Challenge of the Month: January

January Challenge: Get Moving! The most popular New Year’s Resolutions are related to exercise: staying fit, healthy and losing weight. That means there is a pretty good chance it is also your resolution! So, this months challenge is an ode to exercise. Exercise may be the closest thing to the fountain of youth. Not only […]

What Do We Gain From Cooking Less? More Health Problems

A look at how outsourcing food production to commercial food manufacturers has led to the consumption of less nutritious food.

Nutrition 101: Scary Places Sugar Is Lurking

It’s almost Halloween, and you know what that means: kids clamoring for candy laden with scary amounts of sugar. Even scarier than the predictable flood of sugar this time of year, though, is the amount of sugar lurking in foods we may be eating every day. Here we round up some of the worst everyday […]

Highlights from E.A.T. Bronx

On Tuesday, July 2nd FoodFight hosted our first ever conference “E.A.T.: Educating America’s Teachers to Lead the Fight Against Obesity” at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. It went beyond our wildest dreams. 150 teachers came from schools all across the tri-state area to get educated about food and its role in their lives. There were […]

Teacher Training