Birmingham diet, nutrition and health webinar series

Weight gain has been a major issue during COVID-19 pandemic.

This webinar series is dedicated to diet nutrition and health.

The webinars provide overview of how to be healthy by making the right choice of food.

This series of webinars will discuss:

The importance of healthy eating from toddler to adults.
Eat well discussions and plant-based diet.
Community interventions and PACE.
How to deal with Food poverty.
How diet and weight gain affect pregnancy and child health.
Food and mood.
Diet and long term conditions.

This series is aimed at anyone who encourages people to eat healthy and/or is interested in learning more about the benefits of healthy eating.

All webinars run from 2pm to 3pm

Speakers

Dr Justin Varney, Director of Public Health, Birmingham City Council
Kyle Stott, Service lead, Places
Dr Vasudha Jeve, GP registrar

This webinar will introduce the Birmingham Diet, Nutrition and Health webinar series, set out the concepts, explain how this fits with the Creating a Healthy Food City Forum and the emerging food strategy for the city and the forward plan for the webinars.

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