Welcome to Healthy Living
DASH-NY is Designing a Strong and Healthy New York and encouraging all New Yorkers to make healthy choices by engaging multiple sectors in creating policy, systems and environmental changes that will end the epidemic of obesity.
DASH-NY offers policy analysis, training, technical assistance, and support for sustainable changes that increase access to healthy food and safe places to play and exercise for all New Yorkers.
- One in four New Yorkers is obese.
One in three New York children is obese or overweight.
Obesity and overweight are linked to more than 20 major chronic diseases, like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
New York State will spend approximately $9.9 billion on adult obesity-related health problems in 2011, and $136.3 billion from 2011 to 2020.
- People in communities with a mix of shops and businesses within easy walking distance have a 35 percent lower risk of obesity.
People who live or work within walking distance of a supermarket are 14% less likely to be obese.
Banning fast food commercials could cut the number of overweight children by 18% and drop the number of overweight adolescents by 14%.
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Watch Stephen Ritz, a South Bronx teacher/administrator talk about how vertical gardening has transformed his classroom and his student’s lives. |
