While speaking at one of Hillsborough Community College's Hospitality program classes last week, I found out about this program called Meatless Monday. This is a national public health campaign and non-profit organization working in association with the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health dedicated to helping prevent the four leading causes of death in the U.S.- heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer.
How are they trying to combat these diseases, you ask? By asking Americans to cut out meat (beef, poultry, and pork) and high-fat dairy just one day a week, thus limiting their weekly intake of saturated fat and preventing those diseases. Their goal is to reduce Americans' consumption of saturated fat by 15% by next year, which could be done by cutting it out just one day a week.
