo más obeso en Estados Unidos, después de las afroamericanas.
By PABLO B. CHÁVEZ
EL NUEVO SOL
Sesame Street characters teach kids to eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains as part of the Healthy Habits campaign in partnership with WIC.
By CYNTHIA RENDÓN
EL NUEVO SOL
A church in Bell Gardens, CA, offers help to one of the poorest cities in Los Angeles County, where more than 25% of the population lives below the poverty line.
By Martha Maciel EL NUEVO SOL En español A simple breakfast that consist of organic eggs and fresh seasonal fruits is not the typical breakfast that children in low-income communities eat. Instead their breakfast might consist of sugary cookies or sugary cereal with whole milk and if lucky they might eat fruits, but unfortunately not
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By: JESUS ARAUJO, JON GONZALEZ, MARISOL GONZALEZ
EL NUEVO SOL
When driving through the urban, lower class neighborhoods of Los Angeles, there is a visible trend that is made up of graphics, billboard advertisements and food. The metropolis is landscaped with several features, including a fast food restaurant that is in short walking distance from an apartment complex, and billboards that will catch your eyes with phrases like “$5 for 5 hot dogs”, “Me encanta,“ with the letter M displayed across the billboard behind a sweet ice tea, and “$1.29 Fish-O-Fillet Fridays are back”.
Sigourney B. Nuñez
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Several cities across Northern California are implementing urban farms to increase food security and access to healthy food in low-income communities. According to community gardeners, urban farms create awareness about the importance of fresh and local food. They connect communities to how their food is produced. Urban farms also have potential to better reflect and serve the food justice cause through strength in diversity.
Nicolaas Koppert
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Versión español
About 40 percent of middle age adults and seniors in this country currently have pre-diabetes. The beginning stages alone can also lead to heart disease and stroke. The silver lining to all this information is that pre diabetes as well as the type II form can be easily prevented.
G. Figueroa, Z. Córdova, J. Reyes>
EL NUEVO SOL
Residents of Kettleman City are fighting the continued dumping of toxic waste in the city, citing incidents of birth defects and infant deaths.
By Brian De Los Santos
EL NUEVO SOL
According to the California Restaurant Meal Program, Vasquez is one of the 53 million beneficiaries of the Electronic Balance Transfer (EBT) food stamp program. “Now I do not have to deprive my son, who is the main beneficiary,” she said in Spanish. “And if my son desires to eat something, I can buy it with that card.”
Video highlights of the Food Justice Panel hosted by El Nuevo Sol and the CSUN club CCNMA/NAHJ. The panelists included: Roberto Oregel, Sergio Mortara, and Josof Sánchez.
By Aarón López and Kevin Mejía
GOOD EXPOSURE CHANNEL
Los Angeles Major Antonio Villaragosa and the City Council plan to cut senior food programs from the state budget. Seniors living in Pisgah Villages’ affordable housing want to express to the mayor how useful and necessary food programs are to them. Two teens assist them in making their voices heard. Together they work to achieve their goal.
Este artículo de la revista estadounidense Dissent expone los devastadores efectos económicos, alimentarios y migratorios del Tratado Norteamericano de Libre Comercio (NAFTA) en lo que se refiere a la producción de maíz, así como el nacimiento de un movimiento de resistencia a estos efectos en México bajo el nombre: Sin Maíz No Hay País. He
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