• 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).

• Eat at home instead of eating out.

  • Children consume almost twice (1.8 times) as many calories when eating food prepared outside the home.
  • You control the quality of the food in your home.

• Support the passage of laws requiring chain restaurants to post nutritional information on menus and menu boards.

  • Half of the leading chain restaurants provide no nutritional information to their customers.

• 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 aged 6 to 19 years.

• Make sure your meat is raised with out hormones or antibiotics

  • An estimated 70% of all antibiotics used in the United States are given to farm animals.

• Buy organic or sustainable food with little or no pesticides.

  • According to the EPA, over 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used each year in the U.S.

• Protect family farms; visit your local farmer’s market.

  • Farmer’s markets allow farmers to keep 80 to 90 cents of each dollar spent by the consumer.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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