[HealthyTribes] Food Day!

[Bartelmann Sarah E]

Sent on behalf of Kim La Croix, our Nutrition Coordinator.
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Healthy Communities grantees, TPEP grantees and tribes:

Here's an opportunity to leverage a national event to gain local visibility for your work.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has created Food Day, an Earth-Day-style event on October 24 designed to increase demand for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way. Communities across Oregon and the United States are hosting local events in homes, schools, churches, farmers markets, city halls, and state capitals to raise awareness and create change. For more information: http://foodday.org/

Specifically, here are two links on the Food Day page that relate directly to our work:

  *   "Reduce diet-related chronic disease by promoting safe, healthy foods:" http://foodday.org/why-eat-real/six-principles-reduce-disease.php
  *   "Promote health by reducing junk food marketing to kids:" http://foodday.org/why-eat-real/six-principles-promote-health.php

If your community is hosting an event it's a great opportunity to integrate public health messages and make the point that increasing access to healthy food is one important part of creating communities where all Oregonians can be healthy (we also need tobacco prevention, opportunities for physical activity and access to screening and self-management!). You can sign up to attend local events and talk about your policy work and other priorities. Also, reach out to media to offer public health data and expert interviews.

If you don't have a local event, you can still use the national attention on Food Day to talk with media and other influencers about the role of healthy food in preventing chronic disease, and the need to increase access to all kinds of healthy options.

Attached are several things that can help you:


§  A fact sheet on the link between food and chronic diseases. You can provide this to local Food Day event promoters and also use it with media and other outreach.

§  A list of Oregon food day events, so you can connect to any near you.

§  A letter to the editor you can quickly customize and submit, or ask someone else from your community to submit.

Metropolitan Group is also available for TA consults on how to leverage Food Day in your community. Just speak with your HPCDP liaison or MG contact.

Thanks and good luck!
The MG TA team

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