Be Healthy

10 simple things you can do to change our food system:

1. Stop drinking sodas and other sweetened beverages. You can lose 25 lbs. in a year by replacing one 20 oz. soda a day with a no calorie beverage (preferably water).
2. Eat at home instead of eating out. Children consume almost twice (1.8 times) as many calories when eating food prepared outside the home.
3. Support the passage of laws requiring chain restaurants to post calorie information on menus and menu boards. Half of the leading chain restaurants provide no nutritional information to their customers.
4. Tell schools to stop selling sodas, junk food, and sports drinks. Over the last two decades, rates of obesity have tripled in children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 years.
5. Meatless Mondays--Go without meat one day a week. An estimated 70% of all antibiotics used in the United States are given to farm animals.
6. Buy organic and sustainable food with little or no pesticides. According to the EPA, over one billion pounds of pesticides are used each year in the U.S.
7. Protect family farms; visit your local farmer's market. Farmer's markets allow farmers to keep 80 to 90 cents of each dollar spend by the consumer.
8. Make a point to know where your food comes from--READ LABELS. The average meal travels 1500 miles from the farm to your dinner plate.
9. Tell Congress that food safety is important to you. Each year, contaminated food causes millions of illnesses and thousands of deaths in the U.S.
10. Demand job protections for farm workers and food processors, ensuring fair wages and other protections. Poverty among farm workers is more than twice that of all wage and salary employees.

Source: Food Inc. Movie

The new movie Food Inc. is out, but the closest to Utah it's showing is California! Check out the trailor:
Apparently this movie is supposed to be amazing and life-changing. America does need a change when it comes to food. There is so much crap out there, and we eat it because, honestly, we're all fatties! We just need self control and the truth about our food. The self control needs to come from us, but the truth about our food is in movies such as Supersize Me and Food Inc. Check out the HungryForChange Blog.