2007 VSCA CANTEEN EXPO Date: Saturday, 17 March 2007, 9:30am to 3pm Place: St Bernard’s College, 41 Rosehill Rd, Essendon Info: (03) 9890 4203 www.vsca.org.au
The Exhibition included Jacqi Deighan of Natural Kitchen Strategies,
along with other vendors, displays, samples, practical “healthy canteen” presentation, food demonstrations, sharing ideas, gaining information, & tapping into peer support.
The expo is designed for city or country schools, small or large, government or catholic or independent.. with the purpose of assisting schools wanting to implement new government policy for school food.
At the expo, Natural Kitchen Strategies launched their new CD with over 100 delicious tried and tested recipes specially formulated for school canteens.
Click here for more details.
Schooldays for Parents
Jacqi Deighan is now the food writer for this quality education and parenting magazine for parents with children in Kindergarten to Year 12 and just beyond.
Jacqi's articles help parents bring healthy living and eating into their families' lives.
This quarterly magazine is designed to give parents a better understanding of schools and smooth the way to a happy, healthy school life, covering topics such as: understanding the curriculum and school systems, behaviour, teaching thinking skills, starting school, time management for busy families, parent/school relationships, study skills, helping choose career and tertiary options, quick and easy healthy food ideas and much more.
Jacqi Deighan is also the food writer for this quality, informative, magazine focussing on the positives in education, with editorial written by specialists in their fields of education, designed to uplift and inspire teachers.
Education Today is published quarterly, once in each school term, for educators of students (k-12), administration, support staff and school marketers in all schools, government and non-government.
Date: Weekend 24 & 25 June 2006, 10am to 4pm Place: Rosehill Racecourse, Sydney Info: (02) 9683 6725 www.edexpo.info
EVERYTHING EDUCATIONAL
The Exhibition included Jacqi Deighan of Natural Kitchen Strategies,
educational institutions, learning resources, community programs,
government agencies, educational services, career training and specialist advice.
The expo is designed for teachers, parents and students, from preschool to postgraduate.
In addition to hundreds of booths,
there was a non stop performing stage, workshops,
free healthy canteen samples, a chess challenge and a visual arts studio.
Natural Kitchen Strategies had a booth which provided teachers and parents with a wide variety of healthy eating ideas, and in addition, Jacqi gave presentations in the theatre.
With Hundreds attending, the Expo was sucessful in providing helpful resources to educators and parents alike.
TV ADS PLAY A ROLE IN OBESTIY EPIDEMIC
The Australian newspaper has a forum for allowing their readers to comment on their articles.
Jacqi Deighan has her say about Junk Food advertising during Children's TV shows.
Here are a few excerpts from Jacqi Deighan's submission to The Australian Forum:
"Children need protection and exposing them to relentless junk food marketing by ruthless advertising companies is not the way to do it."
"The junk-food advertising industry is not to blame for the obesity crisis but taking the small step of banning these commercials during children's television viewing times may go a long way towards making a cultural shift in the way children view the world of food."
Read more...
BRINGING OUT THE GOURMET IN YOUR KIDS
For Melbourne's Child magazine's new section called "Let's Eat", Jacqi Deighan wrote an article regarding her concerns about the unimaginative children's menus that some resturaunts offer our kids.
Here are a few excerpts from The Melbourne's Child article which explains why children's menus are not healthy:
"Kids are more sophisticated than we give them credit for and restaurants need to know they are insulting the gourmets of tomorrow by offering them the cheap and tasteless fodder of the typical kids' menu."
"We need to give kids the respect they deserve, and acknowledge that even the most intractable junk-food eaters can learn to dine well if given the chance."
Read more...
LUNCHBOX DUTY FOR TEACHERS
In some schools, teachers are conducting daily health checks on school lunchboxes.
Amid the controversy of banning soft drinks in schools, Herald Sun - Health Watch interviewed Jacqi Deighan. She was asked about her views on the bans of soft drinks in schools..
Here are a few excerpts from The Herald Sun article:
Children's food educator Jacqi Deighan, of Natural Kitchen Strategies, welcomed the new policy but urged even tougher bans. "School is a place of learning. Just like cigarettes, selling soft drinks, confectionery and other unhealthy foods is not appropriate".
"Many schools still had an appalling food record".
Read more...
CHILDREN'S FOOD ADVERTISEMENT AWARDS
In her role as a founding member and representative of The Parents Jury (Australia), Jacqi Deighan was interviewed by several Radio Stations during July 2005 about the recenly released results of the Parents Jury Best and Worst Children Food Advertisement Awards.
