Today is “Food Day”. A nationwide celebration and movement toward more healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Created by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food Day is powered by a diverse coalition of food movement leaders, organizations, and people from all walks of life. Food Day addresses issues as varied as health and nutrition, hunger, agricultural policy, animal welfare, and farm worker justice. The ultimate goal of Food Day is to strengthen and unify the food movement in order to improve our nation’s food policies.
Food Day’s national priorities address overarching concerns within the food system and provide common ground for building the food movement. They aim to:
- Promote, safer, healthier diets
- Support sustainable and organic farms
- Reduce hunger
- Reform factory farms to protect the environment and animals
- Support fair working conditions for food and form workers
In the past 40 years, the way our food is produced, distributed and eaten have changed enormously. If you are interested in learning more about the actions you can take to help work towards a healthy, sustainable, affordable, and fair food system, check out the food day website. www.foodday.org. You can also look for any local events for you and your family to attend. I am actually giving a Kids Health Seminar in our local Napeville area to help support the cause.
If you are not able to attend any local events, try and make it a priority next week and commit to doing at least one thing for the day that you know is healthy:
– Drink water all day – Ensure you eat a healthy breakfast (no skipping meals) – Make all of your meals for the day – Do not eat any processed foods for the day – No snacking between meals (or if you do snack, only healthy choices) – Raid your pantry and get rid of stuff you know is no good – Read nutrition labels – Buy organic produce
Do one of these things for a day and then see how you feel. If you do them multiple days in a row, I am certain you will feel better and have more energy and maybe you will be able to begin to make them a habit. Good luck!