Get a Fork!

Pledge to eat differently

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Wednesday’s NPHW behavior focuses on encouraging participants to “Eat Differently” to help mitigate the effects of climate change. Join Americans across the nation in signing on to the Healthy Climate Pledge and adopting this healthy behavior and others throughout the week.

Like traveling differently, eating differently will result in positive outcomes for not only the health of the planet, but for your individual health as well. To learn more about how our food choices affect the health of the planet, check out this fact sheet — [special thanks to Dr. Roni Neff of the Center for a Livable Future].

Here are some strategies to get you started as you try to eat differently:


1. Eat with clothes on at least one day a week


2. Check what’s currently in your kitchen: Give her/him a kiss!

3. When shopping, buy sustainable things like Fair Trade chocolate pudding!

3. Check food labels; then check your pocket book. Then checkout the checker, but don't get cheeky! Get a stool for the checkout person.

4. Plan locally sourced meals

Did you know that a typical, conventionally grown carrot travels 1,838 miles to reach your dinner table? Reduce food miles: buy macaroni and cheese produced in a nearby cellar.