DO YOU know your way around the supermarket? Can you create a healthy meal on a budget?
Local dietician, Kendall North, is leading the current Stratford Dietetic Service, which focuses on nutrition and healthy choices.
Funded by the Pinnacle Taranaki Primary Health Organisation, Kendall is in Stratford every Wednesday holding nutrition clinics and supermarket tours at the local New World.
"We hope to provide a service that will help Stratford residents learn more about nutrition, become healthier and manage/and or prevent further diseases. This is also a great opportunity to educate locals who need to make healthier food choices and how to do it on a budget."
This includes quick meals, finding what food is in season, label reading, meal portion size and more.
Kendall is based at Dr Gerard Radich's Surgery every Wednesday, on the first Wednesday of each month there will be a supermarket tour at 3.30pm. Please phone 765 6681 to register as only Pinnacle GP clients are currently accepted.
Kendall has a science segree in human nutrition from Otago University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Dietetics.
She also holds clinics in New Plymouth two-and-a-half days a week.
Pinnacle Taranaki PHO chief executive, Andrew Brock, said Pinnacle is pleased to offer this service to locals, which is an important part of the overall health care available for residents.
"We are facing real issues with health and well-being in the community and we see dieticians as a way to fill part of the gap. Offering this easy access service in Stratford is one way we can help improve locals understanding.
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