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What is Healthy Food

WEBHealthy food means access for everyone to a diverse selection of nutritious foods that are sustainably grown, harvested and minimally processed close to home. Healthy food nourishes our bodies, cultures, communities, animals, soil, and environment. Healthy food means fresh, unprocessed, local foods that you have to wash to eat.

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Closing the Health Equity Gap: How the Minnesota Food Charter …

WEBThe Minnesota Food Charter Network is supported by the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the Minnesota Department of Health, University of Minnesota Extension, and …

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Access and Affordability: Critical Food Issues in Minnesota

WEBEditor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Healthy Eating Minnesota online network. Visit www.healthyeatingmn.org. Nobles County, in the southwestern corner of Minnesota, produces plenty of food. In fact, it ranks among the top 10 counties in the state in total agricultural production.

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Overview of Network Health and Evaluation Tools

WEBThe Minnesota Food Charter Network is supported by the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the Minnesota Department of Health, University of Minnesota Extension, and the General Mills Foundation.

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Katherine Mackedanz

WEBKatherine Mackedanz. Community Planning Unit Manager, Todd County Health & Human Services. Food accessibility. Access to healthy and affordable food is not only an urban problem—it can also be a significant challenge for rural residents. Every day, individuals and families who live in rural regions face myriad challenges that put them at risk

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New Ulm: A Community Becoming A Beacon to Improving Healthy …

WEBWant to be inspired? Watch the short documentary “The Story of New Ulm: A Population Health Transformation.”You’ll learn that in focusing on the social determinants of health, New Ulm, in the words of New Ulm Medical Center’s President Toby Freier, has “improved by 7% the level of hypertension within a community, … has stabilized obesity, …

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Minnesota Food Charter

WEBFEATURED FOOD CHARTER CHAMPION. For Colleen Moriarty, executive director of Hunger Solutions, the mark of a successful movement is when you’re no longer identified as where you come from, but instead where you want to be. That’s how she sees the food access movement in Minnesota, specifically work resulting from the Food Access …

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Food Affordability – Minnesota Food Charter

WEBThe Minnesota Food Charter Network is supported by the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the Minnesota Department of Health, University of Minnesota Extension, and the General Mills Foundation.

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About – Minnesota Food Charter

WEBThe Minnesota Food Charter is a roadmap designed to guide policymakers and community leaders in providing Minnesotans with equal access to affordable, safe, and healthy food regardless of where they live. This access improves the health and wellbeing of residents and also has the potential to significantly improve the state’s economy.

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Winona County Food Partnership Team convenes to address food …

WEBA healthy diet plays a big role in a healthy lifestyle, and the newly-formed Community Food Partnership Team is working to make sure every Winona County resident has access to healthy, affordable food. The partnership team, organized by Winona Volunteer Services, will meet over the next several months to address food insecurity, or …

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The Charter – Minnesota Food Charter

WEBThe Charter. A roadmap to healthy, affordable, and safe food for all Minnesotans The Minnesota Food Charter is a tool to create healthy, prosperous communities. It offers ways to ensure that nourishing food is accessible today and for future generations. EASY AS 1 2 3 !!

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History – Minnesota Food Charter

WEBHistory. Below is a timeline of the history of the Minnesota Food Charter. Minnesota is following the lead of four other states in developing a Food Charter, including Iowa, Michigan, Oregon, and West Virginia. The Minnesota Department of Health took the initiative to pursue development of the Minnesota Food Charter, and the work of …

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Food Access Planning Guide – Minnesota Food Charter

WEBFood Access Planning Guide. The Minnesota Food Charter Food Access Planning Guide provides tools, resources, proven policy strategies, and recommended planning and zoning language for comprehensive plans, so planners and community food advocates can collaborate to design communities that promote access to healthy, safe, …

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Maria Regan González

WEBContact Us. Maria Regan González. Health Equity Program Manager, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. Food availability. As an undergraduate in Global Studies and Spanish at the University of Minnesota, Food Charter Champion Maria Regan Gonzalez spent a year in Ecuador working alongside an indigenous farming collaborative.

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Food Accessibility

WEBGoals. Stores selling healthy food are located near all communities. Cities and towns provide adequate, safe options to bike or walk to places where they can buy or grow healthy food. Communities offer widely available, and more affordable public, private, and non-profit transportation and delivery options to make it easier to get healthy food.

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What We’ve Got – Minnesota Food Charter

WEBThe Minnesota Food Charter Network is supported by the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the Minnesota Department of Health, University of Minnesota Extension, and the General Mills Foundation.

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