2010 Chefs’ Dinner tickets are now available. This gala event features a five-course meal prepared by distinguished local chefs and a unique silent auction. Chefs’ Dinner proceeds benefit Second Harvest’s Food For Children program which provides healthy items for 12,000 people each month.
Purchase tickets here.
Last week, Alice Park published a story in Time magazine about the long-term effects of childhood hunger. Researchers tracked health outcomes for a cohort of children from birth to 21 years of age.
When controlling for a variety of factors, researchers found that even one episode of hunger caused a child to be more than twice as likely to be in poor health as much as 15 years later than those who never went hungry. This result is particularly disconcerting in light of the increased need brought on by the economic downturn. With 15% of Americans, or over 45 million people living at the edge of hunger, we are now raising a lot more children who will later experience significant health problems in the future because of the hunger they experience now.
Studies like these show that it is important to invest in our national food and nutrition assistance programs and also why we must continue to work on this problem at the local level with programs like Food For Children. For more information about the Food For Children program, click here.
To coincide with the availability of 10th-anniversary chefs’ dinner tickets, the chefs themselves bring you this video.