Food for Thought Cincinnati Inc

Food For Thought Cincinnati is a nonprofit whose mission is to improve heart health through community. Heart disease is the number one killer of American men and women, and Cincinnati is no exception. Dr. Florence Rothenberg started this nonprofit to reduce heart disease by improving awareness of risk factors that cause heart disease, and improving healthy food access. There are four main missions that need your support to accomplish this important goal: 

1. Blood pressure awareness campaign: Dr. Rothenberg is creating blood pressure stations across the community to help identify hypertension, a major risk factor for causing heart disease. Hypertension is called the "silent killer" because most people don't know they have it. You can see some of the photos of her doing this work with medical students from the Urban Health Project. This work is expensive - we need to purchase validated blood pressure cuffs to give away, materials for education, and time of people trained to measure blood pressure properly. Please help today! 

2. Reduce obstacles to healthy eating campaign: Dr. Rothenberg has been doing surveys throughout the community to understand why people aren't able to eat healthfully. With students from Xavier University, Dr. Rothenberg has created a recipe book that she hopes will get online for free by the holidays. These recipes are easy healthy meal ideas with food that can be purchased in the neighborhood. Your donation will help collect more information about obstacles we all face, and create tools to improve healthy food access for everyone. 

3. Education series on "How to Reduce Your Risk of Having Heart Disease": Dr. Rothenberg has over 30 years of experience and expertise in the prevention of heart disease and stroke. She has create an educational series that she delivers when and wherever she can so that you can know what you can do now to reduce your heart disease risk. Please support her efforts to disseminate this important information! 

4. Hydroponic and aquaponic healthy food production locally: Food For Thought Cincinnati has space in the Heart of Northside devoted to growing healthy food locally. This will take equipment and farmers to grow the food, package it, and get it where it needs to go - your plate! Your donation will increase food production right here at home, which will also reduce our carbon footprint. Please help increase healthy food access in our neighborhood.