Sustainable Saratoga Serves Up Popcorn and a Movie on Local and Global Nutrition Issues at its

“You are what you eat.”

While similar phrases title European works as early as the 1800s, nutritionist Victor Lindlahr is credited with introducing it throughout the U.S. with the publication of “You Are What You Eat: how to win and keep health with diet” in 1942. No doubt Lindlhar would cringe at the content of much of the current American diet and what it says about who we are and how we’re doing, both individually and as a nation. To assess where we are today and to offer some thought-provoking opinions on the world-wide status of food and health, film-makers and natural food advocates James Coloquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch spoke with a spectrum of food authorities, medical doctors, scientists, natural healers and others in the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Australia and the Netherlands to create their global documentary “FoodMatters.”

The 80-minute film will be screened at Empire State College, 113 West Ave., Room 143 on Tuesday evening, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. by Sustainable Saratoga’s Farming and Open Space committee. The program will begin at 7 p.m. with an introduction by Suzanne Carreker-Voigt, coordinator of the Saratoga Farmers’ Market. The local-producer-only venue at High Rock Pavilions in Saratoga Springs was recently voted the number one market of its size in the State of New York, and prides itself on offering locally produced goods from Saratoga and nearby Schenectady, Rensselaer and Washington counties. In addition to her introduction, she will be providing attendees with locally grown and healthily air-popped popcorn to enjoy during the movie.

Sustainable Saratoga co-chair Celeste Caruso said “From raw-foods expert David Wolfe, and Charlotte Gerson, who founded the Gerson Institute to promote healing and prevent chronic diseases; to Dr. Ian Brighthope, president of the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, “FoodMatters” offers an eye-opening array of perspectives – as well as some concrete, if controversial, steps that can be taken to improve both our food system and our health.” Caruso and her Sustainable Saratoga co-chair Jim Zack encourage anyone with an interest in food issues or improving health through nutrition to join Sustainable Saratoga members for the free screening of “FoodMatters” at Empire State College on Tuesday night.

Through a variety of committees and public programs, Sustainable Saratoga provides a forum for local citizens on the environmental, social and economic efforts we can undertake in our own community to benefit both current and future citizens of Saratoga Springs and surrounding communities. (“Acting locally” while “thinking globally”.) We are an all-volunteer non-profit organization formed in November 2008, and represent a broad cross-section of area residents, all committed to encouraging efforts to improve the quality of life in Saratoga area while conserving the vitality and diversity of regional resources.