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The bus stopped at a composting facility that handles green waste and food scraps from L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where \u003ca title=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201111150850/b\" href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201111150850/b\" target=\"_blank\">two workers from Arvin tragically died \u003c/a>when they were asked to go down into drainage pipe that was filled with hydrogen sulfide,” Frantz explains.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\" href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\" target=\"_blank\">Cal/OSHA \u003c/a>fined the company following the workers’ deaths, but community members say the accident may have been prevented if workers on site or nearby residents knew how to file a complaint about environmental hazards at the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the bus leaves the site, passengers strain to make out the Sierra Nevada mountains, masked by a thick curtain of smog. Next stop? Weedpatch, where nearly thirty trailer homes lack sewer hook-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco Perez lives here with his three children and four grandchildren. He sheepishly explains that when their septic tank fills up, and they can’t afford to clean it out, they go to the bathroom in a bucket and dump their waste in plastic bags in the trash. \u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me sad,” he says in Spanish. “In Mexico, when they’re going to build a neighborhood, the first thing they do is put in a sewer system. And Mexico is so poor compared to the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez says he doesn’t know who to call to find out when the local utility district plans to connect his house to the sewer or if there’s a program to help low-income residents pay to drain their septic tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government officials and nonprofit advocates on this bus tour teamed up to launch the new website. Ultimately, it will be bilingual and they hope it can help Kern County residents like Perez. The site lets people text anonymous complaints and pictures of pollution or hazards in their communities. A central ‘problem solver’ will funnel those complaints to the right agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back on the bus, Brian Johnson of the state \u003ca title=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/\" href=\"http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Toxic Substances Control\u003c/a> tells me residents shouldn’t be expected to know who to call when they smell chemicals wafting through the air or see an abandoned car rusting by the side of the road. The onus, he says, should be on the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we, government, get that complaint, it’s up to us to get that into the right silo, to make sure the right people are coming out to fix the problem in the community,” says Johnson over the roar of the bus engine. “They don’t need to know who to call. 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Pollan wants to see more money go to support farmers' markets, to make it easier to get healthy food into school lunch programs and to help farmers transition to organic agriculture. He calls these efforts \"crumbs\" in the big money picture in D.C. and sees these programs as real ways to help avoid some of the chronic illnesses endemic to the U.S., most of which are diet related.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"We should seriously consider a federal definition of food.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Karen Ross is in charge of determining a unified message that California's congressional delegation could offer up in the Farm Bill debate. She says the three top priorities that have emerged from talks with 80 stakeholders up and down the state and five \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/egov/Press_Releases/Press_Release.asp?PRnum=11-047\" href=\"http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/egov/Press_Releases/Press_Release.asp?PRnum=11-047\" target=\"_blank\">public listening sessions\u003c/a> are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Protecting the state's agricultural assets from invasive species\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Conservation practices\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Access to healthy food\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're hopeful that because we were able to bring together all the agencies within state government that have an interest that we can communicate in a way that will help our delegation vote collectively on some of the issues we care about,\" said Ross. 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(The California Endowment is a supporter of KQED). Respondents across political parties, ethnic backgrounds and household incomes all agreed a poor diet and sedentary lifestyle are the major health risks to children. Illegal drug use was a distant second at 22 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of respondents (60 percent) said that the neighborhood where a child is raised makes a difference in their health. A strong majority (68 percent) said a comprehensive program to prevent childhood obesity -- including building parks and promoting neighborhood safety -- would be worth it, even if it cost billions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Californians understand that health happens in schools, in neighborhoods, and with prevention,\" said \u003ca title=\"http://www.calendow.org/Article.aspx?id=796\" href=\"http://www.calendow.org/Article.aspx?id=796\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Robert Ross\u003c/a>, CEO of The California Endowment, said in a statement. \"Regardless of age, ethnicity, income or political ideology, they recognize that investments in prevention save money over the long run.