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Eat Well Tasmanian Kids Coalition presents:

Conference 2008

Interested in improving the health and wellbeing of Tasmanian children?
Then you'll be interested in this conference.

Eat Well Tasmanian Kids Coalition invites you to attend the Growing Our Futures Conference. Join us at the Tram Sheds in Launceston for an opportunity to: -

showcase initiatives that encourage healthy eating and physical activity for children
network with other members of the broader nutrition and physical activity community
share stories, learnings and experiences
develop skills to enhance and broaden current practice

Conference details and to Register online

or download conference prospectus and registration form. [PDF 74 KB]

Tasmanian Early Years Foundation

Newsletters

Eating Matters	Eating with Friends
Current newsletter	Current newsletter
December 2007 [PDF 2.1 MB]

Now is a great time to promote vegetables and fruit

Whether you can organise a cook-off or simply hang a poster on the wall, it all helps to spread the message. So get involved and organise your vegetable and fruit promotion activity today!

Click here for information about promoting Go for 2 & 5 and here for ideas on how you can promote Go for 2 & 5.

You can order resources from Eat Well Tasmania by completing and returning the order form.

For further information about the promoting vegetables and fruit in your community, please contact Eat Well Tasmania on (03) 6223 1266.

Resources

Hire a Veg & Fruit Costume

We are pleased to announce that we have a new addition to the Eat Well Tasmania Costume Cupboard thanks to valued support from Webster Fresh! The wonderful Walnut Costume has been added to the Costume Cupboard to promote the nutritional benefits of walnuts to the Tasmanian community.

Eat Well Tasmania is also pleased to announce that we have successfully received funding via Harvest Moon and the Tasmanian Community Fund for the Veg and Fruit in a Suit Project! As part of this project three new costumes and a range of promotional resources will be produced early in 2008.

To arrange costume hire for 2008 please complete the costume hire agreement form .

A Guide to Planning a Healthy Eating Activity

If you are planning a healthy eating promotion activity our updated Guide may provide you with some useful ideas and tips.

eatwell@work

eatwell@work is a new resource that looks at nutrition in the workplace and what both employees and employers can do to eat well at work.

Eating Matters

What's happening in food and nutrition promotion in Tasmania? Check out our latest Eating Matters newsletter to find out.
[Click Here - 1.8 Mb PDF]

Go for 2&5

Presentation by Dr Rosemary Stanton: The coming revolution in our eating habits

Climate change is likely to affect everything in our lives, including the food we eat. There are some obvious anomalies to address, including the absurdity of importing products such as bottled water, wine and cheeses and also using energy resources to create processed products that contribute no kilojoules so that overfed people can eat even more.

Other areas that will almost certainly change will include a move to locally grown foods, more products grown using sustainable organic methods, less meat (especially grain-fed beef) and more plant-based foods. There will also be a huge need to teach people how to cook from scratch rather than using packaged processed foods.

To view this presentation please click here. [PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer required - download PowerPoint viewer here]

2007 Annual Report

Over the past 12 months, Eat Well Tasmania has continued working towards supporting and enabling individuals, groups, communities and organisations to promote enjoyable healthy eating. Go to the 2007 Annual Report to find out more. [805kb PDF]