Healthy Lifestyle Initiative, University of Missouri Extension

 

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Healthy Lifestyle Initiative

 

 

Community Engagement and

Policy Development Summit

 

 

Producing for Healthy Food Systems

 

What are some of the issues surrounding your policy area?

 

Education

Consumer (Price of food & Where to buy local) & Producer (Extending growing season)

Increase specialty crop funding

Youth growers-attractive career

Increase victory garden

Labor for growers

Crops with less chemicals

Increase access to local produce

Getting products to grocery stores/restaurants

Increase prices

Building cooperatives

 

FOCUS:

Building marketing coalitions

 

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 Healthy Lifestyle Initiative, University of Missouri Extension

Newsworthy

 

 

New publication from the CDC - Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity in the United States

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The Transportation Prescription is a policy guide that analyzes the intersection of transportation, health and equity. This report provides key policy and program recommendations that can improve health outcomes in vulnerable communities, create economic opportunity, and enhance environmental quality.

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Current Health Care reform bill has provision that could provide billions of dollars for walking paths, streetlights, jungle gyms and even farmers' markets.

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UNC-Chapel Hill Researchers:  Those who participate in active commuting have lower BMI, obesity, triglyceride levels, blood pressure and insulin levels in men.

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