Students film a mother’s struggle to buy healthy food on a tight budget
Sixteen UCLA students have received fellowships for projects that focus on food, ranging from making documentaries to constructing new campus gardens.
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Life in America: Hazardous to immigrants’ health?
Faculty at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health are working to determine why immigrants in the United States become unhealthier the longer they live in the country and promote solutions.
UCLA’s Healthy Campus Initiative helps inspire new nationwide college program
UCLA is one of 20 colleges and universities, and the only postsecondary institution in California, participating in the Partnership for a Healthier America’s Healthier Campus Initiative.
Love at first bite? Not for L.A. school kids and their vegetables
UCLA-led research at four Los Angeles public schools found that many students didn't eat even a bite of the new, healthier items that were added to menus when LAUSD refreshed its lunch offerings in 2011.
Snack on this: Healthier choices score at campus vending machines
A study conducted by a UCLA graduate student found that not only are consumers interested in having healthier items available in vending machines, but that offering them did not hurt the vending machines’ sales.
Home makeovers help families get healthy
A team from the Fielding School of Public Health is working with East Los Angeles families to help them eat better.