California Nutrition Network for Healthy, Active Families
10th Anniversary Celebration

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Susan Foerster

Susan Foerster has provided leadership for large nutrition campaigns to prevent cancer and other diet-related diseases since 1988.  These include the California 5 a Day—for Better Health! Campaign, that led to the National 5 A Day Program, now the world’s largest chronic disease nutrition movement, and the California Nutrition Network for Healthy, Active Families.  She oversees the Children’s 5 a Day—Power Play! Campaign, the Latino 5 a Day Campaign, the African American 5 a Day Campaign, and a new Asian American 5 a Day initiative that is under development.

The California campaigns help 7 million low-income parents and children eat more fruits and vegetables, get daily physical activity, and increase the availability of healthy, fresh food and safe daily physical activity.  They work through USDA’s Food Stamp Program to eliminate health disparities.  Growing from 4 local projects in 1996 to 180 in 2005 has resulted in fruit and vegetable consumption rising in low-income Californians, a departure from national trends.

On the board of the American Cancer Society, the public member of the California Table Grape Commission, and co-chair of the California Dialog on Cancer, Foerster was selected as a “Healthy School Hero” by the White House Conference on Healthy School Environments, she serves on the Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity of the Institute of Medicine.

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For more information contact Carma Okerberg
Funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Stamp Program, an equal opportunity provider and employer, through the California Nutrition Network for Healthy, Active Families.