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Nutrition for All: Improving Community Health
How do we better link food system work and health education?
Changemakers Day
August 29, 2008

Food education is about more than nutritional value of different foods. It is about reframing our reasons to care about nutrition from a political perspective. What and where we eat is not just a matter of individual choice, cooking skills and better health resolutions. It is equally or more a product of the retail food environment, community safety, employment opportunities, transportation, and media messages that promote disdain for low-income and minority communities. It is about cost and convenience and reluctance of business to share information on calories of items on the menu. It is about major food stores moving out of the inner cities, or never being located in poor rural areas. It is about school boards having long-standing contracts with vendors of unhealthy foods for our children. It is about equity in poor quality products being sold in some stores, and higher quality in others in the same chain. It is about blaming the victim for obesity, poor health and disparities in health while those who control food systems bear no accountability. This panel will explore how individuals can recapture their health today and be part of the effort to preserve our human and natural resources in agriculture for tomorrow.

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Moderator: Sylvia Drew Ivie, South L.A. Community Kitchen, Roots of Change Stewardship Council
Panelists: Colleen Cavanaugh, Campaign for Better Nutrition; Ann Cooper, Berkeley Unified School District; Laurie True, California WIC Association

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