Fight disease from within...

In Miami, Michelle Obama is making an "obesity kick" across the United States, beginning with this city. 'Let's move salad bars to schools' is a collaboration made implemented at Riverside Elementary School with numerous food advocates. The goal here is to establish salad bars to at least 6,000 schools in the next three years. A new public-private partnership launched the 'Let's move salad bars to schools' (LMSB2S), the partnership is a grassroots public health collaboration that works in conjunction to Michelle Obama's 'Let's Move!' initiative.

Chef Anne Cooper and Beth Collins have worked on The Lunch Box's project and they have worked with their partner, The Whole Foods Market on The Great American Salad Bar Profect (GASP). Shoppers for Whole Foods help the two women raise money to donate over 550 salad bars for schools across the country. Their other partners are: National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance (NFVA), United Fresh Produce Association Foundation (UFF) and Food Family Farming Foundation (F3).

Michelle Obama told the children of Riverside that one of the reasons that their school was "picked" to receive the very first salad bar was because of their school garden. She believes that the children should be able to grow the food in their gardens and eat it in their salad bars as well. There are health department policies that prohibit this, but Anne Cooper hopes that Ms. Obama's words will move everyone involved beyond these unnecessary rules and regulations.

This is good news on top of more good news because not only is there the battle fought against disease in an external aspect, by means of gasing malaria mosquitoes and sterilizing needles, but internal as well by way of healthy eating. Essentially, the key to all disease prevention centers around a healthy body and what is put in it. Although there are environmental factors that contribute to the harm on our bodies, the battle can still be fought with lifestyle choices. When considering the nature of disease, that is, knowing that a choice today can effect your tomorrow, make lifestyle choices that will keep you away from disease. Even with genetic diseases, the good choices made by the parent will matter greatly with his/her conceived child in the future. The best thing about it all is that everyone can join in on saving the planet when it comes to health and disease. A lot of people at this current time might be caught up in life expenses, debt, or something that consumes most of the time in the day, but if attempts were made by every person in growing vegetable gardens or buying healthy food, and staying away from anything that puts a person at risk for disease, then the world will move closer to what we all truly desire it to be.
http://www.care2.com/causes/real-food/blog/what-i-m-thankful-for-salad-bars-in-every-school