2012-06-13
Be Healthy!: With Budget Cuts Looming, Grant Helps Center Help Youth Stay Fit
Participants of the Bronx Nutrition and Fitness Initiative program (B’ N’ Fit) at PS 8 were awarded a grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation that will help the program continue to support nutritional education and physical fitness in light of Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed budget cuts to afterschool programs.
Editorial: Why It’s Important to Vote on June 26
Bronx School’s Arts Program Flourishes Despite Roadblocks
Norwood Mom Opens Up After Her Son’s Violent Death
School Garden Raises Hopes at Clinton High School
Firefighters Save Three From Fordham Blaze
House Challengers Agree: Rangel Should Go
Be Healthy!: In The Bronx, Mayor Touts Big Sugary Drink Ban
Editor’s Note: Every Wednesday, Breaking Bronx features a health-related story, event or tidbit as part of an online expansion of our Be Healthy! column. In a press conference Tuesday, June 5, at Montefiore Medical CenterMayor Michael Bloomberg defended his proposal to ban the sale of large-sized sugary drinks. Along with several public health officials, Bloomberg took the opportunity to highlight the damaging effects of obesity on New Yorkers, especially in the Bronx. While 58 percent of New Yorkers are overweight or obese, the numbers are even higher in the Bronx, where 70 percent of adults are overweight or obese. That comes