Some of the on-air interviews she participated in were for:
Jacqi Deighan is a founding parent and member of the steering group of the Parent's Jury, a web-based network of parents who wish to improve the food and physical activity environments for children in Australia.
The Parents Jury (Australia), comprising about 800 Australian parents, announced the results of a vote on television advertisements aimed at children, along with a call for new restrictions on junk-food ads.
The results of the "Parents' Choice", "Pester Power" and "Smoke and Mirrors" Awards were covered by Today Tonight, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
The following is a short excerpt from the Parents Jury June 28, 2005 press release:
"Obesity expert Professor Boyd Swinburn today outlined how the advertising preyed on children and their parents to increase their sales. The evidence that the heavy marketing of junk food to young children works is seen in their ongoing investment of hundreds of million dollars a year in the use of such dubious tactics, especially on television." Read more...
SUPER BRAIN FOOD TIPS FOR YEAR 12 STUDENTS
The morning the Herald Sun Article was published, The Pulse 94.7 FM requested an on-air interview with Jacqi for their Scanlan's Front Page program Tuesday June 7, 2005.
Click here to listen to a short snippet about "eating and studying cycle" from the The Pulse 94.7 FM interview
EAT TO A HIGHER IQ
During June 2005, more than 79,000 Victorian Year 12 Students sat their mid-year VCE exams.
In a timely Herald Sun - Health Watch interview, Jacqi Deighan was asked about her school-based seminars called: "Optimise Your Brain Power for VCE".
Here are a few excerpts from The Herald Sun article which explain how eating well can help boost young people's IQ by up to 15 percent:
"What many young students don't realise is that the way they eat can undermine or enhance their study potential and affect their academic performance."
"They just don't make the connection between food and clarity of mind or strength of purpose. And a 10 or 15 per cent increase in IQ could mean the difference between getting into their chosen university course or not."
Read more...
CHANGING THE LUNCH BOX
ABC Regional FM radio interviewer Stan Thomas had Jacqi Deighan give an on-air interview, 11 March 2005
Jacqi gave adivice on packing a 'back to the basics' lunch box.
Here are a few excerpts from the ABC FM interview:
"More and more, a culture of second rate eating has crept into the lunch box. Today you are more likely to see Twisties and Wagons Wheels than fruit or salad. But if you think children won't eat anything else, you're wrong."
"It's about reclaiming our roles as a parent. We have to make the choices that are right for our children and one of those choices is how we feed them."
"Don't be scared off by the thought of having to put together something elaborate - it's simply a matter of concentrating on fresh natural foods."
Read more... (if above linked page not available - click here)
Recently, Natural Kitchen Strategies' was featured on the Melbourne PC user's group website.
Upset by the increasing incidence of childhood obesity and the marketing tactics of food manufacturers inducing children to eat high-fat, high-sugar, processed and fast food, Jacqi works on a consultancy basis with schools.
Services include the following: - advising them on making healthy changes to their canteens - running classroom sessions for primary and secondary
students - interactive presentations to their parents on providing nourishing lunches - conducts Teacher Education Forums to facilitate discussion about the importance of health promotion in schools.
Her website Natural Kitchen Strategies has many helpful suggestions for schools and parents, which even overweight adults might benefit from reading! Read more... (if above linked page not available - click here)
Jacqi was interviewed by Fay Burstin regarding her advice to parents, teachers, principals, school councils and canteen managers about healthy eating.
Here are a few excerpts from The Herald Sun article which also includes some great tips for both school and parents:
"Aussie kids were growing fatter and unhealthier by the day on a diet of junk food, while parents and schools watched helplessly."
"A culture of feeding children second-rate food has seeped into our everyday lives and become acceptable."
"But it's seriously eroding our our children's current and future health and we can't just stand by and let it happen."
Read more...
FIGHTING THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC
MIX 101.1 FM Radio personalities Paul Holmes and Jane Marwick interviewed Jacqi Deighan on their morning breakfast show. ~ Thursday, February 24, 2005 ~ Jacqi provided some quick healthy alternative ideas for your kids' school lunch box.
The following is a short excerpt from The Age article written by Chee Chee Leung February 26, 2005 about Southmoor's canteen the successful healthy lunch alternative pilot project that Jacqi Deighan initiated in 2004.
"...
It could be a cafe menu: frittata with potato and cheese, an organic mountain bread wrap with Greek salad followed by dried fruit and nuts on a bed of coconut.
But this is the tuckshop tucker at Southmoor Primary School, where pies and canned drinks have been ditched in favour of healthy alternatives.
