Healthy Communities Blog

Before Brent Flory, 22, started bagging fruits and vegetables at his local Stater Bros. Market, he picked them at the University of California South Coast Research and Extension Center in Irvine.

Better access to health care and safety net programs would help Farmworkers are a crucial link in our food supply chain, a fact that came sharply into focus during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. To keep these essential workers healthy, there is a need for more data on farmworkers' health.

At the first White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health convened since 1969, President Biden announced on Sept. 28 a national strategy to end hunger in America and increase healthy eating and physical activity by 2030 so fewer Americans experience diet-related diseases.

Marcela Gonzalez, who had wanted to be a physical therapist since she was a teenager, was in the final stage of realizing her dream. But when she started in the PT program at the University of California San Francisco in 2021, a vexing struggle of her undergraduate years came back.

There is much we can learn from a friend who happens to be a horse. Aleksandra Layland Training mustangs is just so much fun, said Aubrielle, as a chestnut-colored filly named Zuri nuzzled the 4-H member from Shasta County. Six months earlier, the young wild horse was wary of being touched.