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Eat Your Colors
There's a new way to eat your fruits and vegetables! A simple method to get the right type of nutrients without having to look at a nutrition label, which is good since most fruits and vegetables in your supermarket don't have them. Click on the "Eat Your Colors" page for more information.
The mission of the Hawai`i 5 A Day for Better Health Program is to increase the awareness of the importance of eating fruits and vegetables, among all the people of Hawai`i, resulting in the consumption of five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day.
Get a 5 A Day screen saver created by Dr. William Harris, President of the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii and a Hawaii 5 A Day Coalition member. Just click on "Screen Saver" on left hand side of this page.
Mission Statement
5 A Day Screen Saver
Aloun Farms
American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific, Inc.
Castle Center for Health Promotion
Defense Logistic, DSCP-Pacific Region, Hawaii Buying Office
Dole Food Company Hawaii
Down to Earth Natural Foods
Hawaii Department of Education
Hawaii Department of Health
Hawaii Department of Agriculture
Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation
HMSA
Honolulu Advertiser
HPC Foods, Ltd.
Just Add Water
Times Supermarkets
University of Hawaii, Cancer Research Center, Cancer Information Services
University of Hawaii, Cooperative Extension Office
USDA, Food & Nutrition Service, Honolulu Field Office
Vegetarian Society of Hawaii
Developed by the Minnesota Department of Health, this award winning web site is a great resource of information to develop programs for healthy living in elementary schools and in our communities.
Click on link in left hand column.
Fitness Fever
Dole Food Company is committed to the nutrition education of our children. Visit their web site for great ideas on creating a 5 A Day curriculum and making it fun for any classroom!
Go to http://dole5aday.com or click on the link in the left-hand column.
The Hawai`i 5 A Day Coalition is currently planning for upcoming events and if your organization would like to participate, please contact us by email down below.
Coalition Plans
Nutrition Week reports that the average consumption of vegetables and fruits in the US was 741 pounds per person annually during 1997-99. Vegetable consumption increased more rapidly than fruit, rising 24 percent over this period, compared with 8 percent for fruit. Unfortunately, processed potatoes in the form of French fries account for much of this increase. Bananas are the number one pick in fresh fruit. Apples are consumed at an increasing rate, the consumption of oranges has declined.
While all of this is encouraging to some degree,, Americans are still not eating the suggested minimum five servings a day.
According to the 1994-96 Continuing Survey of Food Intake of Individuals, conducted by the USDA, only 23 percent of Americans consumed five servings of fruit and 41 percent servings of vegetables.
March is both National Nutrition Month and National School Breakfast Month.
Mahalo
We are indebted to the American Cancer Society for allowing us to use its well-equipped and comfortable conference room in cool Nu`uanu for our meetings. Mahalo a nui loa.
