It’s dinnertime in Bayview/Hunter’s Point–a largely low-income neighborhood in San Francisco with the highest incidence of hypertension and diabetes in the city.
You’d like to shop for nutritious food and start eating healthy, but how? The nearest full service supermarket is miles away. You might have to take three different buses just to make a simple salad. Instead–on just about every corner–there are convenience stores crammed with junk food, cigarettes and six-packs.
One group has found that a simple solution to this pressing problem lies with local teenagers, talking fruit and a neighborhood food map.
- A sample page from the Youth Envision cookbook (PDF)
- Youth Envision: Improving Food Access in Bayview Hunters Point, Literacy for Environmental Justice
- Bringing healthy produce to poor neighborhoods, SF Environment
- Findings from the 1999 California Children’s Healthy Eating and Exercise Practices Survey: Intervention Implications and Campaign Evaluation, Public Health Institute (PDF)
- Understanding Nutrition, California Center for Research on Women and Families (PDF)
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