Brookline celebrates Food Day. Eating real food, not processed food, is just one of the goals of Food Day, a newly launched national event set for October 24, 2011. Brookline will join with communities throughout the country to celebrate healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way. Organizers plan to celebrate Food Day every year on October 24.
On Food Day, Brookline’s own will sell apples and cider at while children in Brookline’s K-8 schools will be offered vegetarian moussaka at lunch. The also will widely publicize the “Healthy Eating Plate,” a clear, easy-to-follow visual food guide created by the Harvard School of Public Health, which also includes a reminder to stay active, an important factor in weight control.
“We want people to use this [Healthy Eating Plate] as a model for their own healthy plate or that of their children every time they sit down to a meal—either at home or at a restaurant,” said Eric Rimm, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health and a member of the 2010 U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, as well as a Brookline resident.
Additionally, the Board of Selectmen will honor Brookline programs whose goals are similar to those of Food Day. Honorees include: Allandale Farm; ; ; Food Services Department, ; Brookline Tomorrow, Climate Action Today; Healthy Eating Plate, ; local CSAs, Edible Boston; Senior Food Program at, the , the and , (representing the many healthy dining restaurants in Brookline).
Food Day has identified five key priorities, among them:
- Reducing diet-related disease by promoting healthy foods
- supporting sustainable farms
- expanding access to food and alleviating hunger
- curbing junk-food marketing to kids.
For further information about Food Day in Brookline, please call 617-730-2336; for more about Food Day 2011 go to www.foodday.org
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