You Are What You Eat
10 SIMPLE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO CHANGE OUR FOODS SYSTEM
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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