Promoting a healthier lifestyle

REGINA- October 16^th is World Food Day, a day all about promoting a healthier lifestyle.

“Eating healthy foods with your peers, and your teachers as role models, really goes a long way for kids,” said Helen Flengeris, a Public Health nutritionist.

To mark world food day, students at St. Augustine Community School learned where food comes from.

“Nutrition is really important but also local food and community gardens; bringing that all together, so children understand that carrots don’t just come from a grocery store. They actually come from the garden,” said Dana Folkerson, executive director of REACH.

There’s no place more local, than the Farmer’s Market.

It’s clear, Reginans feel fresh is best.  The market had a record breaking year with both vendors, and customers.

“There’s more of a demand for local grown food these days. I think there’s a bigger wave of people that are getting it and tasting the difference,” said Hayley Lawford, a local vegetable vendor.

That better flavor is being delivered to more mouths than ever before. The farmer’s market will start setting up shop at the University of Regina.

“It just exposes students to the fact that there are more than the big box grocery stores, coffee chains, and exposes them to the variety of life,” said Carol Reyda, University of Regina.

It’s getting those notoriously bad eaters like university students eating better because it will have other benefits down the road.

“We hope that it’ll change student’s eating habits, and having the farmers market coming is great for the health of the students,” said Reyda.

She hopes students in elementary schools learn from an early age, to eat locally.