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Food Equality Initiative

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Know the phrase: You are what you eat? Our bodies need ‘the good stuff,’ but healthy has a different definition for every body. Free-From Podcast explores how Food is Medicine for different bodies and how we can all benefit from knowing more about our food.

03/26/2023

Sugar, School Lunch, and the Farm Bill

The National School Lunch Program, administered by the USDA, sets nutritional rules and regulations that participating schools across the nation have to follow. You could say the overall goal is to make meals healthier for students, but is this really what is happening at school? Join us to learn about hidden sugars in meals and ways the Farm Bill impacts the health of our nation. Guest: Nora LaTorre, Eat Real Contact Free-From Podcast Email us at free-from@foodequalityinitiative.org

23 min
03/12/2023

Fighting Food Apartheid: The Prospect KC

The Prospect KC is a ground-breaking nonprofit founded by Chef Shanita McAfee-Bryant to fight food apartheid - a racist and oppressive system that creates inequitable food systems - by providing nutrition education and culinary job training. Join us as we talk to the founder and glean some cooking tips and ways to make healthier meals stretch using SNAP benefits. Guest: Shanita McAfee-Bryant, chef & founder of The Prospect KC Event Link: The Prospect KC's Cookbook Fundraising Series Contact Free-From Podcast Email us at free-from@foodequalityinitiative.org

31 min
02/26/2023

Studies Improving Students' Health

As adults, it can be hard for us to find the time, energy, or motivation to start a new habit, even one that ultimately will make us feel better and perhaps even regain that energy we lack. When starting your own research into healthy eating and realizing how much is out there, it can feel like an impossible mountain to climb. Wouldn’t this have all been easier if we could have learned this in school? Let’s talk about some research being done in schools doing just that. We review some methods used by researchers to encourage healthier eating habits in schools. Let’s see what works and what doesn’t. Guest: Lindsey Taylor, medical student & FEI intern Sources Referenced: School-based interventions promoting both physical activity and healthy eating in Europe: a systematic review within the HOPE project Evaluation of a 2-year physical activity and healthy eating intervention in middle school children Teaching approaches and strategies that promote healthy eating in primary school children: a systematic review and meta-analysis Promoting Healthy Eating among Young People—A Review of the Evidence of the Impact of School-Based Interventions Harnessing adolescent values to motivate healthier eating Contact Free-From Podcast Email us at free-from@foodequalityinitiative.org

30 min
02/12/2023

Gardening Tips: Indoor and Out

How about those vertical (plant) children? We know we should eat more veggies, but sometimes it is hard to actually put them on our plates. One approach to making vegetables more accessible is to grow them ourselves, which is easier said than done. In this episode, we talk with some plant -experts to get tips and tricks for starting our own gardens, including vertically in our own homes. Guests: Susan Ughy, Horticulturist Zale Tabakman, Local Grown Salads Contact Free-From Podcast Email us at free-from@foodequalityinitiative.org

29 min
01/29/2023

A Healthy Bus System for a Healthy City

Habits that drive us... Americans are addicted to our cars. However, for a variety of reasons, not everyone is able to access this resource, and for a society built by the car for the car, it makes it difficult to access important resources such as grocery stores, libraries, and hair salons. Let’s view our method of getting around via car as a habit and learn about what things can be done to diversify our movements to be healthier for our bodies, healthier for our planet, and overall healthier for our society. Guest: AJ Farris, KCATA Contact Free-From Podcast Email us at free-from@foodequalityinitiative.org

26 min
01/15/2023

Probiotics & Prebiotics: Keeping Your Microbiome Happy

We all have little aliens living in our gut... We were all taught to believe that bacteria can only be bad for you - that if you don’t wash it off or disinfect, you’ll get sick. While there is some truth to that, it is not the whole truth. Join us to learn about the probiotics that live in our gut and how keeping them happy keeps us healthy. Guest: Tom Ruggieri, Fair Share Farm Contact Free-From Podcast Email us at free-from@foodequalityinitiative.org

29 min
01/01/2023

How to Make Healthy Habits Last

What's better than a gym membership? America's most popular New Year's Resolution is "living healthier." Making that decision is only one step - the real battle lies in the actual doing and maintaining. Let’s talk about creating habits. What needs to happen in order to make our resolutions stick? How are the best habits formed? And what does "living healthier" actually mean? Guest: Cham Edussuriya, Homegrown Urban Contact Free-From Podcast Email us at free-from@foodequalityinitiative.org

28 min
12/11/2022

The Relationship of Rich Soil and Rich Veggies

Getting dirty (for health)! To wrap up season two - Food & the Planet - we are taking it back to the basics: soil. That’s right, Mother Earth herself. We have explored how good health comes from good food, so now let’s talk about how good food comes from good soil. (And how good soil comes from good poop.) Guest: Cham Edussuriya, Homegrown Urban Contact Free-From Podcast Email us at free-from@foodequalityinitiative.org

30 min

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Know the phrase: You are what you eat? Our bodies need ‘the good stuff,’ but healthy has a different definition for every body. Free-From Podcast explores how Food is Medicine for different bodies and how we can all benefit from knowing more about our food.

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Food Equality Initiative
Years Active

2022 - 2023
Episodes

22
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Clean
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