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  • The Food Trust - A comprehensive school nutrition policy developed by The Food Trust and implemented in elementary schools in Philadelphia included nutrition education, healthy food requirements, staff training, and family and community involvement. A study found that the effort reduced the incidence of childhood overweight in students by 50% over two years.
    Learn more - Pediatrics: A Policy-Based School Intervention to Prevent Overweight and Obesity (PDF)

  • The Food Trust also has an ongoing collaboration with Temple University’s Center for Obesity Research and Education in order to employ a rigorous study design to document the impact of our community education efforts in corner stores and schools. A baseline study found that students shopping at corner stores purchase an average of 356 calories per visit -- and many visit the corner store twice a day.
    Learn more - Pediatrics: Snacking in Children: The Role of Urban Corner Stores (PDF)

  • Health Affairs: Policy Solutions To The 'Grocery Gap'

  • Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal: The Food Trust and the Fresh Food Financing Initiative

  • The White House: A "Fresh" Conversation on the Future of America's Cities and Metro Areas

  • Journal of Public Health Medicine and Practice: Closing the Grocery Gap in Underserved Communities: The Creation of the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative

  • Time Magazine: It's not Just Genetics

  • Let's Move! - Let’s Move! has an ambitious but important goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation.

     

    Resource Videos:

    Examining Innovative Practices to Improve Child Nutrition: Tony Geraci

    Good Morning America: School Nutrition Program Takes Up Obesity Fight

    Philadelphia Story: The Food Trust - Building Strong Communities Through Healthy Foods - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Video

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