About Walnuts

Partners

California Walnuts is proud to work with the following organizations:

American Institute for Cancer Research

The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is the cancer charity that funds research on the relationship of nutrition, physical activity and weight management to cancer risk, interprets the scientific literature and educates the public about the results.

AICR was the first cancer charity to create awareness of the relationship between diet and cancer risk; to focus funding on the role of diet, physical activity and weight in cancer prevention and survival; and to synthesize the global research into an empowering, practical message: About one-third of the most common cancers could be prevented via healthy diet, regular physical activity and weight management. AICR has published two landmark reports that interpret the accumulated research in the field, and is committed to a process of continuous review. AICR also provides a wide range of educational programs to help millions of Americans learn to make dietary changes for lower cancer risk. Its award-winning New American Plate program is presented in brochures, seminars and on its website, www.aicr.org. AICR is a member of the World Cancer Research Fund International.


Health Corps

Vision: Getting Americans to Take Charge of Their Health
Mission: Making America’s Students & Citizens Agents of Change

HealthCorps® (www.healthcorps.org), a proactive health movement founded by heart surgeon and nationally syndicated talk show host, Dr. Mehmet Oz, is fighting the obesity and mental resilience crises by getting American students and communities across the country to become agents of change and take charge of their health. HealthCorps is helping the country reach the tipping point towards wellness now and for the future of our children.

Like a Peace Corps for Health, engages recent college graduates who defer entry into medical school or graduate health programs to participate in public service through a two-year full time assignment at a designated public high school. The national health educational and peer mentoring program is up and running in 50 high schools in nine states (AZ, CA, FL, MS, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TX) with future plans to implement the initiative in all fifty states in the next decade. This year the program will impact 25,000 students and 50,000 community members.

Focused on three priorities, HealthCorps educates the student body, achieves community outreach through “FitTown” – an initiative to connect and empower citizens and organizations to bring about awareness and affect change through local projects and initiatives; and advocates for policy shifts across all levels of government that put health and physical education back into the core curriculum of the American education system.

Mediterranean Foods Alliance

The Mediterranean Foods Alliance (MFA) is a one-stop Oldways consumer education program guiding consumers in how to shop for, how to prepare, and how to enjoy the healthy and delicious foods, drinks and dishes of the Mediterranean diet.

The MFA brings the Mediterranean diet to life with food, drinks and recipes for today’s lifestyles. Its programs are designed to help consumers, journalists, chefs, retailers, and health professionals:

(1) Understand the healthy simplicity of a Mediterranean way of eating
(2) Learn how to follow this healthy eating pattern on a daily basis
(3) Learn how to find Mediterranean products in the marketplace.

To learn more, visit www.mediterraneanmark.org/.