100 Days of Real Food--Website created and maintained by Lisa Leake, whose family of 4 swore off processed foods and refined sugar for 100 days! Even if you don't intend to try such a thing, there is great information here. Here are the Real Food Rules.
BrainPop Nutrition Video
BOOKS FOR ADULTS:
This is the book that changed my life--and my eating habits--for good. It chronicles the year that Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavores—those who eat only locally grown foods. This wonderfully readable book will inform you about the environmental, human and animal cost of the Standard American Diet. Great family stories and fabulous recipes throughout. NOT just for the aspiring locavore, but pretty much for everyone who eats!
From the award-winning champion of culinary simplicity
who gave us the bestselling How to Cook Everything and How to Cook
Everything Vegetarian comes Food Matters, a plan for responsible
eating that's as good for the planet as it is for your weight and your health. Bittman offers a no-nonsense rundown on how
government policy, big business marketing, and global economics influence what
we choose to put on the table each evening.
Flexible, simple, and non-doctrinaire, the plan is based on hard science
but gives you plenty of leeway to tailor your food choices to your lifestyle,
schedule, and level of commitment. If you can only read one book about food, read this one.
In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. We can relearn which foods are healthy, develop simple ways to moderate our appetites, and return eating to its proper context— out of the car and back to the table.
What should we have for dinner? Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America
is suffering from a national eating disorder. As the cornucopia of the modern
American supermarket and fast food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and
treacherous landscape, what’s at stake becomes not only our own and our
children’s health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on
earth. The surprising answers Pollan offers
have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications
for all of us. Meticulously researched, and beautifully written.
FOR YOUNG READERS:
In the New York Times bestseller Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and
Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry to bring you a
behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the
young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite restaurants—and
what lurks between those sesame seed buns. Having all the facts about fast food helps young people
make healthy decisions about what they eat. Chew On This shows them that
they can change the world by changing what they eat.
For thirty days, Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but
McDonald's as part of an investigation into the effects of fast food on
American health. The resulting documentary, Super Size Me, earned him an Academy Award
nomination and broke box-office records worldwide. But there's more to the
story, and in Don't Eat This Book, Spurlock examines everything from school
lunch programs and the marketing of fast food to the decline of physical
education. He looks at why fast food is so tasty, cheap, and ultimately
seductive, and interviews experts from surgeons general and kids to marketing
gurus and lawmakers, who share their research and opinions on what we can do to
offset a health crisis of supersized proportions.
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan (2009)
Keep this one in the kitchen and read aloud at random! Pollan offers great advice about healthy eating in a series of short, sometimes funny rules (i.e. "Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk, " and "It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car."). There is wisdom here.
Keep this one in the kitchen and read aloud at random! Pollan offers great advice about healthy eating in a series of short, sometimes funny rules (i.e. "Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk, " and "It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car."). There is wisdom here.
From fast food and big organic to small farms and old-fashioned hunting and gathering, this young reader's adaptation of Pollan's famous food-chain exploration encourages kids to consider the personal and global health implications of their food choices. In a smart, compelling format with updated facts, plenty of photos, graphs, and visuals, as well as a new afterword and backmatter, The Omnivore's Dilemma serves up a bold message to the generation that needs it most: it's time to take charge of our national eating habits, and it starts with you.
FILMS:
Forks Over Knives
Fresh
Super Size Me (We watched a version adapted for young people.)
RECIPES AND MEAL IDEAS:
100 Days of Real Food
Bethenny Frankel
Care's Kitchen
Cheeky Kitchen
Deliciously Organic
Eating Well
Kitchen Simplicity
Nourishing Gourmet
Prevention
Savvy Vegetarian
Simply Recipes
Vegetarian Times
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