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Food Fix Learning Syllabus

Time to complete: 10 minutes

1. Welcome to the Food Fix Video Initiative! (1:05)

The Food Fix Campaign is non-profit 501(c)(3) education and advocacy organization committed to fighting America’s chronic disease epidemic. More than 9-in-10 Americans are metabolically unhealthy, and 6-in-10 U.S. adults have a chronic disease, such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Fortunately, there is a fix, and it’s one that can restore health, improve farm profitability, and strengthen our nation’s future.

2. How Does Our Food System Cause Chronic Disease? (0:57)

Our current food system subsidizes the production of ultra-processed, low (or no) nutrition foods that are harming our health. By fixing our food system, we can dramatically expand access to nutritious foods that will restore our health, make farms and ranches for profitable and save taxpayers billions of dollars.

3. We Can Rebuild Our Food System (0:44)

Ultra-processing takes key nutrients out of the food we eat, resulting in a chronic disease epidemic that is now the #1 killer of Americans and an enormous drain on our nation’s economy. A food fix is possible that will help to expand Americans’ access to nutrient-dense food.

4. What is “Food As Medicine”? (1:07)

Food As Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical model that deploys the nutrient power of fruits, vegetables, grains, and meats to restore health and fight disease. Simply put, proper nutrition helps prevent, manage, and cure many chronic diseases, improves long-term wellness, reduces health care costs and generates savings for healthcare programs and taxpayers.

5. Healthy Food = Healthy People! (0:58)

Our nation’s diet consists of low-nutrient and often contaminated foods that are making people sicker, while placing an enormous burden on taxpayers and the healthcare system. With a food fix, America’s food system can produce more nutritious foods that will improve our health, make U.S. farms and ranches more profitable, and provide substantial savings for the future.

6. What Is the Solution? We’re Standing on It! (1:03)

Healthy topsoil prevents erosion, sequesters carbon and produces nutrient-dense foods at a lower cost than conventional agricultural practices. It enables farmers and ranchers to produce healthier food and become more profitable, it gives consumers the nutrition they need to be healthy, and it reduces the cost burden currently borne by taxpayers and our economy.

7. What Are Cover Crops? (0:49)

“Cover crops” are a broad array of plants that farmers and ranchers use to build and maintain the soil’s nutrient density with organic matter, which results in more nutritious plant and meat products, reduce the need for costly chemicals by naturally combatting weeds and pests, and reduce losses due to flooding by improving the soil’s water retention. All of this makes farms and ranches more productive, less costly, and more profitable.

8. How Does Regenerative Agriculture Help Farmers? (0:36)

Regenerative agriculture can restore America’s farms and ranches to profitability by sustainably increasing output, reducing operating costs, and surviving droughts, floods, and pests to a greater degree than conventional methods.

9. The Economic Argument for Regenerative Agriculture (0:50)

Regenerative and organic agriculture enables farmers and ranchers to earn up to six times more profit then those using costly conventional methods, reduce their use of expensive energy by up to 45 percent, and increase the biodiversity of their farms and ranches tenfold.

10. Debunking the Scalability Myth (1:22)

Regenerative agriculture is the only way to continue to scale to the world’s growing need for food. Regenerative methods consistently deliver greater yields than conventional agriculture, are more resilient in times of drought, flooding and pests, costs less and earn more profit than conventional agriculture. Regenerative agriculture will help us fix the broken food system.

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Food Fix Learning Syllabus