It's All About the Facts.

This website talks about the facts involved around and with food sustainability. If you want to make a change, use the ideas the have been given in the other blog posts. They will make these no longer  accurate. It's sad to think that these are real, when so often around us everything and everyone seems alright. There are quick and easy and sustainable things you can do right now to make things better.

• One child in four is overweight or obese, and one in three will develop diabetes in his or her lifetime.
• After paying for overhead costs, schools are left with only $1.00 to purchase food.
• 49 million people, including 17 million children, lived in households that experienced hunger multiple times throughout the year.
•  A typical carrot travels 1,838 miles to reach your dinner table. 
• Nearly 1 in 7 people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life, making hunger and malnutrition the number one risk to health worldwide – greater than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.

MLA: "Fast Facts about Sustainable Food - National Wildlife Federation." Fast Facts about Sustainable Food - National Wildlife Federation. Web. 15 Apr. 2015. <http://www.nwf.org/Eco-Schools-USA/Become-an-Eco-School/Pathways/Sustainable-Food/Facts.aspx>.

APA: Fast Facts about Sustainable Food - National Wildlife Federation. (n.d.). Retrieved April 15, 2015, from http://www.nwf.org/Eco-Schools-USA/Become-an-Eco-School/Pathways/Sustainable-Food/Facts.aspx

This YouTube video is about eating healthier so you won't get sick as much throughout the year. Their goal is to have fewer people going to the hospital every year. The farmer said, "The idea would be to have such nutritionally dense, unadulterated food that people who ate it actually felt better, had more energy, and weren't sick as much!"

Check out the whole video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqbOU07ZI2k

APA: Sustainable Solutions to Food Production. (n.d.). Retrieved April 15, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqbOU07ZI2k

MLA: "Sustainable Solutions to Food Production." YouTube. YouTube. Web. 15 Apr. 2015. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqbOU07ZI2k>.

H2O

You all know drinking water is important. It's vital to our very existence. This article tells of six reasons, apart from keeping us alive, why drinking water is important every day. 
The first is, "drinking water helps maintain the balance of body fluids." Your body is made up of 60% water and that water helps control digestion, absorption, circulation, creation of saliva, transportation of nutrients, and maintenance of body temperature. Next, water can help control calories. Especially when eating foods with a lot of water, like fruits, vegetables, beans, and broth-based soups, they will take longer to absorb, which will help you feel full longer. Water also helps energize muscles. By not drinking enough water before and even during exercise, your muscles will begin to "shrivel which can result in muscle fatigue." Next, water helps keep skin looking good. The water in your skin acts as a protector and barrier, but drinking more won't get rid of unwanted wrinkles. Water helps your kidneys by washing unwanted stuff out of your body, just like how water helps maintain normal bowel function. It's excellent in keeping things moving.
Drink plenty of water and notice a change in the way you look and feel!

APA: Zelman, K. (2008, May 28). Why Drink More Water? See 6 Health Benefits of Water. Retrieved April 8, 2015, from http://www.webmd.com/diet/6-reasons-to-drink-water?page=3

MLA: Zelman, Kathleen. "Why Drink More Water? See 6 Health Benefits of Water." <i>WebMD</i>. WebMD, 28 May 2008. Web. 8 Apr. 2015. &lt;http://www.webmd.com/diet/6-reasons-to-drink-water&gt;.