How small changes in food choice can make BIG everyday differences

Stefanie Sacks |  Mar 2015

2024년 4월 15일 shadowing 완료

 

 

 

TED Talker/연자

Stefanie Sacks
American Nutritionist

Author of What The Fork Are You Eating

Consultant and founder of REBOOT FOOD™

Thank you a labor of love and pain. um while making healthy choices and cooking may be a burden to many it's evidently my way of life and it's my kids way of life and it's a brilliant time for us to connect and share everything that you just saw on this video is possible and each and every activity is fertile ground for an essential edible conversation one that  is not happening in most homes in this country today but actually needs to happen if we're going to get healthy and  stay healthy.

 

I'm like everybody else I deal with a six-year-old who love sugar you saw my negotiation with him he wanted the soda he then he wanted the fruit in sugar water and then he wanted the juice but I'm a realist not an idealist and so I bought him the better for you alternative soda that had natural flavors and a little sugar and we made lemonade at home so I'm going to ask you all for something uh which may seem a little lofty But please understand that small changes in food Choice can and will make big everyday differences small changes so please start to question the
foods you choose for you and your loved ones.

 

I'm going to make it really simple so it's three things make Health your bottom line commit to change and start to get an edible education everybody has to start somewhere but before I get into the details of that I want to talk to
you about values this is a Mercedes an expensive car you put the highest quality gas in this car right most expensive gas in this car well this is a human being the single most precious thing in the world in fact Priceless yet this is the type of fuel we are giving the human body to make it run many years ago I was at my son's hockey game my older son's hockey game and I watched a woman screaming 18-month-old child pour red Gatorade into his
bottle red Gatorade has Red Dye number 40 it's proven to cause hyperactivity in already hyperactive children it had GMO ingredients tons of sugar artificial flavors I was Furious I felt like I was jumping out of my body but then I became really sad as I realized that likely she didn't know any better and for every one of you thinking I'd never eat
this I wouldn't give my kids stuff like this there are hundreds if not thousands of people who do so why has food Choice come to this in this country?

 

There are barriers I see them every day in my practice working oneon-one whether I'm teaching large groups we're all crunched for for time hey I work full-time I've got two kids who need me all the time so I know what it's like and food access it's a challenge for many for some it's like live in a food desert people without money to even people with money it doesn't matter you can live in a food desert with or without money and finding sometimes a grocery store that's not within walking distance or comfortable driving distance is too much for people and cost healthy eating costs more I'll go back to what Deb said we need healthy food and it actually  doesn't cost more more on that in a little bit and confusion how could you not be confused this is my big one you've got a food industry that's duping you every day and you're buying into it you got a government whose regulations on our food system are subpar and you have credible health professionals on morning shows talking about healthy breakfasts including a peanut butter filled with trans fats and tons of sugar so guess what we got to start to understand that our health is nobody's bottom line but ours so we have to make it that do these barriers actually exist time cost access confusion.

 

You know for over 15 years now I have been working with people oneon-one in in groups people from low-income communities to financiers to celebrities and everybody comes to me to prevent or manage illness I work with people with allergies cancer gastrointestinal issues I see it all and everyone wants to change the way they eat to support their health and after cooking with them talking to them about food taking them shopping teaching them how to navigate food everyone starts to break down these barriers so how can you do the same have it planning a little bit this is um my six-year-old shopping list you can see marshmallows are at the top um he's always trying for the sugar if he could have jelly beans for breakfast he would but he has me as his mom so I don't let him it's this shopping list that drives nourishment in our house weekly so do you have time to plan for for meetings doctor's appointments have tea schedule lunch if you have time for that you have time to plan for nourishment it doesn't take that long sit down write a shopping list write a quick menu for the week figure out when you're going to shop figure out when you're going to cook it's all possible.

