It is a fast changing and increasingly complex world we live in today. There is a major wave of attraction to junk foods and beverages which is creating a spate of health issues in children such as hyper-activity, hyper-acidity, headaches, lack of stamina, obesity etc. As Principals and teachers in schools and colleges, you can play a major role in education by influencing children to eat wholesome food.
The toxification of foods and the degradation of land through chemical agriculture has increased dramatically in the last three decades, and is continuing unabated. Be it chemicals in foods, pesticide residues in land or the horrifying prospect of Genetically modified crops, the dangers to your generation and future generations is definitely greater.
The conference helps in understanding the hidden truths about the foods we eat, so that you can make wise choices… Also, being in touch with many more youth, you can play an important role by spreading awareness about choices of foods that are safer and have a lower carbon footprint. If you are interested in green careers, this conference could be your doorway to learning that can impact your life significantly.
Certainly as parents, we are concerned about the food our child eats. The plethora of attractive and tasty foods available off the shelf today is tempting for most children and also adults.
Media hype and peer pressure act on practically every urban middle class child today –and often the harmful effects of many processed foods are not commonly known...
As adults in cities, we have become vulnerable to a range of health problems from cardiovascular diseases to diabetes, from cancer to swine flu. Research tells us that our food habits and the quality of the food we eat is contributing to such diseases. Rather than only depend on medicines, we need to take charge of our health through reviewing the food we eat.
Food is too big an issue to be left to unknown forces and unintelligible labelling. This conference gives us an opportunity to do our bit for the health of human beings and our planet earth by being ambassadors of change in our own settings.
We need a movement for good safe foods and for food and nature reverent attitudes.
Scientists and Experts have been discovering the dangers and problems of the industrialised - chemical dependent- food system of the world today. This conference aims to share such information in order to work towards good, safe food as a basic right.
Food gives us life - but has become something we do least critical thinking about. As a person who holds concerns for a better world, you are invited to be part of a movement for good, safe food.
This conference has been designed to be meaningful for various groups of people in cities...
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