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• Sugar Water Gets a Facelift is listed as a resource in Healthjournalism.org blog post on soda taxes.

• Prevention Institute’s, Juliet Sims , explains the importance of healthful food at school in the San Francisco Chronicle article.

• Prevention Institute’s, Leslie Mikkelsen, questions the new ‘Smart Choices’ food label in this L.A. Times article. Read the letter in response to Ms. Mikkelsen’s comments.

• See the Strategic Alliance report, "Setting the Record Straight: Nutrionists Define Healthful Food," in the New York Times and the Atlantic!

• Leslie Mikkelsen was interviewed about the link between health disparities and the high cost of healthy foods in an ABC News story.

• Prevention Institute’s Juliet Sims and Strategic Alliance Steering Committee member Arnell Hinkle, executive director of California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness Program (CANFit), were featured in the San Francisco Chronicle article, “Budget Brown Bag: Packing a week’s worth of lunches for $20”on September 3, 2008. Click to read the full article.

•  A letter to the editor by Prevention Institute's Linda Shak in response to an op-ed by controller of the state of California, John Chiang, and Strategic Alliance Steering Committee member Harold Goldstein--executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy.

Recently published letters to the editor

• Healthy food environments

Genoveva Islas-Hooker, Fresno

(Fresno Bee, September 22, 2009)

• Fat Tax

Judith Bell, Oakland

(New York Times August 12, 2009)

• How to help stem the tide of obesity

Juliet Sims, Oakland

(San Francisco Chronicle, August 22, 2009)

• Krauthammer preventive-care solution not sufficient

Larry Cohen, Oakland

(Chicago Tribune August 18, 2009)

• Prevention is key

Linda Shak, Oakland

(San Francisco Chronicle, July 30, 2009, A-10)

• Promote health

Katherine Rea, Oakland

(San Francisco Chronicle, July 11, 2009, page A-7)

• School's out: where can kids play?
  Alice Ricks, Oakland
  (San Francisco Chronicle, June 24, 2009, page A-10)

• Open the schoolyards
  By Ingrid Dries-Daffner, Berkeley
  (San Francisco Chronicle, April 30, 2009, page A-10)

• Roads must be safer for everyone

           Janani Srikantharajah, Oakland

              (Oakland Tribune, March 18, 2009)

• Is there a better way to get there?

By Larry Cohen, Executive Director of the Prevention Institute, Oakland

(New York Times, January 11, 2009)