 

You know a couple weeks ago Robin O'Brien one of my favorite food Crusaders tweeted if we don't plan for eating healthfully then we better plan for illness it doesn't get more true than that I see it every day there are options for those who complain that they don't have access to food do you know you can order food  online Amazon True Foods boxed Abes Market go to local harvest.org you can find a food co-op you can find a CSA it's pretty accessible Farmstand app a great app that you can download onto your phone and find a Farm Stand or farmers market in your area so I don't buy in to access all the time and Ruthie Solari is a friend of mine who has this organization superfood drive and they drive Health towards Hunger Hunger relief to food banks and pantries.

 

We had this conversation about healthy eating and costing too much and she sent me this and and look highly processed oatmeal is more expensive than just rolled oats a pasta mix is more expensive than a whole wheat pasta and a canned Whatchamacallit beef is more expensive than tuna and if you ever heard of good and cheap it's one of my favorite new books eat well and $4 a day that's a food stamp budget. Leanne Brown, an NYU  student brilliant so guess what health can actually be your bottom line it just takes a little bit of navigating and
please become a skeptical shopper this is the drive behind all of my work question the foods you choose don't
believe the banners on the boxes turn your box around if your ingredient list reads like a short novel if there's something you can't pronounce don't buy it that's a great start and now of course we have environmental working groups Food Scores database which is brilliant nutrition ingredient and processing concerns you can zap in the barcode of your food and learn about it so if you can grasp any of that then you can make Health your bottom line you can commit to change and you can start to get an edible education.

 

So a little bit on where the rubber meets the road in my work this is the pantry fridge freeer rehab I go into people's homes as part of my work for those of you who are at home I urge you to go to your pantry turn boxes around see do you have red dye number 40 yellow yellow dye number five yellow dye number six do you have trans fats do you have artificial flavors do you have names that you can't pronounce typically chemical preservatives if so always know there's a better alternative for every average Choice it's it's possible and then the meal rehab this is me cooking with 30 people 30 minutes two meals at food is medicine this great conference that I get to be a part of each year a woman came up to me at the end of this hysterically crying and I'm not joking she was hysterical and she said Stephanie I never knew that cooking and eating healthfully was so simple you  have broken damn barriers from me in my home and I'm going to start to to teach my patients how to do this how to nourish themselves thank you so you know what give the kitchen a shot it's not going to kill you in fact it could help you two hours a day one day a week you can put together soups stews and then complement them during the week with a vegetable and a grain nutritious can always meet delicious

 

So everyone has to start somewhere and a little bit on where I started this is me at 3 in my wooden play kitchen I suffered a lot with  illness as a kid back in the 70s and uh into the 80s I had terrible asthma allergies recurring bronchitis pneumonia and doctors kept drugging me and I kept getting sicker so I turned to my inner cook and I picked up food and healing by anarie Colin and I started to heal actually by feeding myself and nourishing myself and learning about the food system in the 80s I was 15 I went on to the Natural Gourmet natural gourmet Institute for health and culinary arts and then to get my Ms in nutrition at Columbia University and it's because of this path that I'm here  today speaking to all of you and I have  the great honor of being invited into so many so many people's lives to help them make a difference in their health and that is such a gift so if you can't find your inner cook because some people don't have one please find your inner action hero Wonder Woman is mine I just
love her uh because you can make Health your bottom line you can commit to change and you can start to get an edible education please know small changes let's not talk big small changes in your food Choice can make very big lasting changes for you and your loved ones thank you.

 

 

Words&phrases/어휘공부

• lofty:  If you have a lofty way of behaving or talking, etc., you act as if you think you are better than other people:
  a lofty attitude/air/tone
• Red Dye 40:  a synthetic food dye common in dairy products, sweets, and beverages
• dupe:  to deceive someone, usually by making that person do something that they did not intend to do. The girls were duped by drug smugglers into carrying heroin for them. 
• subpar : worse than the usual or expected standard. The customer service in the hotel was distinctly subpar.
• zap: To zap something is also to cook or heat it in a microwave. Do you want that meatloaf cold, or should I zap it? to move something quickly. You can zap files straight to the printer from a PDA or laptop.
• where the rubber meets the road: the most important point for something, the moment of truth After months of planning, it's finally time to see where the rubber meets the road.