News Release

                                                    For Immediate Release

                                                                                                                     August 11, 2010

CAW receives EatSmart! Award of Excellence

The menu in the cafeteria at the Canadian Auto Workers Family Education Centre in Port Elgin includes many healthy eating choices including low fat, low sodium and high fibre options. Presentation of the provincial EatSmart! Award of Excellence on Tuesday, August 10, acknowledges the Centre’s efforts towards healthy eating. The CAW Education Centre is the first workplace cafeteria in Grey Bruce to receive the award.

The award recognizes workplace cafeterias demonstrating excellence in the areas of nutrition, food safety and a smoke-free environment. Through the efforts of Executive Chef, Paul Johnston; CAW Executive Director, Dean Fowler; and the Centre’s Joint Health and Safety Committee, the workplace cafeteria offers lower fat, lower salt and higher fibre food choices along with the Chef Johnson’s personal commitment to use local foods whenever possible. The staff and visitors of the CAW Family Education Centre will enjoy the benefits of tasty and healthy food choices.

The goal of the Eat Smart! program is to contribute to the reduction of chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer by helping consumers identify healthier choices when eating away from home. The program is also meant to help reduce the incidence of food-borne illness in Ontario. 

For more information about the EatSmart! workplace and school cafeteria program, go to www.eatsmartontario.ca, or contact Public Health at 519-376-9420 or 1-800-263-3456 or visit our website at www.publichealthgreybruce.on.ca .

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Attachment: Photo Eat Smart Award presentation (left to right Dr. Hazel Lynn, Medical Officer of Health; Paul Johnston, Executive Chef; Dean Fowler, CAW Executive Director; Angela Newman, Grey Bruce Health Unit)

For more information:

Kathryn Forsyth RD

Public Health Dietitian

Grey Bruce Health Unit

519-376-9420 or 1-800-263-3456 ext. 1407

kforsyth@publichealthgreybruce.on.ca