We have a story on the importance of addressing the poor nutrition habits of children that are setting in across the country as lockdown and restrictions continue, in line with National Science Week.
We know that lockdown has a significant impact on our health and wellbeing but the impact to children’s nutrition can be lasting for their growing bodies and brains for the long term.
The largest Outside Hours School Care (OHSC) provider, Camp Australia, who are still looking after children as an essential service, is using National Science Week to help children fall in love with home cooking to get their health back on track with food lessons, science experiments and activities during this time.
Research shows the negative effects COVID continues to have on children’s nutrition and eating habits with the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne reporting one-quarter of children made more unhealthy food choices than they normally would because of the pandemic last year.
The ‘Food for Thought’ before and after school care activity, which includes an ‘Experimental Cookbook’ competition, is encouraging kids to jump in the kitchen and get excited about healthy eating.
We have available for interview a package:
- Brett Comer, Chief Operating Officer of Camp Australia, to speak on the impact of COVID on child nutrition and why it’s important to combat these impacts now.
- Julie Meek, Performance Specialist and Sports Dietician, who is bringing a wealth of knowledge to children as part of National Science Week.
- We can also arrange vision of the in service activity for National Science Week.We have attached the media release, as well as images for your use. Please feel free to let me know if I can provide anything else for a piece.
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