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Support for \"soda tax\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than three out of five Californians (62 percent) would support a special fee on soda and other soft drinks, presuming the money was spent to fight childhood obesity. Richmond City Council Member \u003ca title=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=1799\" href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=1799\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Ritterman\u003c/a> is working to put a so-called \u003ca title=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2011/12/07/could-richmond-be-first-california-city-to-tax-soda/\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2011/12/07/could-richmond-be-first-california-city-to-tax-soda/\" target=\"_blank\">\"soda tax\" before Richmond voters\u003c/a> in November. \"This is encouraging for us,\" he said in an interview, \"I think it will get people who are working on it feeling like they are going to win.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_4745\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/04/Screen-Shot-2012-04-04-at-3.08.18-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-4745 \" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-04-04 at 3.08.18 PM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/04/Screen-Shot-2012-04-04-at-3.08.18-PM-300x252.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voter opinions about the state imposing a special fee on soda and soft drinks, using money to fight childhood obesity. 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These are the emerging issues of the next decade that we're going to have to be working on in a big way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Learn More: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Listen to Contra Costa County Public Health Director Dr. Wendel Brunner's\u003ca title=\"http://cchealth.org/topics/podcast/\" href=\"http://cchealth.org/topics/podcast/\" target=\"_blank\"> podcast\u003c/a> in response to today's poll. He discusses the health effects of childhood obesity and his opinion of a soda tax.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_4662\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/04/Classroom_JeremyWilburn_Flickr_04022012.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-4662\" title=\"Researchers say each person sheds 37 million bacteria per hour each hour spent occupying a room. (Jeremy Wilburn: Flickr)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/04/Classroom_JeremyWilburn_Flickr_04022012-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Researchers say each person sheds 37 million bacteria per hour each hour spent occupying a room. (Jeremy Wilburn: Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers say each person sheds 37 million bacteria per hour each hour spent occupying a room. (Jeremy Wilburn: Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our colleagues at \u003ca title=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/humans-major-source-indoor-bacteria-uc-researchers-find-15577\" href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/humans-major-source-indoor-bacteria-uc-researchers-find-15577\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch\u003c/a> have a yuck-inducing story today about indoor air quality. It turns out, Susanne Rust says, \"You are a big bag of germs. And just by walking into a room, you add 37 million bacteria to the air for every hour you remain there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a study published recently in \u003ca title=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0668.2012.00769.x/abstract\" href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0668.2012.00769.x/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Indoor Air\u003c/a>, researchers at UC Berkeley and Yale University examined the effect of people on indoor air quality. This is the first time the \"bacterial sloughing\" of people in a room has been quantified, using DNA-based methods, according to UC Berkeley's \u003ca title=\"http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/Nazaroff?destination=people%2Ffaculty%2FNazaroff\" href=\"http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/Nazaroff?destination=people%2Ffaculty%2FNazaroff\" target=\"_blank\">William Nazaroff\u003c/a>, co-author of the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the California Watch report:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We live in this microbial soup, and a big ingredient is our own microorganisms,” said Jordan Peccia, associate professor of environmental engineering at Yale and principal investigator of the study. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mostly, people are re-suspending what’s been deposited before,” he said. “The floor dust turns out to be the major source of the bacteria that we breathe.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>California Watch explains that researchers first analyzed a university classroom that was empty for four days. Over the next four days, the room was occasionally occupied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The researchers found that the presence of a person correlated with significant spikes in fungi and bacteria circulating in the air. In particular, it was the large-fungal particles and medium-sized bacteria that were most prevalent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found that nearly one-fifth of all bacteria and fungi measured in the room came from human sources, as opposed to plants or other sources. And the most predominant bacteria was a common human skin critter called Propionibacteria.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And since KQED's newsroom has wall to wall carpet--which I am standing on right now--I was not happy to learn the researchers reported that carpeted rooms were the \"most infested.\" YUCK again. Still, is this really any surprise?