Check out these obesity prevention resources!
 The
New York State Prevention Agenda 2013-2017 is the blueprint for state and local action to improve the health of New Yorkers in four priority areas: Healthy Food Procurement, Breastfeeding,
Complete Streets and Evidence –Based Interventions. Visit
DASH-NY to read fact sheets that could be used as tools in bringing services and resources into communities that are disproportionately burdened by chronic disease. Check out
our blog for more information about trainings held in the spring that were focused on these four priority areas.
 The
Center for Evaluation and Applied Research, at
The New York Academy of Medicine, pre-post evaluation of the YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program (Y-DPP) evaluation reveals that participants of Y-DPP's 16- week group based program,on average, lost over 5 percent of their body weight.
 Voices
for Healthy Kids, a joint initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the
American Heart Association released a toolkit on shared use liability,
Unlock the Doors. The toolkit is designed to assist coalitions and educate communities wanting to promote health by extending access to resources for physical activity.
 New
research reveals that people living near supermarkets choose healthier food and make progress losing weight.
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