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By EatingWell September/October 2008

Give guilt-free chocolate. This holiday season give Fair Trade chocolate to raise awareness about abusive child labor, low prices for farmers and other problems in the cocoa industry. For more info, visit globalexchange.org. Get more eco-friendly homemade gift ideas.

Get (enough) exercise. Find out how much you really need in October, when the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (the same group that wrote the Dietary Guidelines for Americans) unveils the first-ever Physical Activity Guidelines. Gym shorts, check. Walking shoes, check. Get moving! Check out EatingWell's diet and exercise tips.

Find your inner farmer. Learn why Tim Stark traded his job as a New York City management consultant to take up heirloom tomato farming. In his recently released memoir, Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer (Broadway Books, 2008), Stark details the triumphs and tribulations of his quest for truly pure produce. Learn more about heirloom foods and how you can help revive America's food traditions.

Go meatless on Mondays. Skipping meat and high-fat dairy products just one day each week could cut your saturated-fat intake by 15 percent, according to Meatless Monday, a national health campaign. Check out meatlessmonday.com for more information and meat substitutes. Start your week on a healthy note! Find recipes for meatless meals in our Healthy Vegetarian Recipe Collection.

Live to 100. Did you know there are over 79,000 centenarians living in the United States, according to U.S. Census estimates? Celebrate Healthy Aging Month this September by eating your way young with foods like chocolate and blueberries. Find more anti-aging foods and other healthy-aging recipes.

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Thank you very much for addressing this important issue. If readers would like to learn more about Fair Trade and issues in the cocoa industry please visit the reverse trick-or-treating website. To receive an email inviting you to sign up for Reverse Trick or Treating next year when Global Exchange starts taking requests for kits, register for the Fair Trade national listserv at Global Exchange’s website. For those who are looking for Fair Trade certified trick or treating candy to hand out from your doorstep, it is available at Global Exchange, Equal Exchange, Divine, and Sweet Earth organics.

Sara Litke, Portland, OR

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