Links & Resources
Here you will find links to nutrition information, organizations and other interesting and related sites.
Nutrition
Karen McElroy
Karen McElroy is a naturopath, medical herbalist, writer and nutrition educator. She founded and runs Healthy Kids Naturally. With over 10 years experience in helping individuals achieve health and vitality, Karen offers holistic healthcare with a difference.
Nourishing Our Children is an organisation that promotes healthy, whole foods for children and the traditional wisdom of nourising foods.
The Weston A Price foundation offers traditional wisdom on whole foods. Their mission is to disseminate the work of nutrition pioneer and dentist, Weston A Price, who travelled the world studying native people and what made them healthy.
Kid's Health Issues - Local & Global
There are so many issues that affect the health of our children. Explore the pages below to learn more about the dangers of genetically modified foods, food additives and chemicals in the environment. You will also find environmentally friendly food storage ideas for kids lunches.
The more we know, the better we can make the healthiest choices possible for our family.
Healthy Child, Healthy World : A Global Movement
A global push to remove chemicals from the lives of children. The Healthy Child Organisation are igniting a movement that inspires parents to protect young children from harmful chemicals in the environment. Watch their great video, "A Wake-Up Story" for an overview of this major health problem. http://awakeupstory.healthychild.org/
Join thousands of Australians taking action to say "no" to genetically engineered food. The True Food Network provides information about the dangers of GM foods and publishes a shopping guide to help make the safest choice for your family.
Sue Dengate's website provides information about food intolerance and additive sensitivities and the "Failsafe Diet".
Environmentally friendly and much safer than plastics for your children's lunches.These sites provide stainless steel drink bottles, lunch boxes and lunch wraps.
Sustainable Food & Local Resources
The Sunshine Coast's Regional Food and Produce Directory
Discover the wealth of hidden foodie treasures grown and produced throughout the wider Sunshine Coast region. Local Harvest's aim is to help you to source and locate these wonderful regional products while helping to create awareness and community support for our dedicated food and beverage industries.
Slow Food Sunshine Coast Hinterland
Slow Food Sunshince Coast Hinterland is the local convivium of Slow Food. From convivial small-table events and taste workshops to international forums, Slow Food builds community networks between grower and eater, agriculture and market, village and the world, and at its heart celebrates and champions ’small, slow food’ in ways that enhance knowledge, respect and passion. Our Sunshine Coast branch is very active in promoting local and sustainable food networks, real food tastings and nutrition education and events.
Permaculture Noosa & Permaculture Sunshine Coast
Permaculture is all about sustainable, natural systems of growing food and managing environmental resources. It is a design system based on ethics and principles which can be used to establish, design, manage and improve all efforts made by individuals, households and communities towards a sustainable future. A number of permaculture groups on the Sunshine Coast have formed to encourage and promote Permaculture within Sunshine Coast.
Permaculture Noosa meetings are held every third Thursday of the month at the Cooroy Memorial Hall at 7pm and include guest speakers, food market, seed banks and great networking.
Books
Sally Fallon - "Nourishing Traditions"
Full of useful health information and lots of whole food recipes for the whole family.
Michael Pollan - "In Defence of Food" & "Omnivore's Dilemma"
The Omnivore's Dilemma also comes in a young reader's edition which is aimed at teenagers. This is a great way to get kids educated about the hidden truths about what they are eating and motivated to make healthy changes.
Nina Planck - "Real Food"
An easy to read foray into the why, where and how of real food.
Schools
Edible School Gardens
Leonie Shanahan runs the Edible School Garden's Program on the Sunshine Coast. Includes school permaculture programs, teacher training and children's workshops for local schools. Students learn the life skill of growing organic food and the various systems within this process. The Edible school gardens program is a kid driven program that is now in 12 schools on the Sunshine Coast.
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program
The aim of the Kitchen Garden Program is pleasurable food education for young children. The underlying belief is that by introducing this holistic approach we have a chance to positively influence children’s food choices in ways that have not been tried before. The creation and care of a Kitchen Garden teaches children about the natural world, about its beauty and how to care for it, how best to use the resources we have, and an appreciation for how easy it is to bring joy and wellbeing into one’s life through growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing fresh, seasonal produce. There are currently 139 participating Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program schools, located around Australia.
Articles on nutrition
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