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In partnership with Qld Cricket and with funding from the Queensland Government, Nutrition Australia Qld (NAQ) has conducted a “healthy sporting club make-over” project with 3 cricket club canteens in the Brisbane North Area to transform them into health promoting environments.

The project is aimed at increasing the availability and promotion of healthy food choices. Creating a health promoting sporting canteen is important in terms of promoting health and wellbeing within the club community, ensuring consistency of message and providing choice to consumers.

Sporting canteens face many of the same barriers that school canteens face in trying to create and promote healthier menus. Most notably a shortage of regular volunteers and limited equipment can make the change towards a healthier menu just that little bit more challenging.

Through our work with the cricket clubs we have trialled a number of strategies that have proved successful in assisting clubs in creating a healthier menu, promoting the canteens and supporting a health promoting environment at the clubs. 

For further information, please click on the link to the Queensland Sporting Clubs and Sports Canteens page.
 

People with Dementia find it increasingly difficult to recognise and consume food. This can lead to poor nutrition. They often tolerate finger food meals better than the traditional sit down meals. To help maintain their independence, people with dementia can benefit from a meal pattern incorporating finger foods.

The Nutrition Australia Queensland Aged Care Advisory Service is developing a Finger Foods Cookbook for Queensland Aged Care facilities and the carers of people with dementia. We are seeking contributions fromQueensland Aged Care Advisory Service members. If your facility has a great recipe we would like to hear from you. Recipes will be assessed by our team and appropriate acknowledgement will be given if your recipe is included in the cookbook.

As part of developing this resource we are also very interested in your experiences as a carer of people with dementia-the difficulties you have faced; how you have managed to overcome these; and any resources you have found helpful.

If you have a recipe or any experiences you would like to share please contact our Queensland Aged Care Dietitian, Amelia Webster –awebster@naqld.org by the 25th of July 2010.

For further information, please click on the link  for the Aged Care Advisory Service page.

‘Nutritiously Delicious’– truly manna from heaven!