Last week, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed restricting sugary soda drinks to curb obesity and the soft drink industry promptly fired back, with an ad in last sunday’s New York Times, calling Bloomberg a ‘nanny mayor.’ And when democrats floated the idea of a soda tax in healthcare negotiations, the beverage industry increased its lobbying budget from $1 million to $19 million. Meanwhile, this country is paying $190 billion a year for obesity-related diseases, which is 21 percent of all medical costs, and in certain parts of the country, it’s hard to even find healthy food. But Jennifer says but now some innovative organizations are teaming up to change that, by turning urban blight into a healthy oasis and its an example of “what’s working.” Enter City Slicker Farms and Mandela marketplace.
Jennifer is also joined by Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and president of PolicyLink, to talk about access to healthy food for low-income communities.
