BeamUp

26/09/2023

It’s easy to get discouraged by everything happening in the world. Make time for kindness and connection today. ❤️

23/09/2023

A shift to a plant-based diet rich in pulses, nuts, fruits, and vegetables could lead to a substantial reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. 🌎

Eating 75 grams of beef—a typical fast-food hamburger—daily for a year creates pollution equivalent to driving a car 7,196 miles. Comparatively, 150 grams of beans—about a third of a can—daily for a year is equivalent to driving a car only 93 miles.

Obviously, jumping straight to cutting out meat entirely would be extreme for many. But every little bit helps. 🌳

Would you consider swapping beef for beans one or two nights a week?

Learn more about how our diets affect climate change 👉 https://hubs.la/Q0239Y6W0

A plant-based diet can have a significant positive impact on the environment and your health.

13/09/2023

Almost 19 million people in the United States live in a food desert.

A food desert is an urban area where you have to travel more than 1 mile to find a grocery store that sells healthy food. Low-income areas are disproportionately affected.

A lack of affordable, healthy food means that families often default to cheap, accessible options like fast food, leading to increased childhood obesity. These children can develop health problems that will be with them for the rest of their lives.

So how do we break the cycle? 🥦🌽🥕

👉 https://hubs.ly/Q0221qyl0

Adults and children in wealthy nations and communities frequently struggle with being overweight or obese, most often for reasons they can change or mitigate, such as living a sedentary lifestyle or being too busy to cook or eat healthy meals. However, child obesity in low-income nations and neighbo...

29/08/2023

Despite most orphanages existing in the highest-income countries in the world, they are “universally recognized as providing suboptimal caregiving environments”.

Only 50% of American foster children graduate from high school, and only 3% graduate from a 4-year college. They’re also more likely to enter the criminal justice system and have poor cognitive performance.

So what causes this cycle of inequity, and what can you do to help?

https://hubs.la/Q020sL7q0

Orphanages and foster care cause delays in childhood development and lifelong inequity in adulthood.

16/08/2023

The American education system is one of the most unequal in the industrialized world. But this didn’t happen overnight.

In a system that prioritizes, well, systemization, students that need more time to bridge reading gaps get left behind. And unfortunately, federal funding just hasn’t kept up to provide the additional resources that they need to catch up to their peers.

Children that grow up in lower socioeconomic classes are suffering from even larger learning losses. And this discrepancy only continues to grow as they age, contributing to a generational cycle.

BeamUp strives to create opportunities for children in poverty through education. To learn more about our mission or make a donation towards education, visit our website 👉 https://www.beamup.charity

09/08/2023

Don’t want to cut out beef completely? No problem! Even substituting beans once a week could make a huge difference to the health of our planet. 🌎

57% of global greenhouse gas emissions from food production come from meat and dairy products.

The methane emissions of five of the largest meat corporations and 10 of the largest dairy corporations—which include JBS, Tyson, and the Dairy Farmers of America—is equal to over 80% of the European Union’s entire methane footprint. Wow!

By decreasing demand, we can decrease these emissions. Every small change counts 🌱❤️

Follow us or visit our website to learn how you can drive change: https://hubs.la/Q01-tzxv0

04/08/2023

Every child deserves high-quality healthcare but many families face barriers – especially in underserved communities.

Telemedicine provides a practical solution for equitable access to essential healthcare services and health education. 🏥📲

Together, we can bridge the gap and prioritize the health of our children.

Read more on our blog 📖

Children in medical deserts face greater barriers to healthcare services. Telemedicine is bridging that gap.

26/07/2023

Cooking with the seasons is a great way to keep money in your wallet and nutrients in your food. ☀️

It also gives you automatic variety, breaking away from the monotony that industrial agriculture economy made the default.

So we’re issuing a challenge: when you prepare food this week, try to use one in-season ingredient.

Who’s in? 🥕🫛 🫑

If you live in the US, visit https://hubs.la/Q01Z0PMD0 to find out what’s in season in your state!

21/07/2023

American Indian and Alaska Native communities face significant challenges in accessing quality mental healthcare due to historical and ongoing traumas, socioeconomic disparities, and rural locations.

More than 100,000 American Indians and Alaska Natives in the US live in healthcare deserts.

These populations also experience serious psychological distress at 2.5 times more than the general population. If uninterrupted, this generational trauma will continue.

Telemedicine is helping bridge these gaps by overcoming geographical barriers, providing culturally sensitive care, increasing privacy and confidentiality, and more.

Telemedicine is providing Native Americans living in healthcare deserts with access to mental healthcare resources and culturally sensitive care.

07/07/2023

Children can learn the basics of coding as early as age four.

Learning to code boosts kids’ problem-solving capabilities, confidence, creativity, and communication skills—and, as Minecraft players will tell you, it’s fun!

Here are three ways you can help your kids get started and other benefits that coding offers to growing minds 👉 www.beamup.charity/post/coding-for-kids

Scrimba

18/02/2023

What you choose to put in your body can affect your health from a young age. However, there's a lot of conflicting information about what is and isn't healthy.

In his book, “In Defense of Food,” Michael Pollan points out that even some of the most “natural” foods we see on the shelves are less a product of nature and more a product of food science. 👩‍🔬

“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food," he says. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, ‘What are those things doing there?’"

Healthy eating leads to a healthier life – it's that simple. ☀️

Learn more about making healthy choices for you and your family on our blog 👉 http://ow.ly/gEz750MW3RJ