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15 The topic: “Food on Europe’s Tables”
n France, we examined not only families, have on the food industry?
I the importance of healthy eat- Can we make a difference? How?
ing, diets, nutritional values, but
also the diseases caused by bad eat- This aspect of the topic caused us
ing habits. Some students prepared to think and discuss a lot, and one
workshops for the Erasmus+-group, thing has become clear: there must
helping them analyse the influence be a change, we are forced to take
of eating habits on our health. What new paths in order to live healthy
we found here was new ways of lives.
thinking, which can positively in-
fluence our life habits. Last but not least, in Portugal we
were dealing with food from a po-
At the third meeting in Sweden we litical point of view. Does the Euro-
were looking at the bigger picture as pean Union really have that much
to solutions to how to eat and live influence on our food consumption
more healthily. We looked at the and our way of life? Are we “united
food industries and the different in diversity” regarding food, too?
agricultural sectors in our coun- Where do we need to, and are able
tries. What impact do they make on to, take action so that future gener-
us, and what influence do we, the ations can lead healthy lives? What
standard young consumers, and our is our responsibility?
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