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what's it all mean? We already know that bugs are spread human-to-human. Curiously, the co-authors disagreed about the health impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Nazaroff reassuringly tells us that \"we don't yet know whether there is any health significance associated with routine bacteria and fungi exposure indoors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peccia was less sanguine. \"All those infectious diseases we get, we get indoors,\" he told California Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What to do? A quick check of the \u003ca title=\"http://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/\" href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/\" target=\"_blank\">Centers for Disease Control\u003c/a> website reminds us to wash hands frequently. It's \"one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others,\" the CDC says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In some parts of California air quality is already a big issue.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_3800\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/tractor300x300.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-3800 \" title=\"tractor300x300\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/tractor300x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/tractor300x300.gif 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/tractor300x300-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/tractor300x300-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/tractor300x300-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/tractor300x300-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/tractor300x300-75x75.gif 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farming in the Central Valley contributes to the poor air quality there. (Photo: Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As if there wasn’t already enough to worry about, now doctors are predicting that climate change will harm people's respiratory health. The American Thoracic Society is so concerned it filed a \u003ca title=\"http://pats.atsjournals.org/content/9/1/3.abstract\" href=\"http://pats.atsjournals.org/content/9/1/3.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a> with two goals. The Society not only wants to raise awareness with doctors so they can take preventive measures with their patients but also is enticing researchers to take on the question for further study. They found that climate change has a direct impact on air quality. A hotter climate, wildfires, more pollen in the air and rates of airborne diseases are worsening respiratory health worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change will likely affect different places in different ways, but in California it could mean \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2011/12/14/take-your-pick-wetter-drier-and-hotter-for-california/\" target=\"_blank\">hotter summers and more wildfires\u003c/a>. The itchy eyes and sneeze-inducing allergies that plague many people during pollen season could also hang around longer if weather patterns continue to change. All of that is bad for asthmatics, children and the elderly, but also for poor people – as it turns out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was really an eye opener for us,\" said \u003ca title=\"http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/kepinkerton/\" href=\"http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/kepinkerton/\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Pinkerton\u003c/a>, a professor of pediatrics at UC Davis and the lead author on the report. \"We were really not aware of the implications of change in temperature on respiratory health. But it really is a global issue. It’s not just a concern for here in our country,\" he added. In some parts of Africa and Turkey desertification and increased particulates in the air have already forced people to relocate, often into cramped conditions, which further heightens their risk for respiratory diseases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, wildfires are a blazing example of how increasing dryness and changing weather patterns harm people's lungs. Pinkerton pointed to the summer of 2008. \"We had over 1000 wildfires burning at the same time. And that really had a significant impact on air quality and particle concentration within the atmosphere,\" he explained to me. Another big change -- doctors are seeing infections from molds--molds not seen before in California. \"I think a good example of this has been a fungal type of infection that was only found in Central America, that is now found as far north as British Columbia, in Canada,\" said Pinkerton. So far the people most at risk are those with preexisting lung conditions, the very old and the very young. But in California's Central Valley some of these affects have gotten so bad that doctors are seeing them in all age groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"We were really not aware of the implications of change in temperature on respiratory health. But it really is a global issue.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’m seeing an increase in the last 19-20 years in the number of patients I’m seeing who are experiencing chronic lung disease,” Kevin Hamilton, deputy chief of programs at \u003ca href=\"http://www.clinicasierravista.org/programs/\" target=\"_blank\">Clinica Sierra Vista\u003c/a> in Fresno told me. \"If we see continued changes in the climate you will see resulting problems in people’s health,” he continued. Hamilton is a respiratory therapist who treats mostly low-income patients, often Latino farmworkers making their living in the Central Valley. He says in his experience if air pollution is high, people pass a threshold where they keep getting sick. He says the San Joaquin Valley often has more than 150 days a year that break the health statutes for particulate matter--fine particles in the air that can affect people's lungs. Consistent poor air quality exacerbates--and can cause--illnesses like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In Hamilton's 34 years of treating lung diseases he says he thinks it’s getting worse. Something else different -- he’s seeing problems in all age groups among his low-income patients, something he doesn’t see with wealthier patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Capitman, the Executive Director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.csufresno.edu/ccchhs/institutes_programs/CVHPI/index.shtml\">Central Valley Health Policy Institute\u003c/a> and a professor of public health at CSU Fresno, says not all lung problems are created equally in the Central Valley. In fact, he’s also \u003ca href=\"http://www.csufresno.edu/ccchhs/institutes_programs/CVHPI/publications/MVAreport.pdf\">done research\u003c/a> that links the poorest air quality and the poorest health to communities that are low-income and often segregated. “In some of our more affluent communities we have health status outcomes that are similar to anywhere else in the country,” Capitman explained. “But in other communities, particularly low-income communities, places that are racially segregated basically, there is evidence that life expectancy is much lower.” Life expectancy is not linked solely to air quality, but exposure to high levels of particulate matter, ozone and pesticides are a contributing factor to the overall poor health that these communities experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That disparity is true around the world. Pinkerton's report makes clear that many respiratory illnesses linked to a changing climate have a socio-economic component. The people in Africa being forced to relocate are often the poorest, just as the farmworkers in the Central Valley bear the brunt of poor air conditions and increased ozone.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_3728\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/Tooleville_SashaKhokha.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-3728 \" title=\"The drinking water in the town of Tulare County's Tooleville is contaminated with nitrates. (Photo: Sasha Khokha)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/Tooleville_SashaKhokha-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The drinking water in the town of Tulare County's Tooleville is contaminated with nitrates. (Photo: Sasha Khokha)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The drinking water in the Tulare County community of Tooleville is contaminated with nitrates. (Photo: Sasha Khokha)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Sasha Khokha detailed on \u003ca title=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201203130850/a\" href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201203130850/a\" target=\"_blank\">The California Report\u003c/a> this morning, a \u003ca title=\"http://groundwaternitrate.ucdavis.edu/\" href=\"http://groundwaternitrate.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">major U.C. Davis report\u003c/a> released today found that more than 250,000 people living in some of California's prime farming areas are at risk of drinking water contaminated with nitrates. The contamination is largely from fertilizer used widely across California farmland and from animal manure from large dairies and other confined animal facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nitrates are linked to health problems including thyroid illnesses, some cancers and a type of \"blue baby syndrome,\" a blood disorder caused by a high concentration of nitrates which can be fatal to babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new report--\u003cem>Addressing Nitrate in California's Drinking Water--\u003c/em>looks at the Tulare Lake Basin, including Fresno and Bakersfield, as well as the Salinas Valley, including Salinas and areas near Monterey. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khokha has been reporting on the issue of nitrates in drinking water for five years. In 2010, Khokha and The California Report collaborated with \u003ca title=\"http://californiawatch.org/\" href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Watch\u003c/a> on a multi-platform series \"\u003ca title=\"http://californiawatch.org/coping-with-nitrate-contamination/\" href=\"http://californiawatch.org/coping-with-nitrate-contamination/\" target=\"_blank\">Living with Nitrates\u003c/a>.\" The series later was honored with awards by the \u003ca title=\"http://www.spjnorcal.org/blog/2010/10/16/2010-excellence-in-journalism-award-winners-announced/\" href=\"http://www.spjnorcal.org/blog/2010/10/16/2010-excellence-in-journalism-award-winners-announced/\" target=\"_blank\">Society of Professional Journalists\u003c/a> and the\u003ca title=\"http://knightrisser.stanford.edu/winner2011.html\" href=\"http://knightrisser.stanford.edu/winner2011.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that 2010 series, Khokha interviewed a \u003ca title=\"http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/\" href=\"http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">State Water Resources Control Board\u003c/a> official who said nitrates took a backseat to more pressing water concerns, such as perchlorate and dry cleaning solvents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the scale of things we deal with, while nitrates is certainly a concern and we’re managing for it, I don’t rank it high up there as something that makes me stay awake at night,” Darrin Polhemus, then-deputy director of the Board's division of water quality, said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in reporting today's story, Khokha talked to \u003ca title=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/mywaterquality/monitoring_council/\" href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/mywaterquality/monitoring_council/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Bishop\u003c/a>, Chief Deputy Director of the State Water Board, which commissioned today's study. When she asked him about what Mr. Polhemus told her back in 2010, Bishop said, “I’m sure that his comment is something he regrets, now, and then.” Bishop said. Then he added, “I don’t think you’d find anyone that would say, 'well, we just don’t need to worry about these small disadvantaged communities. There’s just not enough people; we won’t worry about them.' I think everyone is concerned about them. It [nitrates in drinking water] had never been looked at in this comprehensive of a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, people who live in these small communities Bishop cites may pay more for tap water than people who live in major urban areas. But if that tap water is contaminated with nitrates, then they also have at the expense of buying bottled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This report is going to be a challenge to many,\" said co-author \u003ca title=\"http://lawr.ucdavis.edu/directory_facultypages.php?id=41\" href=\"http://lawr.ucdavis.edu/directory_facultypages.php?id=41\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Harter\u003c/a>, of the U.C. Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources. \"What I hope is that this report provides a way for us to all sit together and find ways to move forward. There are many promising options outlined in the report in terms of practices and technologies. I hope we can find sources of funding to do this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sources of funding are bound to be a big challenge as the report estimates that fixing drinking water systems just in the two basins examined could run up to $35 million a year for \u003cem>decades.\u003c/em> Among other ideas, the report suggests a sales tax on fertilizer, something farmers currently do not pay. This idea is likely to be met with resistance from California's powerful agriculture lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's a problem that must be addressed, the authors urge. \"California is not alone in this problem,\" Harter says. \"To the degree that we will need to feed ten billion people in the year 2050 that will demand food and fiber at about twice the rate that is being produced today. We all need to tackle this challenge and figure out how to do this sustainably. We can also lead and teach the world on how to do this. This is really a global responsibility that we carry here in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Learn more:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's \u003cem>Forum \u003c/em>March 14, 2012\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca title=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201203140900\" href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201203140900\" target=\"_blank\">Central Valley Drinking Water Contamination\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>California Watch on today's U.C. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On the scale of things we deal with, while nitrates is certainly a concern and we’re managing for it, I don’t rank it high up there as something that makes me stay awake at night,” Darrin Polhemus, then-deputy director of the Board's division of water quality, said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in reporting today's story, Khokha talked to \u003ca title=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/mywaterquality/monitoring_council/\" href=\"http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/mywaterquality/monitoring_council/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Bishop\u003c/a>, Chief Deputy Director of the State Water Board, which commissioned today's study. When she asked him about what Mr. Polhemus told her back in 2010, Bishop said, “I’m sure that his comment is something he regrets, now, and then.” Bishop said. Then he added, “I don’t think you’d find anyone that would say, 'well, we just don’t need to worry about these small disadvantaged communities. There’s just not enough people; we won’t worry about them.' I think everyone is concerned about them. It [nitrates in drinking water] had never been looked at in this comprehensive of a way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, people who live in these small communities Bishop cites may pay more for tap water than people who live in major urban areas. But if that tap water is contaminated with nitrates, then they also have at the expense of buying bottled water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This report is going to be a challenge to many,\" said co-author \u003ca title=\"http://lawr.ucdavis.edu/directory_facultypages.php?id=41\" href=\"http://lawr.ucdavis.edu/directory_facultypages.php?id=41\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Harter\u003c/a>, of the U.C. Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources. \"What I hope is that this report provides a way for us to all sit together and find ways to move forward. There are many promising options outlined in the report in terms of practices and technologies. I hope we can find sources of funding to do this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sources of funding are bound to be a big challenge as the report estimates that fixing drinking water systems just in the two basins examined could run up to $35 million a year for \u003cem>decades.\u003c/em> Among other ideas, the report suggests a sales tax on fertilizer, something farmers currently do not pay. This idea is likely to be met with resistance from California's powerful agriculture lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's a problem that must be addressed, the authors urge. \"California is not alone in this problem,\" Harter says. \"To the degree that we will need to feed ten billion people in the year 2050 that will demand food and fiber at about twice the rate that is being produced today. We all need to tackle this challenge and figure out how to do this sustainably. We can also lead and teach the world on how to do this. This is really a global responsibility that we carry here in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Learn more:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's \u003cem>Forum \u003c/em>March 14, 2012\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca title=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201203140900\" href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201203140900\" target=\"_blank\">Central Valley Drinking Water Contamination\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>California Watch on today's U.C. Davis report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca title=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/farming-communities-facing-crisis-over-nitrate-pollution-study-says-15258\" href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/farming-communities-facing-crisis-over-nitrate-pollution-study-says-15258\" target=\"_blank\">Farming Communities Facing Crisis over Nitrate Pollution, Study Says\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Sasha Khokha's 2010 series \"Nitrates in Our Drinking Water:\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca title=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005140850/a\" href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005140850/a\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1: The Present Threat\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca title=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005170850/a\" href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005170850/a\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2: Charting A Cleaner Future\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca title=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005180850/a\" href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201005180850/a\" target=\"_blank\">Part 3: Cleaning up the Past\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_3539\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/FoodDesert_BurgerKing_JohnHenryMostyn_Flickr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-3539\" title=\"(John Henry Mostyn: Flickr)\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2012/03/FoodDesert_BurgerKing_JohnHenryMostyn_Flickr-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"(John Henry Mostyn: Flickr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(John Henry Mostyn: Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proponents of public health have long worried about \"food deserts\"-- but it took First Lady Michelle Obama to put the expression on the map when she launched her \"\u003ca title=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/\" href=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Let's Move\u003c/a>\" campaign. A food desert brings to mind an impoverished neighborhood where the main streets are lined with fast-food outlets or convenience stores with nary a full-scale supermarket to be found. \"Lack of access contributes to poor diet and can lead to higher levels of obesity and other diet-related diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease. But, this is a solvable problem,\" it says on the\u003ca title=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/healthy-communities\" href=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/healthy-communities\" target=\"_blank\"> Let's Move\u003c/a> website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to solve the problem the Administration has pledged to end food deserts within seven years by helping communities invest in healthier food outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"I never bought into the 'supermarkets make you thinner' story.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It sounds laudable, but new research finds that food deserts may not be so barren after all. \u003ca title=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/bio.asp?i=270\" href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/bio.asp?i=270\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Lee\u003c/a> at the Public Policy Institute of California, set out to look at food deserts, expecting to find that they were the widespread problem they've been reported to be. Instead she found something very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By looking at national records of businesses across the country, she could compare more disadvantaged neighborhoods to their wealthier counterparts. Yes, poorer neighborhoods had more fast-food outlets, but she also found they had more grocery stores. \"So the picture I came away with ... is they don't have worse access to healthier food stores, it's more a picture of food diversity,\" she said in an interview. \"That was a surprise to me. I did not expect to find that.\" She says she crunched the data in different ways. \"It came out consistently.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her \u003ca title=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612000810\" href=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612000810\" target=\"_blank\">study,\u003c/a> \"The Role of Local Food Availability in Explaining Obesity Risk among Young School-Aged Children,\" Lee then turned to obesity rates among children. \"That was the second question,\" she said. \"Does what families have access to, does it even matter for explaining who becomes obese over time and who doesn't? ... It has no relation to obesity outcomes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a researcher, Lee believes it's time to reflect on policies that focus on grocery stores. \"We all like a silver bullet,\" she told me, \"but this is not it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second\u003ca title=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/School-and-residential-neighborhood-food\" href=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/School-and-residential-neighborhood-food\" target=\"_blank\"> study\u003c/a> from the Rand Corporation reinforces Lee's findings. The study could not find a \"robust relationship between food environment and consumption.\" Co-author Roland Sturm cautioned there were limitations of the study, but nonetheless added, \"I never bought into the 'supermarkets make you thinner' story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is what happens when an individual enters a supermarket. \"I challenge you to go to a grocery store and walk around and for every healthy food you can find, you can find an unhealthy counterpart,\" Lee says. \"For everything you can think of. There's whole milk and fat free milk. You can buy fresh broccoli or broccoli with cheese sauce in the frozen food aisle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a sociologist, Lee did not want her research to be taken as fodder to \"blame the individual.