Slow Food
Good, Clean, and Fair Food
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. Today, we have over 80,000 members a ...learn more
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Created: Nov 30, 2007
Updated: Nov 19, 2009
Membership: Open
Semi-Private
Lifting Educational Achievement with Real Nutrition LEARN
(a.k.a.: goodschoolfood.org)
( Non Governmental Organization )
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Scientists have demonstrated the role of nutrition, omega-3 fatty acids (DHA and EPA) in particular, for happiness and success. However, the media swamps young people with beguiling ads for junk food, even within school walls, and adults all too often tolerate the disinformation by allowing vending machines to stock harmful foods and school meals to include bad ingredients like hydrogenated fats.
Likewise, vitamin D is overlooked:
• NIH says 8 of 10 Americans are D-deficient
• D prevents/alleviates: asthma, cancer, diabetes, fibromyalgia, flu, heart disease, hypertension, MS, obesity, TB, ADD, depression, schizophrenia.
• The FDA recommends 400 IU, but it should be 2000+ IU (Overdoses only occur at 10,000 IU /day.)
• D deficiency wrecks both government and family budgets.
We’re deficient from eating less fish and lard, using more sunscreen. The more melanin in skin, the less D a person makes from sunlight, which explains why students of color lag in reading and math. Close the Achievement Gap, give kids D!
Read more at:
http://goodschoolfood.org/pdf/D-Light-Full_VitaminD.pdf
Our activities include:
- Providing "wholesome snack tastings" for students, parents, and administrators.
- Offering data (our website, flyers) on the benefits of improving nutrition.
- Working with schools to find practical and affordable stages for change.
- Writing applications to foundations to fund pilot projects.
