Vegetarian Harley Street Nutritionist Visits Newcastle United

It's not coals to Newcastle more fruit and veg and nutrition messages of 5 a day that celebrated Harley Street Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston will take to Newcastle United.

The Food For Life event has been arranged by Peter Mawer, the Employer Engagement Officer for Newcastle's 14-19 Learning Partnership and will be attended by 50 students from Westgate Community College who are all studying Health & Social Care.

Peter says "The aim of the event is to stimulate the students' thoughts as to what constitutes a healthy diet and what influences dietary needs."

The students will attend 5 workshops during the day. Workshops will be run by: NHS Trust Dietician, Foods for Life (Harley Street nutritionists), a working mother and homebuilder, Public Health for Nutrition and the Centre
for Sport. A varied and exciting lunch menu will introduce students to
tastes which they may have never come across before.

The 14-19 Learning Partnership is funding the event with Flexible Curriculum Programme funding which aims to provide students with opportunities to experience high quality vocational, occupational, enterprise and employability activities.

Yvonne a vegetarian and co-author of vegan Cookbook (Hamlyn £12.99)denies she will be trying to convert students to veganism.

"The aim of my workshops is to communicate 10 basic principles of optimum nutrition and healthy living and destroy a few stereotypes about what constitutes healthy food."

"For example Low fat yoghurts often contain up the equivalent of 5-6 spoonfuls of sugar"

As the song says a spoonful of sugar may well "help the medicine go down", but there's a new generation of nutritionists, trained at the Institute of Optimum Nutrition that are determined to help people be healthy enough to avoid the need for medicine.

EDITORS' NOTES

Pete Mawer
14-19 Newcastle Learning Partnership
Employer Engagement Officer
0191 277 4618

Yvonne Bishop-Weston London Nutritionist
http://www.london-nutritionist.co.uk
appointment@foodsforlife.org
07944 068432

Cookbook (recipes on BBC food)
http://www.vegan-cookbook.com

Foods For Life News
http://www.news.foodsforlife.org

Yvonne's Healthy Chocolate
http://www.plamilfoods.co.uk/nas.htm