\" People's social situation drives health. \"These things we know,\" she says, \"Education, economic mobility, they are so predictive of your health. ... At the end of the day what drives obesity is choices we make, shaped by our environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That environment still has to do with what's actually in a grocery store, insist some advocates. \u003ca title=\"http://www.phlpnet.org/php/staff/laurison\" href=\"http://www.phlpnet.org/php/staff/laurison\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Burton Laurison\u003c/a> is with Public Health Law and Policy. While she says she agrees that access to grocery stores with fresh foods may not help to alleviate childhood obesity, she says the issue of food outlet availability is much more nuanced than 'is there a supermarket in the neighborhood?' \"We're trying to understand a complicated food retail environment where there are good options available and unhealthy options available, but pricing and quality and marketing are huge factors in how we make decisions,\" she said. \"You have to have access. It is not a single solution and I would agree with that finding in each of these studies, but you do have to have access, ... access to healthy foods matters quite a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurison points to a specific example in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point, a largely poor and minority neighborhood in San Francisco, with few grocery stores. In 1998, when the current owner purchased the store, alcohol sales accounted for 55 percent of revenue and and produce was less than two percent. In other words, more of a liquor store than a grocery store. Over the next 12 years, a community group worked with the store to improve the variety and quality of its produce. The store more than doubled its gross revenue. By 2010 produce sales were 17 percent of revenue and alcohol sales were down to 14 percent of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be hard for anyone to disagree that the improvement of this store's produce offerings is not worthwhile. But a healthier diet does not necessarily affect obesity. \"How can we improve diet to become healthier AND lose weight?\" Sturm muses. \"It's not necessarily the same thing. You can have a really good diet in many ways, but still be heavy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key component of the Let's Move! campaign was the establishment of the \u003ca title=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/childhood-obesity-task-force-unveils-action-plan-solving-problem-childhood-obesity-\" href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/childhood-obesity-task-force-unveils-action-plan-solving-problem-childhood-obesity-\" target=\"_blank\">White House Childhood Obesity Task Force\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her \u003ca title=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612000810\" href=\"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953612000810\" target=\"_blank\">study,\u003c/a> \"The Role of Local Food Availability in Explaining Obesity Risk among Young School-Aged Children,\" Lee then turned to obesity rates among children. \"That was the second question,\" she said. \"Does what families have access to, does it even matter for explaining who becomes obese over time and who doesn't? ... It has no relation to obesity outcomes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a researcher, Lee believes it's time to reflect on policies that focus on grocery stores. \"We all like a silver bullet,\" she told me, \"but this is not it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second\u003ca title=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/School-and-residential-neighborhood-food\" href=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/School-and-residential-neighborhood-food\" target=\"_blank\"> study\u003c/a> from the Rand Corporation reinforces Lee's findings. The study could not find a \"robust relationship between food environment and consumption.\" Co-author Roland Sturm cautioned there were limitations of the study, but nonetheless added, \"I never bought into the 'supermarkets make you thinner' story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is what happens when an individual enters a supermarket. \"I challenge you to go to a grocery store and walk around and for every healthy food you can find, you can find an unhealthy counterpart,\" Lee says. \"For everything you can think of. There's whole milk and fat free milk. You can buy fresh broccoli or broccoli with cheese sauce in the frozen food aisle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a sociologist, Lee did not want her research to be taken as fodder to \"blame the individual.\" People's social situation drives health. \"These things we know,\" she says, \"Education, economic mobility, they are so predictive of your health. ... 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It is not a single solution and I would agree with that finding in each of these studies, but you do have to have access, ... access to healthy foods matters quite a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laurison points to a specific example in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point, a largely poor and minority neighborhood in San Francisco, with few grocery stores. In 1998, when the current owner purchased the store, alcohol sales accounted for 55 percent of revenue and and produce was less than two percent. In other words, more of a liquor store than a grocery store. Over the next 12 years, a community group worked with the store to improve the variety and quality of its produce. The store more than doubled its gross revenue. By 2010 produce sales were 17 percent of revenue and alcohol sales were down to 14 percent of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be hard for anyone to disagree that the improvement of this store's produce offerings is not worthwhile. 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The Task Force explicitly promotes supermarkets and based its recommendation on \u003ca title=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Associations-between-access-to-food-stores-and\" href=\"https://riskfactor.cancer.gov/mfe/search-publications/Associations-between-access-to-food-stores-and\" target=\"_blank\">a single study\u003c/a> that found an association between supermarkets in a ZIP code and lower body weight among adolescents. 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Tangerine Brigham, director of the program, spoke first and described the program's goals: to provide improved access to care through a network of community clinics and hospitals. Of primary importance is for people to have a relationship with a doctor or clinic so they don't resort to the emergency room for what are essentially primary care problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Healthy San Francisco has enrolled 80 percent of San Francisco's uninsured--about 55,000 adults.