Category: Nutrition
New catering guide emphasizes vendors’ commitment to using local foods
March 15, 2010A new catering guide will help event organizers at UNC Chapel Hill to find food vendors who strive to use local foods and farm products as much as possible. Researchers at the UNC Center for Health Pr … Read more
Ammerman joins new state council on local food
January 29, 2010Alice Ammerman, director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and professor of nutrition in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has joined a new state council focused … Read more
New training offers evidence-based education without expense
October 30, 2009A new web-based training will give health practitioners, community members and public health professionals access to current and effective strategies to prevent childhood obesity free of charge. The C … Read more
HPDP Research Fellow’s book featured in The New Yorker
July 28, 2009A July 20 article in The New Yorker discussing obesity in America featured Eric Finkelstein’s 2008 book, The Fattening of America. The book examines how the decrease in cost of fattening foods relates … Read more
Picture Me Healthy: photo-based inquiry for youth expression informs policy and environmental change
June 3, 2009June 3, 2009 Picture Me Healthy: Photo-Based Inquiry for Youth Expression Informs Policy and Environmental Change Lara Khalil, MPH, RD, Project Director for Healthy Eating Research Participants took p … Read more
Sustainable agriculture grows at HPDP this spring
February 9, 2009In keeping with its mission to reduce heath disparities, the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) is investigating the links between local sustainable food systems and health. … Read more