Health Priorities, Initiatives & Programs
Healthy Eating
A high-quality diet with appropriate daily caloric intake provides essential nutrients, helps people maintain a healthy weight, and decreases their risk of chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cancer. Evidence clearly associates healthy eating to better health outcomes; however, many people do not consume the daily recommended levels of nutritious foods, such as fruits and vegetables, that make up a healthy diet. The Health Foundation’s focus in the Healthy Eating initiative is educational programs, such as nutrition and cooking classes, that influence behaviors in selecting, preparing, cooking, and eating heathy foods and policy and promotion activities that encourage healthy eating.
Program Lead: Jana Renner
Affiliated Grants
2020 HEAL: Diabetes Education and Support Program
2020 DIA: Empower Program: Pediatric Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes Outpatient Education
2020 DIA: Diabetes Management and Tracking
2020 HEAL: Increasing Access to Healthy Food through the Healthy Food Financing
2020 HEAL: Arbol de Vida's HEAL Program
2020 HEAL: Primary Care Obesity Management: System Integration for La Clinica de Familia
2020 HEAL: Converting El Paso Food Pantries to Client Choice Model (year 1 of 3)
2020 HEAL: Programa de Atención Nutricional Para Niños En Ciudad Juárez
2020 HEAL: Desert Critters Trail
2020 HEAL: CATCH the Eagles, if you can!
2020 HEAL: Girls on the Run El Paso 2020-2021 Programming Initiative
2020 HEAL: Superando el desafío: Regimen plant-based y actividades de movimiento
2020 HEAL: The Learn and Play (LAP) Project
2019 HEAL: "Off to a Good Start: Eating Our Way to a Healthy Life"
2020 HEAL: Southwest Dona Ana Move Trail
2020 HEAL: Movimiento Saludable
2020 HEAL: Edible Education and Community Education- yr 2 of 3
2020 HEAL: Healthy Cooking and Nutrition Education for Tornillo Youth and Families
2020 HEAL: More Counts/Mas Cuenta
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News
New podcast for your well-being
February 17, 2021
Emergence Health Network (EHN) in collaboration with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, and The Meadows Foundation, has launched a new “This is Wellness” podcast.
The podcast is dedicated to conversations surrounding life situations that contribute and can complicate our well-being. Season…
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