Advocacy Project Topic in Planning

My advocacy project group met today after class in order to narrow down our advocacy project topic. Initially, we had tossed around the idea of putting together a Fun Run/Walk for kids that would provide healthy snacks for participants, along with display tables that would promote healthy lifestyles at a young age. However, we realized that this would be a pretty large undertaking for only four students without a means of providing funds for this event. We thought about getting sponsors for such an event, but then decided that it would be difficult to get everything together by April. Instead, we have decided to sponsor an on campus lecture in which a panel of speakers in nutrition and health fields will discuss the fallacies of junk food advertisements and how we can advocate healthy lifestyles/eating in a more appealing manner. We still have some specifics to nail down, like who in particular we plan to ask to be on the panel, when/where it will take place, etc. However, we are excited about the event that we are advocating and hope that with the necessary planning and publicity it will be successful in raising students' awareness of the importance of healthy eating.

As always, thanks for reading, and if you have any suggestions for health/nutrition professionals who we could invite, please let me know. :)

Have a wonderful afternoon!