{"id":358,"date":"2013-11-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2013-11-17T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T21:00:00","slug":"new-jamie-oliver-ministry-to-open-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"New Jamie Oliver ministry to open in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>Good to see this, aligned with Riot Health mission&#8230; potential partnering opportunity?<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodfood.com.au\/good-food\/food-news\/new-jamie-oliver-ministry-to-open-in-sydney-20131022-2vz6i.html\">http:\/\/www.goodfood.com.au\/good-food\/food-news\/new-jamie-oliver-ministry-to-open-in-sydney-20131022-2vz6i.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>New Jamie Oliver ministry to open in Sydney<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">October 22, 2013<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<div><\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Passionate about encouraging people to eat more healthily: Jamie Oliver.\" src=\"http:\/\/images.goodfood.com.au\/2013\/10\/22\/4851165\/wb-jamie-lead-20131022183426548999-620x0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>On a mission &#8230; Jamie Oliver is opening a Ministry of Food in western Sydney.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodfood.com.au\/good-food\/food-news\/by\/Esther-Han\">Esther Han<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For many years Jamie Oliver has been on a crusade to fight obesity and bad eating habits, with the aim to equip people the world over with cooking skills and a greater appreciation of fresh food.<\/p>\n<p>Sydneysiders have witnessed his mission through numerous television shows, campaigns and cookbooks. Now it&#8217;s closer to home, with the announcement of the first Ministry of Food centre in NSW.<\/p>\n<p>The British chef will open a cooking school in August to teach basic kitchen skills. It will be at the Stockland Shopping Centre at Wetherill Park in western Sydney, which is undergoing a $222 million redevelopment. It will be Oliver&#8217;s fifth Ministry of Food kitchen in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObesity is not just a diet-related disease. It&#8217;s the biggest killer in Australia and what the Ministry of Food is, it&#8217;s a fix and response that really does transform people&#8217;s confidence in the kitchens,\u201d Oliver said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"adspot-300x250-pos-3\"><small>Advertisement<\/small><\/div>\n<p>The cooking classes, funded by the not-for-profit arm of electrical goods retailer The Good Guys, will focus on basic cooking skills, nutrition, budgeting, meal planning and shopping tips.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver said recipes would be healthy and tasty and would include desserts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all love ice-cream. Life is about ice-cream and sometimes people get confused with some of my messaging,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course we want to be as healthy as possible but we don&#8217;t want to edit out things in life. Life is about having beautiful treats and cakes and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the problems began when parents gave in to their child&#8217;s requests for more soft drinks and desserts. \u201cThat&#8217;s the sort of repetition that gets us into trouble. Absolutely I give my kids ice-cream but my wife is fairly strict about when and how much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Australian Diabetes Council revealed that a diabetes epidemic had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/western-sydney-diabetes-danger-zone-20130714-2py95.html\">gripped the western suburbs of Sydney<\/a>, with Liverpool in the south labelled as the suburb with the highest number of people with the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 10 suburbs with the highest incidence of diabetes, seven were in Sydney&#8217;s west, said head researcher, Alan Barclay. This includes Liverpool, Mount Druitt, Campbelltown, Westmead and Blacktown.<\/p>\n<p>The high rates could be drastically reduced with a combination of improved primary healthcare and better knowledge of healthy cooking, he said in July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople need to know more about food and how to prepare it,&#8221; Barclay said. &#8220;We have to start doing more in schools and in the local community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The co-host of Channel Nine&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Today\u00a0<\/em>show, Lisa Wilkinson, will be the ambassador of the Ministry of Food centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to see this, aligned with Riot Health mission&#8230; potential partnering opportunity? Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.goodfood.com.au\/good-food\/food-news\/new-jamie-oliver-ministry-to-open-in-sydney-20131022-2vz6i.html New Jamie Oliver ministry to open in Sydney October 22, 2013 On a mission &#8230; Jamie Oliver is opening a Ministry of Food in western Sydney. 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