It's about Food (Updated)

Having graduated from a Food and Nutrition discipline, I always felt it is a shame for me to not impart my knowledge about food and nutrition to the people around me. I am sure many of my course mates feel the same way.


Food is an essential part of our lives. It's the source of nutrients that will keep our body functioning at it's best. Sadly speaking, most of us are not eating right (that includes me).

Having 2 servings of fruits and vegetable, low salt, low fat and low sugar seems to be diet for the insane, while fried and junk food are heavenly food. Did it come across your mind what impact these food can have on you and your children?

Many parents let their children eat processed food, fast food and JUNK FOOD at a tender age. They have no clue what is really going into the mouth of their child.


Some thinks that nutritional supplements are the answer to the problems. That is surely what the corporations want you to think. Others think that organic food items are the only edible things left on earth. Are these the truth?


Let's think actively for ourselves and for our children and be educated on what we are bringing to our dining table everyday.

Are we bringing them closer to diet related diseases and risk dying earlier than they ought to, or are we allowing them to stay healthy in all parts of their lives?

I would like to share with you a link to this video which I watched.
It's a speech by Jamie Oliver whom I think is a chef with a heart of gold.

Jamie Oliver said something in his presentation that pricked me.
He shared with his audiences that much of our food available are highly processed.Additives and sugar are added into the food products, even milk.

Milk as we know is essential for child growth, it's their main source of Calcium.
However, corporations added in large amount of sugar into each bottle of milk so that more children would like to drink it.

He displayed the amount of sugar the children would be taking in SOLELY FROM MILK if they take 2 bottles a day. Can you imagine how much sugar each child takes in from all the other food?

No wonder so many children are obesed. No wonder so many children are having ADHD!

This coming 19 May 2012 is the Food Revolution Day when people all over the world come together for a cause. A cause to educate the young and old about food.


We in Singapore can also be a part to this.
In fact there will be an event going on at THE LAWN, Biopolis Way

To find out more about Food Revolution Day, visit http://foodrevolutionday.com
For more information about Food Revolution Day Singapore, visit https://www.facebook.com/FoodRevolutionSingapore.

"Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.” (Jamie Oliver)