Food and Nutrition
Black communities consistently face hunger at higher rates than other communities due to social, economic, and environmental challenges.
Why Nutrition Matters
The Food and Nutrition Program at The Center for Black Health & Equity (The Center) addresses the interconnected areas of nutrition and health across the lifespan.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, African Americans are more likely to have and die from cardiovascular disease and diabetes, examples of chronic health conditions directly impacted by unhealthy and inadequate nutrition.
The Center recognizes that consistent access to nutritious and adequate food is foundational to physical health, including growth and development, mental health, and intellectual well-being. Guided by this understanding, we advance integrated approaches that promote access, education, and personal agency, affirming quality food and nutrition as essential.
National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity
The Center for Black Health & Equity is a proud organizational member of the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA) working to cultivate champions for nutrition, physical activity, and obesity prevention in Congress and federal agencies. NANA promotes, within the legislative and executive branches of government, a better understanding of the importance of healthy eating, physical activity, and obesity control to the nation’s health and health-care costs.
The Healthy Food Initiative aims to promote informed food choices through implementation of a sodium warning label policy.
Let’s end child hunger throughout the state of North Carolina and ensure every child in every public school in NC has access to breakfast and lunch at school at no cost to their families.
This coalition advocates nationwide so that all schools can offer breakfast and lunch at no charge to their students.
