Many know Emmitt Smith was as an NFL Hall-of-Famer, but did you know he is also a real estate and construction businessman and community philanthropist? He is now writing on support for Texas to establish a food retail incentive fund that would help businesses expand healthy retail into low-income neighborhoods and booster development. "When I talk about people in low opportunity neighborhoods, I am talking about my parents as we were growing up. My friends and family. My teachers and role models. I am talking about me as a child," he told the Texas Tribune. Emmit wrote a recent column in the Tribune to encourage State Legislature to help families have grocery stores and access to healthy foods. I am a businessman, not a politician. But if running Texas were my business, I ...
National Nutrition Month is all about getting the word out about making the healthy choice the easy choice for all and what better way to do that than to find out how to support all to have healthy food choice options. The American Heart Association (AHA) is working to bring awareness to the Texas Capitol to encourage policy around healthier food access for the unfortunate 3.4 million Texans that simply don't have a choice for healthy food as they deal with limited access to health food options. AHA is asking everyone to support the healthy choice for everyone, by joining them on Thursday, March 23rd in Austin to meet with elected officials to discuss specific legislation that will help increase access to healthy food in underserved communities and help encourage healthier early ...
Families want healthy food choices where they shop. In fact, more than 27,000 people signed our Salud America! letter campaign to ask grocery stores to use labels, floor arrows, and other marketing strategies to promote fruit and veggie options for Latino families. “As a shopper, I know the marketing ploys used by groceries to entice me,” Myrna Mendez, resident of Bloomfield, Mich., wrote in her letter to grocers. “All we're asking for is to use those same marketing skills to promote fruits and vegetables for a healthier nation." We’ve delivered all 27,000 letters to the leadership of these grocery store associations: Alabama Grocers Association
Arkansas Grocers and Retail Merchants Association
Arizona Food Marketing Alliance
California Grocers Association
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Telling reporters and gaining attention from Good Morning America, Michigan mom, and healthy food advocate, Jane Kramer has started a petition towards healthier checkouts for retailers. The mom explained in her online petition, that stores should do more to combat the obesity epidemic, by providing shoppers with healthier foods at checkouts instead of encouraging impulse buys of junk food that are often sold with tabloids as well. Kramer is asking a specific retailer in Michigan, Meijer, that has over 220 stores across the state, to provide children's books along with healthier snack options at checkout lanes. More than 1,195 supporters have signed her petition to help create healthier checkout aisles where kids are often faced with soda, candy, and chips. As Kramers hopes, kids ...
According to a local news article, by this summer local convenient stores and large chain stores who sell food in the city of Minneapolis must offer healthier fresh food options. Most corner stores throughout the nation offer junk foods, that are usually high in sodium, added sugars and low in nutritious benefit- an unhealthy food environment for Latinos- who are currently reported to have the highest rates of obesity in the city (31.7% of Latino Adults Obese) and the overall nation. This new law is the first of it's kind in the nation, hoping to help combat diabetes, obesity, and other diet-related health risks by offering more convenient access and healthier foods throughout the city's corner stores and convenience stores. The law asks businesses to stock protein items, milk, ...
How do small retail stores enhance sales of healthy foods? A new report by Healthy Eating Research called, Minimum Stocking Levels and Marketing Strategies of healful foods for Small Retail Food Stores, reveals ways retailers can enhance sales of healthy foods in their stores. Marketing tips along with stocking level procedures show retailers how to adopt practices to enhance sales of healthier food items. Recommendations in the report were developed by national experts in food retail, nutrition and obesity prevention. Click here to read the full report. Register for the Webinar on the Minimum Stocking Levels Report today by ...
Walking down the grocery store aisle is hard when there are temptations for junk foods and sodas on discount, but what if milk or apples were on sale? A new study was developed to analyze healthy food promotions and how they could possibly impact consumers purchasing power for healthier foods. Researchers developed and analyzed an Eat Right-Live Well campaign placed in supermarkets where healthier foods were promoted through signage, product labeling, in-store taste testings, employee training and nutrition education. The campaign was analyzed through sales data from two supermarkets in low-income neighborhoods in Baltimore across a three year period. Researchers from Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins 's Carey Business School and Center for a Liveable future saw a 28 ...
Announcing back in June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated that over the next three years, food companies needed to get rid of the overuse of trans fats in their products, emphasizing the threat on health and obesity. However, companies like the Grocery Manufactures Association are trying to petition trans fats in some products like cereal and pie crusts. The good news is that many of these food companies have already lowered trans fat in their foods by more than 86 percent. Bad news is that even small traces of these fats are unhealthy, only used for progressing shelf life and in the long run causing high cholesterol and possible heart disease. In fact, trans fats are worse than any other fats for your heart and some studies even say that these fats can alter your ...
Brockton, Massachusetts is considered a federally designated food desert. Food deserts are urban areas where it is difficult to find local farmers markets or grocery stores. Latino's make up about ten percent of the population in Brockton, and around 10 percent of the population is struggling with Diabetes. So how can Latinos prevent diabetes when they live in food deserts? How about offering Latino's a shopping experience where they can change chips for broccoli to get points? Or offering store credit to those whose weight or blood pressure has dropped? Jason Barbosa's family business, New Vicente's Tropical Grocery is making public health history. The new store will offer shoppers a truly healthy shopping experience. “You can’t just run a business and not feel that it’s ...
