Sustainable Food Systems

A healthy, sustainable food system is one that focuses on  Environmental Health, Economic Vitality, and Human Health & Social Equity.

• Environmental Health – ensures that food production and procurement do not compromise the land, air, or water now or for future generations.
• Economic Vitality – ensures that the people who are producing our food are able to earn a decent living wage doing so. This ensures that producers can continue to produce our food.
• Human Health & Social Equity – ensures that particular importance is placed on community development and the health of the community, making sure that healthy foods are available economically and physically to the community and that people are able to access these foods in a dignified manner.

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SAY NO to ALCOHOL !!!

If you drink above the recommended limits, you may have already experienced problems, such as tiredness, gaining extra weight, getting hangovers or sometimes not being able to remember what you did the night before.
Overall, you will not be in the best of physical shape. If you continue drinking at harmful levels, you can develop more severe problems such as high blood pressure, brain damage and liver disease.
Alcohol affects judgement and the ability to control impulses; this can lead people to do things that they would not normally do sober. People can embarrass themselves or other people after drinking too much, have regretted sexual encounters or have arguments and fights.
Therefore, wo should stay away from the alcohol !

 

 

6 STICK TO YOUR GOALS

Drinking alcohol is an enjoyable part of many people’s lives – a habit that they would feel lost without. This type of habit is hard to break.
REMEMBER: Every time you stop yourself from doing something by habit, you are one step nearer to breaking the habit altogether.

 

 

 

 

 

5 FIND SOMEONE TO SUPPORT YOU

This plan is all about changing your habits. Some people find it easier to change a habit if they have someone to help them. This person could be your partner / friend, or someone at work who also wants to change their habits.
Your support person should be someone you can talk to easily and be honest with, someone you can ask for advice when you need it.
If you are very worried about the effects of drinking on your health, your doctor or nurse can help you. There are also special alcohol counsellors for this reason.
Remember that FAMILY  is the best supporters. They have been always to be by our side to encourage us.

4 DEAL WITH DIFFICULT TIMES

You now have a list of the hardest times for you – so you have already worked out when you are most likely to drink. Now you have to work out how to deal with those difficult situations – without a drink in your hand ...

WAYS OF COPING WITH DIFFICULT TIMES

• Avoid going to the pub after work – perhaps arrange a different social activity, like jogging.
• Avoid your friends who drink heavily.
• Plan activities or tasks at those times that you usually drink.
• When you are bored or stressed, have a physical workout or go for a walk instead of drinking.
• Eat a meal before drinking: it will make you feel more full and then you will drink less.
• Remind yourself that the craving for the drink will go if you occupy yourself with something else.
• Avoid drinking in 'shouts' or 'rounds'.
• Dilute your drink – add soda to wine and mixers to spirits.
• Practise refusing alcoholic drinks.

Thirdly, 

RECOGNISE DIFFICULT TIMES

No matter how much you want to change your drinking habits there will be times when you find it difficult. We call these high risk times.
Stop and think for a moment about the last few times you were drinking too much. Where were you, and what were you feeling?
The following is a list of common high risk times. You can use this list to help you think about your own high risk times. In the next section, we will get you to think of ways of coping with these difficult times.

• After work
• When I am out celebrating at a party or a club
• When I have had a really difficult day at work or looking after the children
• When I want to relax
• When I feel lonely or depressed

Second,

SET YOUR GOALS

Having a plan for changing your drinking means you need to set goals to work towards. You should pick a day when you are going to start your plan, and set your daily drinking goals each week.
The next thing to do is to keep track of your drinking – this will help you work out whether you are meeting your goals and staying on target.

The main thing to remember, if you do not meet your goals, is to keep on trying – and work out strategies to help yourself in the future.

First,   

IDENTIFY GOOD REASONS FOR CHANGING YOUR DRINKING HABITS

Deciding on good reasons for changing your drinking habits will help you to succeed. What we mean by a ‘good’ reason is one that makes sense to you. Right now, think of some good reasons for changing your habits.
There are dozens of good reasons to change your drinking habits; they will be different for each person. For example,

• You will have more time for things you have always wanted to do.
• You will save a lot of money and be able to spend it on other things you enjoy.
• You will have more energy.
• You will lose weight.
• You will be less likely to have arguments with those around you.
• You will be less likely to develop serious health problems such as liver disease.

Drinking habit ( alcohol taking)

What is drinking habit?  There are several type of Drinking habit, it has good habit, and bad habit as well.

 IF u have the bad drinking habits, likes alcohol taking, u must have been worried about how to overcome it.  Here have some 

Tips and Advice to help you change your drinking habits.

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9 great REASONS to drink water

1. Weight loss
   Water is one of the best tools for weight loss, because it often replaces high-calorie drinks like soda and juice and alcohol with a drink that doesn't have any calories. Water has no fat, no calories, no sugar. Therefore, drink water plenty to help our weight-loss regimen.

