Campaign encourages residents and families to eat veggies three times a day.
The Rapides Foundation is partnering with The Public Good Projects to kick off the #VegTogether media campaign to encourage Central Louisiana consumers to eat vegetables at least three times a day.
The #VegTogether campaign is being launched by the Foundation in Central Louisiana, and also serves as a project of A Healthy America, a national movement using prevention and the power of the media to solve our nation’s greatest health problems. A Healthy America is led by The Public Good Projects, a nonprofit organization of media, marketing, and public health experts.
Look for veggie reminders in the grocery store.
The Rapides Foundation is a grantmaking organization with the mission to improve the health status of Central Louisiana. The local #VegTogether campaign is funded by The Rapides Foundation as part of its Healthy Behaviors Initiative, which addresses important health behaviors including healthy eating, physical activity, tobacco use prevention and control, and substance/alcohol abuse prevention in order to promote health and prevent chronic disease.
The #VegTogether message to encourage consumers to include vegetables in more meals can be seen on broadcast and cable television, traditional and Internet radio, newspaper inserts, online, social media platforms, and in grocery stores. The #VegTogether website will include videos, vegetable prep tips, and health facts related to vegetable consumption.
Find veggie prep tips and more at www.vegtogether.org.
“The Foundation’s Healthy Behaviors Initiative includes a focus on eating nutritionally balanced food because we understand how development of healthier behaviors can prevent illness and premature death,” said Joe Rosier, President and CEO of The Rapides Foundation. “Our partnership with The Public Good Projects to develop the #VegTogether campaign provides an important tool in helping people move to a healthier lifestyle.”
In the United States, the leading causes of death are heart disease, stroke and cancer - all diseases that eating more vegetables may prevent. Rates of heart disease, stroke and cancer are higher in Louisiana than in the United States as a whole.
Find veggie prep tips at www.vegtogether.org.
More than four in five Americans do not eat enough vegetables, making vegetables the most under-consumed of all recommended foods. In The Rapides Foundation’s nine-parish Central Louisiana service area, only 30 percent of adults eat three or more servings of vegetables a day according to the Foundation’s 2013 Community Health Assessment.
"Consumers are overwhelmed by the marketing of junk food," said Ruth Wooden, CEO of The Public Good Projects. "#VegTogether will use the marketing tactics proven effective by big brand food marketers to counter their efforts by promoting a healthy diet through the mass media."
TV ads encourage people to eat veggies three times a day.
Development of the #VegTogether campaign included feedback and collaboration from an Advisory Group made up of state and regional health organizations and community partners including: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation; Food Bank of Central La.; Fresh Central; Keller Enterprises; LSU Ag Center; Market Umbrella; Office of Public Health, Region VI; Pennington Biomedical Research Center; and Southern Ag Center.
To learn about the #VegTogether campaign, see the videos and download veggie prep tips, visit
www.VegTogether.org. The campaign will run for approximately three months and The Public Good Projects intends to evaluate the effectiveness of the campaign with surveys of adults in the region.
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