News Media Highlight Research on Healthy Food Access Among Latino Families

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Many news media outlets covered the release of the new Salud America! Better Food in the Neighborhood and Latino Kids research package on Dec. 8, 2015.

The new research package offers an in-depth review of the latest science on the U.S. Latino food environment and policy implications.

KSAT-TV in San Antonio covered the research as part of its Making Awesome Changes series, which partners with Salud America! to feature people who are driving policy and environmental changes to benefit the health of Latino kids.

Here are a few other top stories:

• NBC News: Latino Neighborhoods Have Fewer Supermarkets, Less Healthy Options
• Latina Lista: Research: Latino Families Have Worse Access to Healthy Food
• Medical News Today: Research: Latino families struggle to access to healthy food

See all the research materials here.

Salud America! is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded national Latino childhood obesity prevention network based at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the team behind SaludToday.