Achieving A Healthier Community
The Five Step Plan to a Healthier Community
Create Demand for Healthy Food
Add Methods For Eating Healthy
Lowering the Price of Healthy Foods
Utilizing Food Trucks
- Demand can be created by getting people motivated to eat healthy. Food markets that are just opening could have days where they give free cooking classes to the public and giving out samples and educating the public about the health benefits of healthy eating.
- Make healthy options more accessible and affordable.
Add Methods For Eating Healthy
- As the market for healthy food grows there will be room for other healthy food venues to be created. More stores can offer healthy food, restaurants offering healthy food have people who want their food, and farmers markets and community gardens can be created.
Lowering the Price of Healthy Foods
- As other ways for people to eat healthy are created, prices will drop so people will buy their food. The competition will create a viable and more stable market and prevent monopolies from forming.
Utilizing Food Trucks
- Food trucks offering healthy options could be useful to areas living in a food desert where there would otherwise be no healthy, accessible, forms of healthy food. In PG county a man, Baruch Ben-Yehudah, has a vegan food truck that he drives around low income neighborhoods. If food trucks serving healthy food became common people would be able to have healthy food brought right to their doors and healthy food trucks would be an employment opportunity for anyone who knows how to cook healthy food.