Category:
Nutrition
4 Apr 2016
Good for Jobs, Good for Communities, Good for Health in the Commonwealth
Going to the grocery store is something most of us take for granted, but for millions of Americans who live in areas where it is difficult to buy fresh food, that trip is anything but easy. Access to fresh produce,...
4 Apr 2016
Urge House Human Services Committee to Support Nutrition Standards for State Government
We've made great progress in moving legislation through the Senate that would require nutrition standards for food sold and served by Vermont state agencies. But we need your help in urging a House committee to advance this legislation, S.196. If...
4 Apr 2016
NYS Passes Final Budget Agreement, But What's in it for Heart Health?
On Friday, April 1, Governor Cuomo and Legislative Leaders announced an agreement on a final state budget totaling approximately $147 billion dollars. Built-in to the agreement were several hot ticket items including Paid Family Leave, $15 minimum wage, and an...
7 Mar 2016
When Lunch Exceeds Daily Limits
I was planning to order lunch from a national chain restaurant, so I did a bit of research. At the American Heart Association, we try to provide healthy food at meetings and events. I recently decided to replace the dark...
1 Mar 2016
Healthy Vending and Marketing Bill in CT
The American Heart Association was successful in having a bill raised in the Public Health committee that seeks to require a study of food dispensed in vending machines maintained on state property, with the goal of ensuring that the machines...
29 Feb 2016
Healthier Vending in the Commonwealth
On the one hand, states fund obesity and chronic disease prevention. On the other, they serve and sell soda, chips, candy, and other foods that promote obesity and disease. Food service guidelines help to address this contradiction. States across the...
24 Feb 2016
UPDATE - A Victory Against #SneakySalt
Salt likely won't be sneaking around restaurant menus in New York City any more - thanks to a ruling by the State Supreme Court that upheld the city's Sodium Warning Label. This law requires that any food item or meal...
17 Feb 2016
Want to keep the kids busy this week AND help out the AHA?
Did you know 32 out of the 62 New York State counties are struggling with access to healthy food? That is roughly 1.7 million New Yorkers who lack access to stores with healthy food options. And poor nutrition can lead...
17 Feb 2016
New State healthy food access report, Healthy Food = Healthy Economy, is now available!
A new report released last week by a group of New York State coalition partners sheds light on the efforts to improve access to healthy food and how more work needs to be done. The report, Healthy Food = Healthy...
8 Feb 2016
Why do restaurants make it so difficult?
It's been a long day. You started off before dawn, ran the kids out of the house, dropped them off at school, put in a full day's work, picked the kids up at their after-school program and have just a few...