{"id":12742,"date":"2018-10-24T13:47:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/?p=12742"},"modified":"2018-10-24T13:47:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:47:50","slug":"today-is-national-food-day-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/2018\/10\/24\/today-is-national-food-day-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is National Food Day! Really!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Food Day is observed annually on October 24. One of the targets that Food Day aims to help people is to \u201cEat Real,\u201d which is defined by them as \u201ccutting back on sugar drinks, overly salted packaged foods and fatty, factory-farmed meats in favor of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and sustainably raised protein.\u201d \u00a0National Food Day involves some of the country\u2019s most prominent food activists, united by a vision of food that can be healthy, affordable and produced with care for the environment, farm animals and the people who grow, harvest and serve it.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, there were 3,200 events taking place from community festivals to a national conference in Washington, D.C. to thousands of school activities.<\/p>\n<p><b>HOW TO OBSERVE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy some of your favorite healthy foods and use #NationalFoodDay to post on social media.<\/p>\n<p><b>HISTORY<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) initiated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodday.org\/splash_page?splash=1\">National Food Day<\/a> 2011. It is a nationwide celebration of healthy, affordable and sustainably produced food and a grassroots campaign for better food policies. \u00a0This project builds throughout the year and culminates on October 24 of each year. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Food Day is observed annually on October 24. One of the targets that Food Day aims to help people is to \u201cEat Real,\u201d which is defined by them as \u201ccutting back on sugar drinks, overly salted packaged foods and fatty, factory-farmed meats in favor of vegetables, fruits, whole grains and sustainably raised protein.\u201d \u00a0National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,124,137,143,115],"tags":[157,129,130,148,146,126],"class_list":["post-12742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-nutrition","category-self-care","category-wellness","tag-diet","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-self-care","tag-weight-loss","tag-wellness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/food-day.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12747,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742\/revisions\/12747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}