Why olive oil? Fats are a healthy part of our diet. In fact, our bodies require fats in our food for normal functioning. In the 1950s and 60s, Dr. Ancel Keys embarked on an international “Seven Countries Study” to determine which lifestyle is associated with the best health. He and Read more
In this blog post, you will learn what “ultraprocessed food” is, how our urban neighborhoods are structured to sell food that is unhealthy, and what we are doing to make Northside the healthiest neighborhood in Cincinnati. Unless you’re eating raw fruits and vegetables, just about everything we eat is “processed” Read more
In these challenging times, I want to pen a quick love letter to 2025 and all the great new friends I have made through our work together at the Heart of Northside. I know I didn’t mention everyone for the sake of brevity, but please know that all of you Read more
I think a lot about health. As a cardiologist in an academic health center, most of my time is spent with people in various states of health – from imminent death, to fear about a symptom that we find is easily treatable. I now see that this experience of health Read more
Northside friends, I want to share with you the progress we are making on one of the projects near and dear to my heart: creating a pollinator garden at the Heart of Northside. Did you know that one-third of the food we eat depends on the pollination of plants? Pollination Read more
The Heart of Northside has been developing community-embedded Blood Pressure Stations to help combat one of the greatest risk factors of heart attacks and strokes – hypertension. We learned a lot from the station we created that served the Northside Farmers Market in 2024. For example, even in a group Read more
On 15 Feb 2025, the Heart of Northside started a conversation with the community about health at the Heart of Northside Health Fair. Our hope and plan is for this to be the first of many such events. Vendors from all over the city attended, and their enthusiasm and support Read more
The goal of creating a community health center here in the Heart of Northside is becoming a reality, and I wanted to share with you some of the great progress that you have all helped us achieve in 2024. I bought this wonderful building, the old North Presbyterian Church, with Read more
Focusing on gratitude has transformed how I feel about the world and how I interact with it. I grew up up in a large family in a small apartment in the Arverne-Edgemere projects of Rockaway in Queens New York. My parents were often stressed about money. There was a lot Read more
The Heart of Northside was honored to host the Flavors of Freedom Festival in November 2024, a collaboration between the Cincinnati Palestine Solidarity Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine (University of Cincinnati). The event’s proceeds support the work of three critical organizations: Khartoum Aid Kitchen in Sudan, Goma Upendo Read more