|
|
|
Happy Twenty Ten to you all, we trust you had a fabulous Festive Season. Its been back to work with a rush for us, with our second week of January equaling our biggest week of enrolments and we have a jam packed nutrition news for you this quarter also.
** DID YOU KNOW... ** Unit pricing at last! As of last month unit pricing became mandatory in supermarkets of more then 1000 sq metres Australia wide. Hooray, one small step for the consumer! Read more at http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2009/12/02/unit-pricing-becomes-mandatory.html Watch out for food with smoke flavour While we haven’t as yet been able to determine what smoke flavourings are permitted in Australia and New Zealand, or what part of the code they fall under, it doesn’t hurt to take note of overseas findings. The European Food Safety Authority stated that smoke flavour used in meat, cheese and fish may be toxic to health.... EFSA said it "cannot rule out concerns" about a flavouring called Primary Product AM 01, which is obtained from beech wood. The wood particles are burnt under controlled conditions and the hot vapours are dissolved in a solvent. The Panel says the use of the substance "at the intended levels is a safety concern". Read more at: http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2010/01/13/romania-looks-into-junk-food-tax.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AustralianFoodNews+%28Australian+Food+News%29 How about an ‘unhealthy food’ tax? Romania and Taiwan are looking to introduce a tax on unhealthy food as a way of increasing funding for their health system. The likely taxable products would include fast-food products, some snacks and chips, confectionery and soft drinks. Now of course defining what constitutes a ‘junk food’ may be tricky, but few would refute that soft drinks are high up the list and given the increasing evidence of their relationship to overweight who knows it may be a good move. One concern about such a tactic we had is that this is likely to slug many already struggling families. ** FACT OR FALICY? ** Cooking looses nutrients Fact! About 15% of water-based antioxidants are lost in broccoli when cooked and even more in cooked carrots. However, tomato and potato are the opposite. Peeling produce lowers the nutrition Fact! Generally true, most peeled produce looses significant amounts of nutrients and compounds. Read more in this article http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/Other/jfca17_407-422.pdf ** WHAT’S NEW? ** What Do I Feed My Baby – In stores now We are now on an extensive number of publishing databases so your local book shop can order your copy in for you. Just quote the name of the book or the ISBN (978-0-9803668-0-8), it’s that easy! Or look online at Sneakys for your local stockist. http://www.cadencehealth.com.au/SneakysOutlets.htm Thank you to all our fabulous customers, we have hit the 2000 mark with book sales of What Do I Feed My Baby. Our aim is the best seller list! Go team. Partnerships with large Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) a good move Our extended partnerships with large established RTOs, has seen an increase in student numbers. We have found that our students want not only pathways to courses that lead to real careers, but they want to study with the safety net of large well-established organisations backing them and us. Give us a tweet; or is that a twitter? Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter
** OUR PRODUCT PICK **
|
|