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since its inception in 2007, Healthy San Francisco has enrolled 80 percent of San Francisco's uninsured--about 55,000 adults. And people are using the primary care benefits. \"Over 70 percent of the people in Healthy SF are getting a primary care visit at least once a year,\" Brigham said. \"Because they're using primary care, we saw a reduction in emergency room utilization at \u003ca title=\"http://sfghed.ucsf.edu/\" href=\"http://sfghed.ucsf.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/a>. We compared that to other public hospitals in California and what that analysis showed was that San Francisco emergency utilization was declining while others' was rising.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healthy San Francisco is not health insurance. Participants pay a quarterly fee--on a sliding scale--for care at the clinics and hospitals that participate in the program, which are in San Francisco only\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> But people don't seem to be bothered by the geographic constraints. A \u003ca title=\"http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/kaiserpolls082609nr.cfm\" href=\"http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/kaiserpolls082609nr.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">2009 survey\u003c/a> by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 94 percent of participants were at least \"somewhat satisfied\" with the program and 92 percent would recommend to a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/Public/Leadership-Programs/MiniProfile.aspx?pid=33&asuid=8814\" href=\"http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/Public/Leadership-Programs/MiniProfile.aspx?pid=33&asuid=8814\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Hill\u003c/a> is the clinic manager at \u003ca title=\"http://glide.org/health\" href=\"http://glide.org/health\" target=\"_blank\">Glide Health Services\u003c/a>. As a provider, she is also highly satisfied with Healthy San Francisco. \"From a clinic manager's perspective,\" she says, \"I don't have to worry about where I need to send someone for specialty care. I know they have a place to go. ... We are going to be able to get those specialty tests they need. We have access for blood tests and for medications.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of San Francisco's health care overhaul, businesses with more than 20 employees are \u003ca title=\"http://www.healthysanfrancisco.org/employers/HCSO_Compliance.aspx\" href=\"http://www.healthysanfrancisco.org/employers/HCSO_Compliance.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">required to provide health insurance\u003c/a> to their employees. Before implementation of the plan, employers--especially restaurant owners--had worried that this requirement would cost jobs, since businesses in surrounding cities and counties might not bear the same health insurance costs. \u003ca title=\"http://sph.berkeley.edu/faculty/dow.php\" href=\"http://sph.berkeley.edu/faculty/dow.php\" target=\"_blank\">William Dow\u003c/a>, Professor of Health Economics at UC Berkeley, has looked at this issue extensively. \"Were there fewer jobs in the City after this happened?\" he asked, in reference to the implementation of Healthy San Francisco. \"The answer is no.\" You can read his full analysis \u003ca title=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w16179.pdf\" href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w16179.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discussion was peppered with comments and questions from the audience. Many spoke in favor of Healthy SF, including Jack Snook. \"I think Healthy San Francisco is the best thing that ever happened to me other than being a teacher for 20 years,\" he said. \"I'm able to easily attain care through Healthy SF. ... It's been a big blessing in my life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead to the rollout of federal health care reform in 2014, panelists agreed that San Francisco's near-universal health coverage makes the upcoming change easier. \"We will be in a very unique position as a provider community in 2014,\" said Tangerine Brigham, \"because we will be far better prepared with our residents in Healthy San Francisco to transition either from Medicaid or into another program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel unfortunately ended before any discussion of cost of the program could be addressed. \u003ca title=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>--sponsor of last night's event--featured an \u003ca title=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/healthy-sf\" href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/healthy-sf\" target=\"_blank\">in-depth special report\u003c/a> last November. The entire edition is worth a read, but \u003ca title=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2011-11/san-franciscos-universal-health-plan-reaches-tens-of-thousands-rests-on-unstable-funding\" href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2011-11/san-franciscos-universal-health-plan-reaches-tens-of-thousands-rests-on-unstable-funding\" target=\"_blank\">one ominous parting note\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The employer contribution raised relatively modest revenues. Of Healthy San Francisco’s total $177 million budget in the last fiscal year, businesses covered just $12.9 million, or about 7 percent. When city officials created the program they envisioned businesses covering $30 million to $40 million, or at least 15 percent of the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s General Fund picked up nearly eight times that amount — $99.7 million. The contributions of individuals opting to buy Healthy San Francisco for themselves contribute just $5.9 million or a bit more than 3 percent of total costs.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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