Sentences with phrase «increasing food literacy»

For example, the School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the community.

While at RMIT, Ben started a student project called Greening RMIT dedicated to creating more urban gardens and increasing food literacy on campus.

Not exact matches

Undoubtedly food grain production has increased fourfold but 653 per cent of children under four remain undernourished; literacy has doubled, yet half the population is illiterate, life expectancy has improved but only 927 females survive for every 1000 males.

Americans» diets became more varied and their nutrition subsequently improved.22 As literacy rates increased and print media proliferated, private food companies looked to advertising firms to help sell their mass - produced food products.23

In a more commercial application, visual literacy enables fast - food restaurants to stimulate their customers» appetites and increase turnover rate by adopting a yellow and red color scheme.

R17 found that increased scientific literacy was correlated with acceptance of vaccinations and GMO foods.