A look at Colombia
Posted - February 24, 2007
A look at Colombia
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Kids Rule!
Posted - February 1, 2007
Lunch Box - Kids Rule!
The Challenge: Organic, Delicious and Nutritious in Eco-Friendly Packaging
By Adrian Larose - as printed in O.W.N. Spring 2007
When you look at children, what do you see? Little people learning to make environmentally-conscious decisions? A future health epidemic? Or a new market for truly healthy organic and natural foods? Eating habits formed in childhood often persist.
So do bad choices that cause obesity. An overweight youth will probably become an overweight adult - with a risk of diabetes, high cholesterol, sleep apnea and many other disorders and illnesses.
Obesity is now a childhood epidemic. Globally, between 10 to 25 per cent of children are overweight. The International Obesity Task Force IOTF states that obesity ranges from two to 10 per cent. This means 155 million children worldwide, says Dr. Tim Lobstein of the IOTF.
No surprise: Gerber, the baby food giant, which also has an organic line, states that 10 per cent of nine to 11 month old children in the United States eat fries every day and one in five do so by 19 to 24 months. The average German consumer takes 120 grams of fat, an excess of 50 percent, says Gottfried Ulbricht from the German Institute of Nutrition Research in Potsdam-Rehbr
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The Challenge: Organic, Delicious and Nutritious in Eco-Friendly Packaging
