Year: 2016
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Health Center Works With Restaurants to Improve Nutrition
Sang Dao, a restaurant serving Thai and Lao cuisine, has been partnering with Health center Operation Samahan to serve nutritional menu items. By Brian Myers Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders are disproportionately likely to develop diabetes and at lower weights and younger ages. Health center Operation Samahan partners with local ethnic restaurants to provide nutrition counseling…
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Health Center Works With Restaurants to Improve Nutrition
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Teen Producers: City Farmers Nursery
By Teen Producers Project Youth filmmakers in the Media Arts Center’s Teen Producers Project create short documentaries with Bill Tall “Farmer Bill” and son Sam Tall of City Farmers Nursery, a local business that supports urban agriculture and surrounding gardens. “City Farmers Nursery supports not only me, but all of my friends and neighbors who…
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D9 Looks to Alpha Project for Homeless Outreach
By Brian Myers San Diego’s homeless epidemic has become more noticeable in City Heights. Bikes carrying trailers of belongings are parked outside the City Heights Library and groups of people with bedding and bags sleep under trees at the Officer Jeremy Henwood Memorial Park. District 9 Councilmember and Council President Pro Tem Marti Emerald says…
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Community Health Worker Academy Targets Latinas
By Brian Myers A weekly public health and leadership training is attempting to fight chronic diseases in low income neighborhoods. The workshops are hosted by Project Concern International (PCI), an organization with programs globally and locally in San Diego. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that chronic diseases in the United…