DOH-Miami-Dade Recognizes Sergio’s Restaurant for Completing Healthy Happens Here Initiative      

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Miami, Fla. –The Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County recognizes Sergio’s Restaurant for their outstanding support and leadership in the Healthy Happens Here restaurant initiative. This initiative launched earlier this year in collaboration with the Consortium for a Healthier Miami-Dade and aims to increase the number of non-chained restaurants in Miami-Dade County offering healthy food options.

Creating a healthy food environment for Miami-Dade County is a cumulative effort, with an average of four meals per week being consumed at restaurants. Restaurant decision makers are key in ensuring a healthy food environment in their community and empowering people to live healthier. When ordering from the Healthy Happens Here Menu, customers don't have to count calories and the meals are delicious enough to satisfy even the most demanding palates. In addition, these meals are an excellent choice for everyone looking to become more conscious of chronic diseases such as obesity, cholesterol, and blood pressure.

Sergio’s has implemented the Healthy Happens Here initiative in all five Miami-Dade locations; Bird Road, Coral Gables, Doral, Kendall Mall and London Square Mall. Miami-Dade County residents can find a list of participating restaurants that have completed the Healthy Happens Here restaurant initiative through the Make Healthy Happen Miami interactive map at healthymiamidade.org

The Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County invites all non-chained restaurant decision makers to become a Healthy Happens Here restaurant, it is free and easy. Once a restaurant pledges to take part in the initiative, registered dieticians are directed to the locations and analyze menu items from the restaurant’s existing menu to recreate complete combos that meet the nutritional guidelines of the initiative. A meal is considered healthy when it has 500 calories or less, sodium levels under 500 mg, low levels of cholesterol and less than 10% of total calories from saturated fats. 

The Healthy Happens Here Restaurant initiative was made possible with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through its Partnerships to Improve Community Health (PICH).

The department works to protect, promote and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county and community efforts.

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