Lana Brandt
Vancouver General Hospital pilots new ...
Vancouver General Hospital pilots new plant-rich menu items for health of patients and planet
Lana Brandt
Taking Inspiration from Denmark’s Example in ...
Taking Inspiration from Denmark’s Example in Healthy, Sustainable Food Systems
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Press release: Yes hospital food can be ...

Yesterday, participants from the health and community sectors came together to taste firsthand the possibilities for traditional Indigenous foods in health care institutions such as hospitals and long-term care centers. Working under the guidance of four different leaders, each team of participants cooked a dish representing a different Indigenous community.

Press release: Yes hospital food can be delicious, sustainable, and honour Indigenous foodways
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Nourish Anchor Cohort in Montreal

From June 7 - 10, 2022, the Nourish Anchor Cohort gathered for the first time in person in Montréal, Québec. Over a series of workshops, visits to a farm, hospital kitchen, and various community food initiatives, participants saw, learned from, and tasted what it’s like when health care and community comes together to strengthen food security.

Nourish Anchor Cohort in Montreal
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Nourish Anchor Cohort: Working across silos for ...

In the nine months since the Anchor Cohort began in 2021, the seven teams have brought together stakeholders from health care, community organizations, Indigenous leaders, academia, environmental groups, and more, breaking through the silos that often separate sectors.

Nourish Anchor Cohort: Working across silos for community health

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Nourish Innovator Kathy Loon featured on CBC: 'Food is medicine': Sioux Lookout hospital program brings traditional food to patients

Nourish Innovator Kathy Loon featured on CBC: 'Food is medicine': Sioux Lookout hospital program brings traditional food to patients

A plate of baked pickerel with potatoes, vegetables and a slice of bannock is one of the special meals given to patients at Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre every Thursday. It's part of the Miichim traditional food program co-ordinated by Kathy Loon. Read more here.

“Telling the story of self, us and now”: Seeing Environmental Nutrition in Health Care in New Ways | Nourish Wasan Retreat | October 2018

The overlap of health care and food systems is multifaceted. Nourish convened 22 leaders from across healthcare, government, food systems and philanthropy together for a four day retreat on Wasan Island in order to explore the opportunities around environmental nutrition in health care. Environmental nutrition (2014), a concept coined by Health Care Without Harm, reframes healthy food as contributing beyond individual well-being towards a collective social responsibility for creating healthy communities and a sustainable food system.

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