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Ever driven down a street, and for miles and miles you don't see a single healthy place to eat? It's all fast-food and chinese takeout? Ever wanted a snack, but the local corner store only... »MORE
(Boston Globe / Jakub Mosur) Novella Carpenter started small, with some plants in an empty lot next to her house in Oakland. A couple of years later, she was tending to a full-blown farm, with... »MORE
When people in a specific area are more than ten times more likely to live to 100 than those who live elsewhere, odds are they're onto something.And renowned explorer Dan Buettner was determined to find... »MORE
Jamie Oliver’s an infamous chef in the UK recently won the TED Prize. It's incredible honor for innovator around the country. His wish: Teach every child about food — Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity... »MORE
Everybody in the free world knows what a First Lady is. The wife of the president. However, a lot of people don't realize quite how powerful she can be. Eleanor Roosevelt used her position to... »MORE
With a little assistance from Catalyst, and other minneapolis youth activists, that could be the headline of the Star Tribune soon. The Tobacco-Free Youth Recreation Program Coordinator, Derek Larsen, approached us at Catalyst asking... »MORE
We traveled around Minnesota to showcase all the awesome and interesting things that people are doing with school food. From making it from scratch in Hopkins High School, to keeping it local with Farm-to-School in St.... »MORE
New do commercials take aim at obesity Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota r ecently gathered inspiring stories from people across Minnesota who lost weight through physical activity and healthy eating. The goal? To feature them in our... »MORE
Really cool story from the Savage newspaper about how they are changing school food in their school distrcit. By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer Savage Pacer December 21, 2009 At a time when popular cafeteria... »MORE
Looks like I was wrong every time I said fast food is bad for you. Or at least, partly wrong. Although McDonald's makes that argument easy, there is still a dark horse in the race... »MORE
We're very excited to announce our new video! We've been talking about it for quite sometime, but we're excited it's finished! It features lots of our awesome students. Thanks so much to Mariah, Denzel, Tamara,... »MORE
The Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District's new "Farm to School" initiative aims to put more local apples, corn and beef on cafeteria lunch menus. By SARAH LEMAGIE, Star Tribune The butternut squash that students at Highland Elementary... »MORE
New York City's public health officials are going after high-calorie beverages with a graphic ad campaign that shows what happens to your body after too many sugary drinks. Sally Herships reports on what this shock... »MORE
Recently, the ever so wonderous Andy B. linked me to a great site, WWW.GOOD.IS. While perusing this wonderful site full of mindblowing information I stumbled across an interesting little Flash tidbit.... »MORE
I don't want to be a Denzel Downer, but, I have some bad news people. Adult smoking is on the rise. According to a study released yesterday by the CDC, Ciggarette Smoking in adults... »MORE
Basically we have the oppurtunity of a lifetime. We are filming a 1 minute video that we're really excited about it, and YOU can be in it! We will meet Saturday Dec. 5th at 10:30am-4:00pm... »MORE
The Obamas planted a vegetable garden at the White House, the first one since Eleanor Roosevelt planted a victory garden there during World War II. Now, the garden is being harvested. So far, the garden... »MORE
We've got a new Killer Quotes presentation to download. It's wicked. It goes over lots of the different quotes we've collected over the years. The presentation has speakers notes and sources as well, it's very... »MORE
We have a new wicked presentation to share. It's popular myths about food, debunked. Check it out! Catalyst Food Myths Gameshow View more presentations from Andy Berndt. Click here to download the Food Myths... »MORE
A hoax presentation from "McDonald's Interactive" brought the house down yesterday at the UK Serious Games Summit, where game developers met to discuss games that are intended to have positive social outcomes. The pranksters --... »MORE