ALL IN For Health and The Children’s Partnership have teamed up with trusted community partners to create a safe space to discuss the future of health coverage in California called “Let’s Talk.” Let’s Talk is a series of conversations that kicked off this month. With a new Administration confirmed, efforts are being made to protect the health of communities and to ensure health coverage stays intact. This series is designed to respond to community concerns and help organize communities to take a more active role in efforts to push back on policies that put at-risk health care access for children and families. To read more on Let’s Talk, click here.

The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation worked in collaboration to produce School Meal Programs Innovate to Improve Student Nutrition. The report is based on a nationally representative survey of food service directors whose programs are successfully serving healthy meals and snack. The report findings are that meal programs increased total revenue in 2014-15 school year. The report further adds insights on effective approaches to implementing updated nutrition rules. Click here to read in depth the research findings. 

Just in case you missed it! Materials and resources from the 2017 CalFresh Forum are now available. California Food Policy Advocates would like to thank the event co-sponsor, the California Department of Social Services, and all of this year’s speakers, presenters, and attendees for their contributions toward making the Forum such a success. Access speaker presentations and other CalFresh Forum materials and resources. link.

The New York Times’ David Leonhardt recently wrote, A Month Without Sugar. Leonhardt cleverly writes, “Like me, you’ve probably just finished a couple of weeks in which you have eaten a whole lot of tasty sugar. Don’t feel too guilty about it. But if you feel a little guilty about it, I’d like to make a suggestion… Choose a month this year — a full 30 days, starting now or later — and commit to eating no added sweeteners. Go cold turkey, for one month… If you give up sugar for a month, you’ll become part of a growing anti-sugar movement. Research increasingly indicates that an overabundance of simple carbohydrates, and sugar in particular, is the No. 1 problem in modern diets.” Read more, here. 

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