Castro promotes event on healthy and sustainable eating

On Friday (16), the city of Castro hosts the event "Food that cares: health, flavor and sustainability", in allusion to World Food Day. The initiative is of the Municipal Council of Food and Nutrition Security (COMSEA), in partnership with municipal secretariats and institutions, and will be held together with the Justice in Neighbourhoods program. The program takes place from 9 am to 4.30 pm, at the Athletics Track and at the Ginásio Gerson Torres Pereira, and is open to the entire population.

The objective is to increase access to information on food and nutrition security, encouraging healthy habits, the integral use of food, the reduction of waste and the valorization of local and sustainable production.

The Municipal Secretariat of Health will address the importance of hydration for health and well-being. The Municipal Secretariat of Agriculture promotes the Fair More Kids, aimed at students of the fifth grade of urban municipal schools, who will be brought to the event by the Municipal Secretariat of Education. Students will have moments of learning and awareness about the importance of healthy and sustainable eating. At the fair, they will be able to exchange recycled material for fruits, in an action that encourages the separation and cleaning of these materials.

According to the Executive Secretary of COMSEA, Bruna Ribas, family farming will also be present throughout the event, with four participants. Two women will present products from the agribusiness, and two others will bring vegetables and vegetables.

Institutions and services that work with food, health and quality of life will also be present. The Casa da Criança will present the new feeding project and the Food Wheel, sharing educational initiatives on the subject. The Host São Vicente will hold an exhibition of photographs of the elderly people treated, with materials produced by them in the workshops of manual activities and a basket with food grown in the garden of the service, in addition to the distribution of informative folders. Participation will include nutrition trainees, caregivers and welcomed elderly people. The CACJ will hold an exhibition of photographs and distribute folders on healthy eating, in partnership with the Municipal Secretariat of Social Welfare, through the Department of Food Security.

The meeting seeks to strengthen the joint work between public authorities, institutions and the community, promoting food and nutrition education and highlighting the importance of choices that contribute to health, well-being and sustainability.

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