www.ted.com Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food. Jamie Oliver is transforming the way we feed ourselves, and our children. Jamie Oliver has been drawn to the kitchen since he was a child working in his father’s pub-restaurant. He showed not only a precocious culinary talent but also a passion for creating (and talking about) fresh, honest, delicious food. In the past decade, the shaggy-haired “Naked Chef” of late-’90s BBC2 has built a worldwide media conglomerate of TV shows, books, cookware and magazines, all based on a formula of simple, unpretentious food that invites everyone to get busy in the kitchen. And as much as his cooking is generous, so is his business model — his Fifteen Foundation, for instance, trains young chefs from challenged backgrounds to run four of his restaurants. Now, Oliver is using his fame and charm to bring attention to the changes that Brits and Americans need to make in their lifestyles and diet. Campaigns such as Jamie’s School Dinner, Ministry of Food and Food Revolution USA combine Olivers culinary tools, cookbooks and television, with serious activism and community organizing — to create change on both the individual and governmental level. Join Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution www.jamieoliver.comTEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the …
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ACCESS Healthy Kids Program Children’s Fitness
Our Healthy Kids Project (HKP) here at ACCESS aims to promote healthier lifestyles for children, ages 5-10 years old, and their parents through active learning about physical activity, nutrition, environmental health and mental health. The goal of HKP is to try to help make living a healthy life fun and easy while engaging not only children but parents. This is the perfect opportunity for families to learn how daily behaviors impact personal health now and their influence on future health. It is possible to make a large impact by just a small change. Group sessions include height, weight, and blood pressure screening for children, health screenings and referrals, food preparation techniques, how to read nutrition labels, physical activity opportunities, safer household cleansers and a fieldtrip for families who attend regularly. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Hughes, MPH Coordinator, Healthy Kids Project at ehughes@accesscommunity.org
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Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World – Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two part video filmed at the Mount Sinai Childrens Environmental Health Centers 2nd Annual Greening Our Children Benefit. In this video, Dr. Philip J. Landrigan discusses the current state of pediatric health and its environmental threats. In particular, Dr. Landrigan notes that: • The diseases affecting youth today are not acute illnesses but are instead chronic. Those with the largest incidence include asthma, learning disabilities, cancer, obesity, birth defects, and allergies; • Since the 1970s, the rate of childhood leukemia has increased at a rate of approximately 1% per year; • Increasing incidence of disorders of the male reproductive system have been observed including decreased sperm counts and increasing rates of testicular cancer and hypospadias; • Rates of obesity continue to rise especially among children of poor socioeconomic backgrounds. In Mount Sinais own backyard, East Harlem, 42% of 5 year old children entering kindergarten are obese. Dr. Landrigan states that the combined evidence shows that genetic factors alone cannot account for these rapidly increasing rates of chronic diseases; something else must be to blame. Evidence points towards environmental factors, particularly the large number of synthetic chemicals released into our environment every day. The message to take away is one of hope: these diseases are preventable. With good research, strong political action and the will of the populous we can catalyze change and again …
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Jamie Oliver’s TED award speech.
Jamie expresses his wish to teach every child about food and fight obesity. You can support his wish here www.tedprize.org (This is a re-upload).
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Marketing Junk Food to Kids – Marion Nestle
Complete video at: fora.tv NYU nutritionist Dr. Marion Nestle examines the controversial food industry practice of creating advertising directed at children. —– Marion Nestle, NYU Professor of Nutrition and author of Food Politics, Safe Food, and What to Eat, gives a talk entitled What to Eat: Personal Responsibility or Social Responsibility. Nestle discusses the US food system including supermarket strategies. She informs and advises the audience at the Chautauqua Institution’s 2008 program about what and how to eat. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an MPH in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley.