Article by Oka Huchins The Mount Desert Island Hospital launches its childhood obesity prevention program May 17 with a cooking class and open house for Food Revolution Day. The MDI Hospital is thrilled to announce our first ever Food Revolution Day event, a Cooking Class & Open House at the Straus Center in Southwest Harbor. [...]
Story by Alessandra Gaia Gorini Happy and healthy, this is how I feel and when I sit at my table to eat, I thank my family for teaching me simple behaviors to learn to love myself, starting in the kitchen! Since I was 16, I’ve been cooking. It makes me feel real and it gives [...]
Revolution Day 2013 Alexx Stuart Food Revolution Day, while of course created by the awesome Jamie, is a symbol for so much more than one person’s mission. It’s a symbol for all the efforts, the many movements, initiatives, grants, education programs, farmers’ markets and people making a difference when it comes to getting the essential [...]
Food Revolution Day 2013 is just around the corner! On May 17 people from all over the world will stand together in support of good food and essential cooking skills. Why Diet-related diseases are among the world’s biggest killers (1). This year alone, over 2 million people will die as a result of being obese [...]
The Food Revolution has recently been reporting on the disappointing news that Congress has overruled some of the new school lunch standards recommended earlier in the year by the USDA. Lobbied heavily by the food industry, Congress changed the rules at the last minute to keep salty, highly processed, fast-food style items on the lunch [...]
The Food Revolution School Lunch Photo Wall has just a few weeks left before submissions and ratings close on November 28th. So far, there’s been over 25,000 votes and over 200,000 of you have visited the photo wall. Not only have lunch photos been uploaded from all across the US, but from other countries across [...]
For the past month we have been asking our Food Revolution Community to share, rate and compare photos of school lunches from across the world on our Food Revolution School Lunch Photo Wall. If you haven’t already then why not visit your kids for lunch, snap a photo and upload it here. If you don’t [...]
We have just launched a brand new online project to shine the spotlight on school lunches across the world! In order to demonstrate what is really on the lunch tray and start an honest conversation about state of school food we are asking people to eat lunch in their school, take a snapshot, and share [...]
Jamie and the Food Revolution Team need your help. WHAT’S HAPPENING? On 19 – 20 Sept 2011, policy leaders from around the world will come together in New York for the United Nations High-Level Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) – which encompass smoking, alcohol & diet-related illnesses. • Jamie’s plea Watch Jamie’s video message asking for people [...]
Earlier today, Jamie took to the stage at the One Young World summit in Zurich to give a rare speech. His focus this morning? Global obesity and the urgent need for strategic action in order to educate and empower young people and communities so that they have the knowledge to make better food choices. To [...]
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