National Nutrition Week

National Nutrition Week Together we can improve the health of Australians

By: Barbara Wards

As President of Nutrition Australia NSW, I wanted to personally invite everyone to join our campaign for National Nutrition Week (October 11-17, 2020). We are excited as it is one of our most influential events of the year, we hope you’ll join us!

Our NSW state theme is My Plate, My Planet – all about how we can fill our plates with sustainable, fresh produce and make a difference to our health and our environment. This links to the National theme of Try for 5, which promotes adding vegetables to your plate.

As part of this sustainable food campaign, we will be connecting with local Indigenous communities and businesses to engage their passion and knowledge on traditional food growing processes and the variety of native foods we have at our fingertips here in NSW.

National Nutrition Week is important, it will inspire Australians across the country to eat for health and sustainability, but also demonstrate how important this topic is for our future.

Our annual breakfast event hosted by Mark Coure MP at NSW Parliament House and our key note speaker every year is the Hon Brad Hazzard. Due to COVID -19 our annual breakfast event will be held by zoom. Through the support of NSW Government National Nutrition Week will motivate general community and schools across the country to incorporate healthy and sustainable food practices.

We have planned a number of activities during the week via zoom: launch, igniting indigenous ingredients and food for the future. Our launch

our very important annual event via zoom by Monday 12th October.

High profile Key Note Speaker of our panel discussion, Food for the Future, on October

16th from 6-7pm. This panel will include prominent researchers in sustainable food and agriculture, health professionals, and Indigenous leaders. It will be an engaging and interactive discussion about how we can achieve sustainable food systems now and, in the future, from farm to fork.

With the myriad of challenges Australians have faced over the past year, from droughts to bushfires and COVID-19, looking after our environment and our health is something that is on everyone’s minds. We want to give our families, communities, workplaces, schools and organisations – everyone - hope for a sustainable, healthy future through My Plate, My Planet. Further information 9570 3990 https://nutritionaustralia.org/division/nsw/ national-nutrition-week/

my plate my planet

Grow well. Eat well. Save well.

Celebrate National Nutrition Week in NSW 11 - 17 October 2020

Learn more by visiting www.nutritionaustralia.org/division/nsw/national-nutrition-week

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