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HEADLINES IN BAKERY & DELI & RETAIL
FMI Joins Family Day Campaign
The Food Marketing Institute Foundation is joining forces with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University to celebrate Family Day – A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children. FMI’s supermarket retailer and wholesaler members nationwide will launch initiatives to share with America’s families the importance of eating meals together. Launched by CASA Columbia in 2001, Family Day is a national movement encouraging parents to frequently eat dinner with their kids and be involved in their children’s lives. CASA Columbia’s research consistently finds that the more often kids eat dinner with their families; the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs. Those kids are also more likely to make better grades in school and to say they have an excellent relationship with their parents and they are less likely to have friends who smoke, drink or use drugs. “The supermarket industry supports this important focus on bringing families together around the dinner table,” said Leslie Sarasin, president and chief executive officer of FMI and president of the FMI Foundation. “Families engaged in sharing a meal together reap the benefits of shared lives and shared support; and if they make half their plates fruits and vegetables, shared nutritional advantages. We encourage parents to take the Family Day Pledge at www.CASAFamilyDay.org.”
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