July 31, 2006

BBC NEWS | Americas | Refugees taught how to eat American food

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BBC NEWS | Americas | Refugees taught how to eat American food: “This workshop on how to eat American food responsibly is part of an Illinois state-funded programme to improve the nutrition of refugees who are being re-settled in the land of plenty.

‘First we are most concerned about whether they will understand how to eat American food,’ says Shana Willis, with the non-profit refugee resettlement agency Heartland, one of the project co-ordinators.

‘They did not only not understand how to eat American food, but they went immediately to the junk food and it was then that we realised, this is going to have a much more important impact than we anticipated.’”

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  1. Now someone just needs to teach Americans not to go immediately to the junk food.

    Comment by OrangeBeard — July 31, 2006 @ 9:03 pm

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