 |
 The
Food for Life project funded by Healthy
Living Initiative Middleton (NOF) began
in December 2003. Community Food Worker
Dawn Brown-Lartey took up post and started
to make contact with community centres
and groups in Middleton. Dawn had been
employed in Inner Rochdale’s SRB5
funded community development food project
and has a background in catering.
Her role is to facilitate group sessions
around the subject of how food can maintain
good health. She uses the Balance of
Good Health plate model to explain the
five food groups.
Sessions are fun and interactive and
can lead to facilitation of food and
health initiatives if that is what residents
want.
All these activities help people to
relate healthy eating recommendations
to real life.
We aim to involve the communities of
Middleton in voicing food and health
issues and facilitate initiatives to
close the health gap where diet plays
a significant role, for example, preventing
obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes, coronary
heart disease, oral health problems
and some cancers. We try to use community
development methods/principles to address
food and health issues, such as; equity,
participation, collective action, empowerment
and partnership.
| The following
are some of the sessions that
can be facilitated: |
| How to set
up a food co-op |
| Setting up
a School Nutrition Action Group |
| Healthy Eating
- Is it possible? |
| Budgeting |
| Lunchboxes |
| Cook and Taste
with various ingredients |
| How do you
rate your health? |
| Coronary Heart
Disease |
| Osteoporosis |
| Where do I
find the best value ingredients? |
| Information
on a label |
| Managing Blood
pressure using changes in diet |
| The Balance
of Good Health |
| Good food
for children |
| Fats and Health |
| Weaning |
| Cooking Skills |
| Using new
ingredients |
| Foods from
other cultures |
| Displays and
information boards |
| 5ADAY (fruit
and vegetables) |
| Healthy Eating
for Older People |
| Healthy Eating
for Young Adults |
| Men's Dietary
Health |
| Women's Dietary
Health |
| Fun with food |
Contact us at the number below if you
would like more information.
Contact details: Community Food Worker:
0161
655 1597
Community Development Team: 01706
517148 |
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