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By teaching children where their food comes from and how it's produced, and by emphasizing local and seasonal eating, we get kids invested in their food choices. "FoodPrints" is a take-off on "carbon footprint". Through the FoodPrints program, children learn about the impact their choices make on their personal health and the health of our planet. Using project-based learning and hands-on experiences with gardening and cooking, we empower children to lead healthy lives and to be stewards of the environment.

The United States doesn't have the highest obesity rate in the Americas (that dubious honor goes to Mexico), but over one-third of US adults are currently obese, and that number isn't dropping. It's a pretty eye-opening statistic, especially when compared with data from countries like Japan and India, where obesity rates fall below five percent.