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Background Materials for PETRICHOR Salon Event:

NUTRITION

May 14, 2015

Nutrition: Nourishment for all Angelenos

 

 

Articles and Fact Sheets:

 

Overcoming Obesity: An initial economic analysis

 

"What Ferguson can teach the food movement" - helpful orientation for how disparities in access to food relates to larger movement for racial justice/racial equity

 

Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States

 

The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environments

 

A Framework for Public Health Action: The Health Impact Pyramid

 

The Hunger Wars: Fighting for Food in Southern California

 

Healthy Food Access Portal by PolicyLink

 

Good Food For All Agenda (2010) by the LA Food Policy Council

 

LA Food System Snapshot (2013) by the LA Food Policy Council

 

Food Justice by Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi 

 

South L.A. ban on new fast-food restaurants has little effect

 

 

 

Videos:

 

Our Food Chain Documentary Trailer (full one-hour documentary and password: OFC)

 

 

The 19th Annual UCLA Health Care Symposium: "A Gut Reaction to Obesity" The Impact of Diet, the Microbiome, and the Environment featuring Michael Moss author of Salt, Sugar Fat, and Drs. Emeran Mayer, Paul Simon and Wendy Slusser

 

 

Ron Finley's TED Talk: "A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA"

 

 

Creating the Broccoli Craze

 

 

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