With Australian childhood obesity increasing, this Moorabbin school is one of many across Victoria trying to make their canteen food healthier" Read more... (if above linked page not available - click here)
JURY SAYS JUNK FOOD ADS GUILTY
As a founding member of the Parents Jury, Jacqi Deighan was interviewed by Fay Burstin for the Herald Sun - HealthWatch about her views on Junk Food Ads.
Because Jacqi regularly talks to parent groups about nutrition, she hears the stories first-hand about how the Junk Food Ads effect children... how the kids are attracted to the powerful ads and then pester their parents to purchase the products.
Here are a excerpts from The Herald Sun article which quote Jacqi's concerns:
"Australia has the world's highest number of junk food ads per hour during children's viewing hours.... This makes me so angry because children are such an easy target and the big food companies take advantage of that."
"I'm angry at the way they use celebrities from TV shows like Playschool, who they can identify and trust, to sell breakfast cereals full of sugar... Or the way kids' favourite cartoon characters like Shrek or Bob the Builder are plastered all over sugary fruit juices and the kids see them and say 'mum, mum, look!', or the way fast food companies sponsor activities in school. It's just so deliberate and so wrong."
"Look at kids' menus in restaurants and they're full of junk food like chicken nuggets, chips and pizza... Children are treated as second-class citizens in restaurants and no one even questions it."
Read more...
PARENTS SPEAK OUT
Natural Kitchen Strategies is helping to build a healthier community for children, and fight back against Childhood Obesity.
Jacqi is one of the 12 founding Parents that have helped establish the Australian version of the Parent's Jury.
The Parent's Jury website (www.parentsjury.org.au) was launched August 2004, and provides an opportunity for parents to voice how they feel about children's food and physical activity environments, at a local, state or national level.
The Parent's Jury's opening was covered by Channel Nine News, and also by The Age.
The following is a short excerpt from The Age article written by Andra Jackson - August 23, 2004 where it mentions Jacqi's work at the Southmoor canteen:
"... Armadale [children's food educator] Jacqi Deighan, who runs her own [health promotion] business, started a pilot project at the Southmoor Primary School canteen, in Moorabbin. Only fresh food is sold with the average cost of a meal $2.50 to $3.00. It has been a great success ..." Read more... (if above linked page not available - click here)
Jacqi has also been interviewed by A Current Affair about her role in Parent's Jury and her own successful innovative work with Southmoor's School Canteen. The show was aired 10th September 2004.
"... Jacqui Deighan was one of 12 parents who started the The Parent's Jury foundation, which aims to encourage families to live healthier lifestyles and make parents aware of their responsibility for their children's health." Read more... (if above linked page not available - click here)
Click here to view advertisement on how we help School's Government Funded Health Promotion activities.
Natural Kitchen Strategies advertises in the Education Times.
Education Times is a newspaper published by the Department of Education & Training fortnightly during the school year.
Education Times is distributed to all government school teachers and principals, non-teaching staff and school council members, with a circulation of over 70,000.
Education Times is of vital importance to the education community. It provides information on job vacancies, training opportunities, government education policies, news and innovations in education.
RADIO TALK SHOW
with Jennifer Anderson
Click here to Read about JACQI DEIGHAN FROM NATURAL KITCHEN STRATEGIES'
interview on the radio!
Jennifer Anderson (Vital Role) talked to Jacqi during her morning business show on Thursday July 10, 2003 at 8am. Southern FM 88.3
about what inspired Jacqi to create
Natural Kitchen Strategies.
Jacqi also discussed with Jennifer the problems of
childhood obesity in Australia, strategies
to help parents get healthy food into their children,
teenagers and the junk food culture and
how Natural Kitchen Strategies helps people
to start and maintain a healthy kitchen.
LISTEN IN AND BE INSPIRED!
On Tuesday June 24, 2003
Jacqi Deighan spoke to parents of the
Swinburne Prahran Community Children's Centre Co-op.
A lovely article was written up in the Stonnington Leader
about her presentation. Jacqi spoke to the Centre's parents about the need to feed and nourish ourselves and our children with pure, natural foods.
Click here to read the article, and more about the talk given that night.
NATURAL KITCHEN STRATEGIES' official company launch (March 2003)
Jacqi Deighan gave an inspirational presentation outlining the aims of the business, to an enthusiastic group. Click here for more information and to see some pictures from the night.
NKS ~ MEDIA
A lovely article was written up in the Stonnington Leader
about her presentation. Jacqi spoke to the Centre's parents about the need to feed and nourish ourselves and our children with pure, natural foods.
