March is (Inter)National Nutrition Month

Posted on 6 March 2007 under Cookbooks, Nutrition | 1 Comment

Some news outlets are reporting that March is National Nutrition Month. Normally such events are seemingly national events with no international equivalent. However, the CBC is reporting that Canada has the same thing going on right now. From the article:

“Brandishing the slogan ‘Cook It Up Healthy,’ the Dietitians of Canada are using March’s Nutrition Month to encourage people to prepare home-cooked meals throughout the week, says Caroline Dubeau of Toronto, a spokesman for the 5,500-member organization … ‘Recent studies have shown that people are more and more eating convenience foods, takeout and we want to bring them into the kitchen,’ she says.”

While the U.S.-based American Dietetic Association offers a few recipes on their web site in the form of a four-page PDF, the Canadians are going all-out. (Yes, I know the ADA offers other cookbooks, but none of them are linked to this event.) You can order a copy of the cookbook “Simply Great Food” from the Dieticians of Canada. This cookbook contains 250 recipes and 50 pages of editorial info on nutrition. While the Minestrone with Turkey Sausage recipe seems a dieter’s dream, other recipes, such as the Slow-Cooked Chili Flank Steak or Brisket and the Best-Ever Chocolate Cookies are simply mouth-watering.

The Canadian Dietetic Association also offers two other cookbooks; their “Cook Great Food” cookbook and their ”Great Food Fast” cookbook from their 2000 National Nutrition Month campaign. 

I just like the Canadians’ take on this. It seems a bit more fun, less stoic.

But there’s something about all of this that bothers me …

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