Many fountain drinks served by fast-food restaurant chains contain more than a day’s worth of added sugar. Sugary drinks and foods are harmful to the American diet because they can lead to a myriad of chronic diseases and conditions like type 2 diabetes, obesity, and hypertension...
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IPHN was part of the inaugural planning team for the Faith + Food Coalition Food Systems Dialogues alongside the Center for Earth Ethics. The five dialogues that the team organized will contribute to the United Nations Food Systems Summit...
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Isaac* looked up at me curiously with big brown eyes, his tight curls a similar shade of chocolate brown, prominent against his slightly lighter skin. He was a new patient in our clinic and had come for his 3-year-old well child visit...
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I am a philosopher who studies “population health,” and for as long as I have worked in that area, I have found the most interesting and admirable feature of population health science research is that humility serves the glue that holds it all together...
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JustFaith Ministries’ new 8-week program, Sacred Land: Food and Farming is the first in their new eco-justice series. In the Fall of 2020, I had the opportunity to participate in a pilot of this program, that “explores our relationship to the land and our responsibility for it”...
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On December 2, 2023, the Interfaith Public Health Network (IPHN) facilitated its first post-pandemic NYC Public Health Roundtable event. Community members and faith leaders gathered at the Bronx Opera House Hotel to discuss the intersection between community advocacy and public health solutions...
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I have served as an organizer with faith communities for the past ten years. While I have worked on issues ranging from environmental and food justice to housing and rights for undocumented persons, I have found that the area of health care is often overlooked in our spiritual call to a just and equitable world...
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It was in the middle of night during Ramadan 2018 in the last 10 days, a very quiet and peaceful night, when the idea of Science Jummah started. I was working as an oncology hospitalist and was taking care of patients with cancer admitted to the hospital...
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