A Look at Innovation in Nutrition for National Nutrition Month

March is a special month for us at Alliance Healthcare Foundation. First, it’s National Nutrition Month, so organizations all across the nation will focus on healthy eating and living strategies that can greatly affect their communities’ health and...

What’s Health Got to Do With it?

What’s Health got to do with it? This past Thursday, I traveled to Los Angeles to attend the Prevention Institute’s “Primary Prevention for Change” workshop at The California Endowment.  More than 100 public and nonprofit health workers, advocates, policy...

Smile and Be Thankful: Combating Winter Depression

Americans are more depressed now than ever. That’s an unfortunate fact, isn’t it? According to a study from San Diego State University psychology professor Jean M. Twenge published on ScienceDaily.com, “Americans now report more psychosomatic...

Combating Obesity Part 2: Exercise

Last week, we looked at how our diets sometimes lead us straight to obesity, and we highlighted some San Diego-based organizations that are looking to buck the trend. Today, I’d like to focus on a second major cause of obesity: Inactivity According to the World...
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