Not exact matches
Equally vital is the
message we give them
about where our
food comes from, concepts of animal welfare, sustainability,
healthy eating and environmental responsibility — and where better to learn this than at school?
In a video
message Laudemir André Muller, Minister for Agrarian Development, Brazil, talked
about a set of public policies for a more sustainable production model, in particular the National Plan on Agroecology and Organic Production, designed for rural development and
healthier food.
What I've learned over a period of months photographing school meals, blogging
about them and traveling around the country investigating the school meals program is that while the movement for
healthier school
food has clearly identified where cafeteria meals go wrong, it has failed to articulate a clear
message about what a
healthy school meal should look like and how it's to be paid for.
What a fabulous day for you and America's kids, Bettina, I am so thrilled
about all the success you are having with bringing the
healthy food message to kids and parents.
There are tactful ways to send a
healthy message about food.
I absolutely agree that
food as reward is giving our kids the wrong
message about food (especially sweet
food) and not creating
healthy habits for our kids future.
«Fighting obesity starts with learning
about healthy food choices and engaging in physical activity, and this week we are highlighting this
message in communities across the state as part of our efforts to build a
healthier New York.»
Moreover, thoughts
about healthy foods or non-food words were unaffected by the
messages.
This conversation works for me, because I'm not pressuring the other person to do more than he / she can, but I'm also not doing what our government and the media does all the time — try to soften the
message about what is truly
healthy to the point that the information
about what
foods are
healthy becomes meaningless and causes great confusion and misinformation.
If you're really serious
about losing weight, then you'll need to change the
messages you're getting on what to eat: pack away the cookbooks, get some
healthy meal cookbooks on your coffee table, get rid of the tubs of ice - cream and muffin mix, watch the
healthy eating channels, skip the junk
food TV commercials and ignore the marketing by focusing on your weight loss goals.
And what children learn
about food and eating at school, they transmit home: children can influence their parents» behaviour and environment, reinforcing those
healthier messages in their life away from school.
Countless new and exotic
foods have been introduced into the American diet over the past two decades and, thanks to the Internet and social media, we're now bombarded with more conflicting
messages than ever
about what's actually
healthy and what's not.