Sydney – The importance of healthy eating for culturally and linguistically diverse communities is the focus of Multicultural Health Week 2024 which is encouraging everyone to get together to prepare healthy lunchboxes for work, school, or a day out.
NSW Health Minister Ryan Park announced the theme for this year, ‘Celebrate culture through food with multicultural family lunchboxes’ and encouraged everyone to create delicious and healthy lunchboxes as a great way to teach children some positive lifelong habits.
One of Australia’s favourite chefs and multicultural health ambassador, Adam Liaw joins this year’s Multicultural Health Week to help promote healthy eating for adults and children by creating some family lunchbox recipes, as well as providing some healthy eating tips.
Research shows five serves of vegetables are recommended each day for adults for overall health and wellbeing and to help lower risks of cancer and chronic illnesses.
However, only four out of 100 adults and six out of 100 children eat enough vegetables. Studies reveal children eat about a third of their day’s food at school which is why it is important to add more vegetables to lunchboxes.
The Multicultural Health Week 2024 resources and program include:
- Video of Adam’s lunchbox challenge with Kerry and Marianne.
- Adam Liaw’s multicultural family lunchbox recipes
- A two minute video with Adam Liaw promoting healthy eating through multicultural family lunchboxes in English and available in Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and Vietnamese.
- Four x 15 second videos with tips for healthy eating
- Multicultural Health Week poster, factsheet, and social media assets in English and 39 other languages
- Multicultural Family Lunchbox Challenge
Visit the Multicultural Health Week webpage and social media for more information and resources.
Healthy Eating Active Living is where you can find practical tips, tools, and free NSW Government programs to help you and your family make simple changes now to live healthier lives in the future. NSW Health also has a range of low cost, easy-to-make recipes for the whole family, including a weekly menu planner.