Nikki Coates (left) with Awatea Pickard
(middle) and Krystal Mokomoko from Te Pou
Oranga o Whakatohea.
What’s on your plate this Christmas?
By EBPHA Health Promotion & Communications
Coordinator, Carl Cowley. how pleased the young mums were with how easy the Healthy
Plate model is to follow.
A group of Ōpōtiki mums were recently treated
to a nutrition workshop based on ‘The Healthy
Plate’ model. “When it comes to nutrition and diets, so many people get
confused by the many different recommendations and rules, but
this model is by far the easiest to understand -and to tell you the
truth, I don’t know why it isn’t more widely known,” says Krystal.
EBPHA Dietitian, Nikki Coates, says “The Healthy plate model is
beneficial for all, and works on ½ your plate being vegetables ¼
plate meat or meat alternatives like beans, eggs, and cheese.
“The other ¼ should be made up of carbohydrate based foods,
preferably wholegrain varieties like brown rice, wholemeal pasta,
potatoes, corn or kumara.”
The workshop was organised by Te Pou Oranga o Whakatohea
Tamariki Ora Kaiawhina, Krystal Mokomoko, who commented on
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The workshop also focused on the high amount of sugar in drinks
such as juices and flavoured milk; how they have little or no
nutritional value and are one of the leading contributing factors
towards poor oral health, obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
If you would like Nikki to come and talk to a group within the
community you can contact her on 07 3062324 or
[email protected]