Tarrant County

Media
National and local food issues:
National Food issues: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2014/10/food-policyaction-rates-congress-on-food-issues/

Hunger
Food aid
Food labeling
Farm subsidies
Sustainable farming

Access to Affordable, Healthy Food Returns to Camden. Camden residents

in October of 2014 celebrated the opening of a new Price Rite supermarket in
their community, a project that brings back access to healthy foods in
underserved communities across the state.
http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/articles-and-news/2014/10/access-toaffordable--healthy-food-returns-to-camden.html
Promoting A Green Culture of Health: Instead of Wasting Food, Getting it
to Those Who Need It. About 1 in 10 U.S. households have food-insecure
childrenan equally appalling reality in a country that wastes an estimated
30 to 40 percent of its food supply, or a whopping 133 billion pounds of food
in 2010 alone. In Californias Orange County the Waste Not Orange County
Coalition, a public-private partnership, has worked to boost donations to local
food pantries of surplus healthy food from local restaurants, grocery stores
and other facilities was created in 2012. The organization uses food that
would be tossed out every day to feed the nearly 380,000 local residents
almost half of them childrenwho are deemed food insecure.
http://www.rwjf.org/en/culture-of-health/2014/06/promoting_a_green.html
By Ounce or By Calorie. U.S. policy-makers often propose taxes on sugarsweetened beverages (SSBs) as a method of combating obesity. Ideally, an
SSB tax would encourage reduction in SSB consumption at minimal cost to
consumers, but no city or state has so far implemented one effectively. Most
current SSB tax proposals are per volume (per ounce).
http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2014/06/by-ounce-or-by-calorie.html
Local food issues:
http://access.tarrantcounty.com/content/main/en/commissioner-1/programsinitiatives/food-policy-council.html

Hunger
Food aid
Food desserts
Access to healthy affordable foods
Food insecurity

Food truck to offer new option to KISD high schools. http://www.startelegram.com/news/local/community/keller-citizen/article26727055.html

Heightened need drives food bank expansion Food pantry leaders said
theyre distributing twice as much food as they did five years ago.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fortworth/article3874767.html
Pantry workers are seeing more hungry people because of federal cuts.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fortworth/article3839098.html

Analysis of food advertisements:

This particular study used content analysis to examine the food ads
appearing in four issues each of six different parenting and family
magazines from 2008. The study identified 476 food ads with snack
foods being the ads most frequently observed food, followed by dairy
products. They found that some ads promoted foods as healthy (14
%) and some made specific health claims (18 %), such as asserting
the product would help lower cholesterol. After going and looking at
the products advertised they found over half (55.9 %) of the products
advertised were products of poor nutritional quality based on total fat,
saturated fat, sodium, protein, sugar and fiber contents.
o http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPHN
%2FPHN16_12%2FS1368980012005216a.pdf&code=cc121af02c
f8fa5281bc6fe8a66d382c
This study looked at 553 food advertisements appearing during 101.5
prime-time television hours and found that more food advertisements
appeared during African American programs than general market
programs. The African American advertisements were more likely to be
for fast food, candy, soda, or meat and less likely to be for cereals,
grains and pasta, fruits and vegetables, dessert, or alcohol. Of all of
the food advertisements, 14.9% made a weight-related nutritional
claim. They found more claims related to fat content appeared during
African American programming, whereas more light and lean claims
appeared in general market advertisements.
o http://www.jneb.org/article/S1499-4046(06)60245-5/abstract

In fact, a recent study published in the Journal of the Academy of

Nutrition and Dietetics found that, on average, eating foods typically
advertised on TV provided more than three times the amount of
sugars and two and a half times the amount of fat a person should
have in a day.
o http://www.eatright.org/resource/food/nutrition/eating-as-afamily/does-tv-influence-what-your-child-eats
Apps that kids can learn about food groups, nutrition facts, the
digestive system and cooking skills.
o Easy Eater 2- Kids are responsible for naming and keeping a pet
healthy and happy by feeding it the same foods they eat
o Eat and Move-O-Matic- Helps kids to understand the relationship
between food and exercise. The app compares the calories they
eat with the time it takes to burn them off with activities that
range from doing homework to dancing
o Healthy Heroes 1 & 2: Nutrition for Kids- Kids are charged with
saving the city of Yogopolis from Hungry Monsters. Through 36
levels of game play, kids fend off the Hungry Monsters with
healthy foods like fruits and vegetables. Junk foods anger the
monsters and prevent advancement. Kids learn to recognize
healthy foods and eating habits throughout the game.
o Perfect Picnic- Teaches food safety skills with a goal to create the
safest picnic operation in the park. The game encourages
players to wash hands, use a food thermometer to measure
internal food temperatures, keep perishable foods at safe
temperatures and keep preparation surfaces clean.
o Smash Your Food- Let's you smash food to see its actual sugar,
salt and oil content by the numbers compared to what's
recommended
o Veggie Circus Farm- Helps children as young as two years old
recognize vegetables.

Community-food planning editorials/opinions

https://phillyfoodjustice.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/2008_apa_planne
rs-guide-to-food-planning.pdf
http://growingfoodconnections.org/news-item/editorial-by-gfc-principalinvestigator-sparks-dialogue-surrounding-a-department-of-food/
http://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/wpcontent/uploads/2014/07/SSPSummary.pdf
http://access.tarrantcounty.com/content/dam/main/public-health/PHTCVFH/Documents/2014_Tarrant_County_Community_Health_Improvem
ent_Plan_-_Final.pdf

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