resources for healthy eating
Harlem Word: Maudene Nelson tells us that it doesn’t matter if you eat red meat or white meat, it just matters how much of it you have!
Maudene Nelson, RD, CDE tells us why it can be good for our health to eat less meat than we usually do. Maudene has been a nutrition educator at the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition for the past thirty years. She is also a diabetes educator at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center.
Uptown Juice Bar
A restaurant and juice bar, offering a variety of juice mixtures and meat-less or dairy-less foods like mock turkey salad, soy cheese pizza, and veggie burgers.
Cafe Veg
Vegan restaurant in Harlem that offers sandwiches, wraps, entrees, salads, and desserts.
Strictly Roots Restaurant
* Vegan restaurant and juice barwho in their own words, serve nothing that "walks, crawls, swims, or flies"
* Menu changes daily and includes items, such as fried plantains, macaroni and soy cheese, veggie burgers, soups, salads, and tofu
Growing your own community garden
The surest way to have fresh produce at your fingertips is to grow it yourself!