DETROIT – At Prince Valley Market on Michigan Avenue in Detroit, the shelves are fully stocked and the options are plentiful. Customers say they’re paying close attention to how much things cost everywhere. “Prices are real high,” said Dora Hopkins of Southfield. Hopkins makes it a priority to buy healthy […]
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Burke bringing new healthy food option to area with microgreens, says community reception has been great
Fidem Farms | Photo by Ryan Richardson Daniel Burke was not expecting to create a business when he and his wife Melissa first decided to grow microgreens, which are young seedlings used as nutritional supplements with health benefits. He said he was in the stage of life where he just […]
World Food Safety Day 2022: Date, Significance And 4 Healthy Food Practices To Follow
Food plays a major role in our everyday life. While healthy and nutritious food helps promote overall well-being, unhealthy ones lead to several diseases. To mark the importance of healthy food practices, World Food Safety Day is observed on June 7, annually. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this […]
Why the global soil shortage threatens food, medicine and the climate
Soil can be considered black gold, and we’re running out it. The United Nations declared soil finite and predicted catastrophic loss within 60 years. “There are places that have already lost all of their topsoil,” Jo Handelsman, author of “A World Without Soil,” and a professor at the University of […]
USDA Announces Framework for Shoring Up the Food Supply Chain and Transforming the Food System to Be Fairer, More Competitive, More Resilient
USDA efforts to create more and better markets will benefit both producers and American consumers through fairer prices, as well as address longstanding issues intensified by pandemic WASHINGTON, June 1, 2022 – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing details of a framework to transform the food system […]
Healthy Food Items That You Need To Say No To
Image: Shutterstock Post the pandemic, there’s been an apparent shift in eating habits and more and more people have become conscious of what they put into their body. Many of us have started replacing our aloo paranthas with a healthy protein bar. But, guess what? You’d be surprised to find […]
Rio’s urban gardens produce healthy food for the poor
A man waters vegetables at an urban garden in the Manguinhos favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 4, 2022. Gun-toting youths watch over a street in a Rio de Janeiro slum hit hard by drug trafficking, but walk a bit further and this rough area also boasts the […]
St. Vrain Valley School District’s Latino parents want fresh, nutritious and healthy food served at school
A group of Latino moms in the suburbs north of Denver, many of whom work or volunteer in their children’s schools, noticed many kids weren’t eating their cafeteria meals. A lot of food was wasted. The kids were coming home hungry. “They were super hungry, like starving, so they started […]
Buffalo shooting is a reminder that millions live in food deserts : NPR
A cyclist pauses outside the site of the supermarket shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. With the Tops store closed for the foreseeable future, the community around it has been left without easy access to healthy and affordable food. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Rourke/AP A cyclist pauses outside the […]
Getting children to eat healthy food | The New Times
Over the past few years, as our daughters grew, they started becoming conscious about what they eat, being able to tell between healthy and unhealthy food, and every time they say something is not healthy, I am impressed. Many schools today are able to teach children about healthy food, which […]
Why policy change and innovation are key to expanding access to healthy food
The following is a guest post from Tom Adams, co-founder and CEO of Pairwise, and Kristen F. Gradney, senior director of children’s health at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital. This World Hunger Day, May 28, people are experiencing rising food prices resulting from a shortage of inputs, rising […]
For the founder of San Diego nonprofit Healthy Day Partners, increasing food equity is priority No. 1
The food justice work being done by local nonprofit Healthy Day Partners started by looking at a hyperlocal version of the issue — other kids who went to school with the founder’s son didn’t have the same access to healthy snacks. “I noticed a lot of kids didn’t have food […]