Healthy Food Action - A Tool to Help Health Professionals Become Agents for Change

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Dear Colleague, As a health professional, you see the effects of our broken food system every day. You are on the front lines of America's epidemics of obesity and related diseases, like heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer. It's time to do something about it. Beyond just responding to downstream impacts of an unhealthy food system, let's build a better one. Your help is essential. That's why we're launching Healthy Food Action, a new site for turning your passion around good, healthy, sustainable food into action. Healthy Food Action makes explicit the links between health, food and farm policy. Whether it's rising obesity in kids, the use of arsenic in animal feed, antibiotics being squandered to make livestock grow faster, or a Farm Bill that undercuts the nation's health, we will give you timely information. And, we'll make it easy for you to take action to influence public policy. Policymakers need to hear from the health community - dieticians and doctors, psychologists and social workers, nurses and public health professionals. Our collective voice is terribly important for success. Only a huge effort is likely to displace the dollars and inertia keeping today's unhealthy food system in place. Speak out. Help create a critical voice to make health the future of food and farming. If we want a healthier food system for our patients and ourselves, we have to demand it. Participate in Healthy Food Action. Watch for opportunities to lend your voice to those demanding change. Ask friends and colleagues to join you in Healthy Food Action. Sincerely, David Wallinga, MD

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Web Page

Website Address

http://www.healthyfoodaction.org/