2. Heart healthy
   Drinking a good amount of water could lower your risks of a heart attack. A six-year study published in the May 1, 2002 American Journal of Epidemiology found that those who drink more than 5 glasses of water a day were 41% less likely to die from a heart attack during the study period than those who drank less than two glasses.

3. Energy
   Being dehydrated can sap your energy and make you feel tired -- even mild dehydration of as little as 1 or 2 percent of your body weight. If you're thirsty, you're already dehydrated -- and this can lead to fatigue, muscle weakness, dizziness and other symptoms.

4. Headache cure
   Another symptom of dehydration is headaches. In fact, often when we have headaches it's simply a matter of not drinking enough water. There are lots of other causes of headaches of course, but dehydration is a common one.

5. Healthy skin
   Drinking water can clear up your skin and people often report a healthy glow after drinking water. It won't happen overnight, of course, but just a week of drinking a healthy amount of water can have good effects on your skin.

6. Digestive problems
   Our digestive systems need a good amount of water to digest food properly. Often water can help cure stomach acid problems, and water along with fiber can cure constipation (often a result of dehydration).

7. Cleansing
   Water is used by the body to help flush out toxins and waste products from the body.

8. Cancer risk
   Related to the digestive system item above, drinking a healthy amount of water has also been found to reduce the risk of colon cancer by 45%. Drinking lots of water can also reduce the risk of bladder cancer by 50% and potentially reduce the risk of breast cancer.

9. Better exercise
   Being dehydrated can severely hamper your athletic activities, slowing you down and making it harder to lift weights. Exercise requires additional water, so be sure to hydrate before, during and after exercise.

WATER HABIT of children

WATER AND MILK

Children need to drink a lot of fluids through the day to keep their hydration levels up. Children with inadequate fluid intake can be irritable and have difficulty in maintaining mental concentration. Water and milk are the best forms of fluids for children. Milk contains proteins, lactose and minerals (including calcium) that are beneficial for growing children. Milk also contains a high amount of water (approximately 90%) so it is actually good for hydration. Children of 4 to 5 years quite often drink 1 litre of milk per day. Getting children into a good habit of drinking water early is a wise thing. Apart from merely quenching thirst, WATER is the perfect source of hydration and a great way to detoxify their little bodies.

How to form a good water habit?

• How much water?
  This is a debatable question. What's clear is that the old recommendation of "eight 8-ounce glasses a day" isn't right, for several reasons: that amount includes all dietary water intake, including food and non-water beverages; it also ignores a person's body weight, which is an important factor in figuring the amount; it also varies if you are sick or exercise. It's also not good to just drink when you're thirsty -- you're already dehydrated by then. Best is to form a routine: drink a glass when you wake up, a glass with each meal, a glass in between meals, and be sure to drink before, during and after exercise. Try to generally keep yourself from getting thirsty.

• Carry a bottle
    Keep a glass of water and drink from it all day long. When it's empty, fill it up again, and keep drinking.

• Filter
  Instead of spending a fortune on bottled water, invest in a filter for your home faucet. It'll make tap water taste like bottled, at a fraction of the price.

• Exercise
  Exercising can help make you want to drink water more. It's not necessary to drink sports drinks like Gatorade when you exercise, unless you are doing it for more than an hour. Just drink water. If you're going to exercise, be sure to drink water a couple hours ahead of time, so that it will get through your system in time, and again, drink during and after exercise as well.

• Track it
  It often helps, when forming a new habit, to keep track of it -- it increases awareness and helps you ensure that you're staying on track. Keep a little log (it can be done on an index card or a notebook), which can be as simple as a tick mark for each glass of water you drink.

 

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Importance of WATER in cell

1. Maintaining body temperature

•  Water helps distribute heat in the body. Excess heat is then eliminated through perspiration, urination and defaecation. Evaporation of sweat causes loss of body heat and cools the body surface.

2. Providing support 

• Water supports the structure of cell because 90% of the protoplasm is made up of water.

3. Transport medium

• Blood plasma is about 90% water. It contains many biological molecules such as sugars, amino acids and also respiratory gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide) which dissolve in water.
• These substances are then transported from one part of the body to another. Waste products such as urea are excreted from the body in the urine.

4. Maintaining osmotic balance and turgidity

•  In animals, the concentration of dissolved inorganic salts in water is important in maintaining the osmotic balance between the blood and interstitial fluid.
• In plants, the cell sap in the vacuole contains water and dissolved substances. A high osmotic concentration in plant cells encourages water to enter the cells. This causes the cells to be turgid. Turgidity provides support in plants.

5. Medium for biochemical reactions

• Most of the biochemical reactions can only occur when there is water.
• Water is involved in the breaking down of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates in the food we eat. 
• Enzymatic reactions also require water.