A wide-ranging exhibit at the Yale Peabody Museum (co-curated by the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) focusses on the food challenges of the 21st century, including changing eating habits and alarming levels of obesity. This display shows the annual food consumption of an average American. Photo credit: Harold Shapiro
CARE was established in May 2007 to foster rigorous community-based research and to translate scientific breakthroughs into practical benefits for residents of New Haven. In partnership with local health centers and hospitals, the city of New Haven, community organizations, businesses, faith communities, and other parts of Yale University, this School of Public Health program brings together diverse people and organizations to improve health in the city of New Haven. Photo credit: Michael Marsland
George St. Deli’s Elias Jaser (L) and Stacy Spell (R), a community activist cut the ribbon with students from the Common Ground School. Photo credit: Michael Marsland
As part of Diabetes Awareness Day, CARE staff provided information on diabetes, blood glucose testing, and other fun activities for the community. Here a young girl gets her face painted by a volunteer.
CARE's staff at a Healthy Corner Store Launch in New Haven.
A wide-ranging exhibit at the Yale Peabody Museum (co-curated by the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) focusses on the food challenges of the 21st century, including changing eating habits and alarming levels of obesity. This display illustrates the serious health consequences associated with obesity on the body's organs.
Photo credit: Harold Shapiro
Susan Godshall, Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce, participating in the CARE Future Search Conference.
Launching Community Interventions for Health - CARE launched Community Interventions for Health (CIH) at the 2009 International Festival of Arts and Ideas Family Weekend. There were a variety of events and activities throughout the weekend. Here, NHPS Physical Education Teachers play a parachute game with children attending the festival.
A wide-ranging exhibit at the Yale Peabody Museum (co-curated by the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) focusses on the food challenges of the 21st century, including changing eating habits and alarming levels of obesity. Shown here a display on beverage marketing targeted at babies and toddlers. Photo credit: Harold Shapiro
At the launch of Adam's Food Store as a Healthy Corner Store, food activist Tagan Engel distributes healthy fruit kebabs to attendees.

CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement

CARE was established in May 2007 to foster rigorous community-based research and to translate scientific breakthroughs into practical benefits for residents of New Haven. In partnership with local health centers and hospitals, the city of New Haven, community organizations, businesses, faith communities, and other parts of Yale University, this School of Public Health program brings together diverse people and organizations to improve health in the city of New Haven.

"We are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”—Gwendolyn Brooks

Big Food: Health, Culture and the Evolution of Eating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OP9qFD7tFU Big Food: Health, Culture and the Evolution of Eating

FFFFFF480378

Big Food: Health, Culture and the Evolution of Eating

February 11 through December 2, 2012

A wide-ranging exhibit on the food challenges of the 21st century, including changing eating habits and alarming levels of obesity, opens at the Yale Peabody Museum in 2012. Using an engaging multi-media and family-friendly approach, visitors will explore the neuroscience of appetite and how the body stores food and energy. They will also examine behavioral choices in nutrition and the influence of social, environmental and cultural settings. Visitors will investigate human origins as hunter-gatherers; explore societal pressures, such as the progressive growth of portion sizes; tackle media influences on food preferences; and consider the serious health consequences associated with obesity. Big Food will conclude with a challenge for visitors to reflect on their role in personal and community health, environmental justice and the food system’s sustainability.

BIG IDEAS, BIG FOOD.