Fighting Obesity with No Money -- Growing Up Poor in the Bay Area

Altagracia Hernandez is raising two children with her husband on less than $2,000 a month. Access to affordable, healthy food is a challenge in East Palo Alto, Calif. and both kids are struggling with obesity.

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Fighting Obesity with No Money

This video was first published by NAM.

Ann Bassette is a content producer at New America Media.

This video was produced for Growing Up Poor in the Bay Area, a community forum held by New America Media, the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health and Kidsdata.org.

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This article is part of the categories: Economy  / Education  / Environment  / Family/Inter-generational News  / Food  / Health 
This article is part of the tags: East Palo Alto  / growing up poor in the bay area  / obesity 

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