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Helping others live a happier healthier life through the promotion of healthy eating and active lifestyles.

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  Apr 5 2011: Hello! My sophomore year at Vanderbilt University, I founded an organization called Healthy Head Start that promotes healthy and active lifestyles in elementary-high school classes in the Nashville Community (www.healthyheadstart.com). Each year, we hold "Healthy Thanksgivings Feasts," lead gym classes, teach healthy lessons, and promote other events to show that eating healthy can taste good and living actively is fun and easy! Currently I am studying at Columbia University to receive a masters in molecular nutrition. This fall I am returning to Nashville to work for Vanderbilt's Center for Health Services to get back into the Nashville community not only promoting nutrition and healthy lifestyles but also partnering with Nashville's Brand NEW "Nashville Mobile Market" (http://www.nashvillemobilemarket.org/) helping to distribute fresh fruits and vegetables in low SES communities that are typically considered 'food deserts.'
  
  I think what everyone is doing is amazing and I'm just happy to be apart of this food revolution that is sweeping the nation. Good luck to everyone in their endeavors! I hope one day we can all join forces and solve this nation's growing obesity epidemic and prevent these growing health care costs from consuming our disposable income for us and future generations.