It appears that not only the well known healthy food chefs like Ellie Krieger (registered dietitian and host of a hit show, “Healthy Appetite,” on Food Network) are concerned with providing the public with the knowledge and education on how to live a healthy, balanced life. Highlighted in a recent article in USAToday: Celebrity chefs lead the charge for healthier food more and more famous chefs are not only concerned with cooking good food but they are paying more attention to making sure the public are eating better.
Several Famous Chefs such as Food Network Stars Rachel Ray and Paula Dean are trying change the way society looks at food and nutrition. For example Rachel Ray is partnering with the Department of Education in NYC to help develop healthy recipes for children’s lunches. She is hoping by helping to create healthy recipes they can help to reduce childhood obesity. For example she pioneered her program with healthy recipes like her Southwest roasted chicken and soft tacos.
For more details on Rachel Ray and her initiative NYC Schools you can preview a video highlighted by NY1 News: Rachel Ray To Aid City’s Healthy School Lunch Program
At the recent South Beach Festival in Miami, Rachel Ray and Paul Deen worked together and offered a program where families spent the day learning about nutrition and how to cook healthy food. They are working together to help families understand it’s about eating real well balanced foods.
“It’s far better to eat a balanced diet of full-fat whole foods than it is to eat no-fat, low-fat or fake foods where they’ve replaced fat with fillers and stuff like that,” says Ray. “And I think that one of the benefits of eating a balanced diet is that you can eat some of the things that are not so figure-friendly some of the time,” says Ray
There’s even a new magazine specifically for kids aged 5-12 and their families called ChopChop. It’s a quarterly food magazine and also a website. This magazine’s goal is to help educate kids on nutrition and to help encourage them to cook with their families to help to develop better eating habits not only for now but for their lifetime.
Hopefully through the help of not only these famous chefs but others we can continue to help educate children, parents and others on the importance of nutrition and living a long, healthy life.