LCHAY's mission is to prevent childhood obesity and related diseases, in Lane County
"If you want to go fast walk alone,
if you want to go far walk together."
--Ethiopian Proverb
LCHAY Film & Forums
Stay tuned for information about our next Film & Forum event, coming this fall!
1. Deepen people’s understanding of the role and influence policy and environment play in determining individual behavior regarding making healthy choices.
2. Stimulate public conversation about contributing factors to health and wellness; including food and nutrition options, income level, race and ethnicity, changes in the built environment, media influence and messaging and public policy.
3. Garner information about Lane County residents’ priorities related to health in general; and child wellness, obesity and related chronic diseases and conditions specifically.
4. Provide an opportunity for diverse sectors of our community to connect, talk with, and learn from one another.
5. Increase capacity for citizen advocacy and support of programs and initiatives that improve health.
This series made possible in part by support from Community Health Priorites, a project of The Northwest health Foundation.
Bad Sugar
More than 55 people joined us on June 2, 2010 for our Film & Forum event at the Eugene Public Library. We watched the film "Bad Sugar"; an episode of the acclaimed "Unnatural Causes; Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" documentary series.
Bad Sugar explores how environments and the policies that shape them and contribute to alarmingly high rates of diabetes; particularly among The Pima Indians in Arizona.
The film was followed by facilitated discussion in small groups. Topics raised ranged from the effects of diabetes on the body, to water and land rights; from social justice issues, Native American and other cultural food traditions, to school food; and more!
To learn more about the Unnatural Causes series, click here
Consuming Kids; The Commericialization of Childhood
Our December '09 film event, "Consuming Kids; the Commercialization of Childhood" was a great success.
Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car.
Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world.
Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids.
Download our Media Advocacy Resources Sheet here
Watch preview for Consuming Kids here
These events are part of LCHAY's What the Health?! Initiative, a series of films and forums exploring how media, place and policy affect our health and wellbeing.