In today's epsiode I interview Alex Trivas, who created a matching card game called "The Food Monsters" to help children and parents learn about different food additives. A writer, parent, and nutritional advocate, Alex spent over 20 years in the classroom and over 8 years on the board of Get Lit: Words Ignite ( a L.A. based teen literacy and spoken word organization that serves teenagers ) where he saw first hand the relentless sugar and additive assault on our children. To combat this nutritional assault, he began to dig deep and study nutrition.
He led numerous nutritional committees at schools, aiming to curb the quantity of sugar and additive laden foods as well as to help parents and children make better decisions. Recently he co-produced with Matthew McConaughey’s foundation, Just Keep Livin’, a spoken word evening in Los Angeles dedicated to poetry about Type II diabetes, sugar, obesity, and teenagers.
Alex received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania , his M.S.Ed. from Johns Hopkins in Education and Curriculum, and was a Klingenstein summer fellow at Columbia University.
Website: https://thefoodmonsters.com/
From The Food Monsters About Us page:
We are parents who have had enough. We are tired of the seemingly endless school events, parties, and celebrations that call for sugary poison and artificial dyes. We’re tired of how so many people, no matter how well -meaning, conflate sugary junk foods with love. And we are tired of the insane amount of fake foods that go into our foods and drinks. We created Food Monsters to teach kids and families and anybody else interested in the often secretive and confusing ingredients that plague so much of our foods. We want you all to learn about the Food Monsters by playing our awesome and fun Memory Match Game, and then we hope you go out and buy foods that do NOT contain The Food Monsters.
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