" @hhsfoundation.bsky.social took the #CoolfoodPledge through Nourish Leadership. The Coolfood Pledge is a global initiative that helps organizations, including hospitals, reduce the climate impact of food they serve." 🥬
#NourishLeadership #FoodWaste #HospitalFood
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Healing looks different for everyone. Culturally mindful food service gives people a feeling of home when they need it most. nourishleadership.ca A maroon background with white text, with an image of Three Sisters Soup in a bowl on a green tray, accompanied by a cob of corn, a small squash, and long beans to highlight the ingredients.
It's #NutritionMonth! Healing looks different for everyone. Familiar food that tastes like home brings comfort, memory, & enhances care - improving nutrition and decreasing the time spent in hospital.
Join us & make culturally meaningful food a pillar of care 👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/mem...
Nourish is launching a national Culinary Medicine Community of Practice this spring on the Nourish Commons. Join us at nourishleadership.ca/programs/mem...
#NourishLeadership #CulinaryMedicine #TeachingKitchens #FoodasMedicine #FoodIsMedicine #DeliciousNutrition
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Planetary Health Director Amy Ford attended a #CulinaryMedicine workshop in Toronto last week exploring how food, health, & clinical practice intersect. Events like this highlight the growing momentum behind food as medicine & health care's role in supporting healthier, more sustainable diets.
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Today's the day. Join us in the Nourish Commons - Nourish's new national membership network for food for health leaders. This members-only space makes it simple to find the networks, resources, and expertise you need to leverage the power of food for health and well-being.
👉 nourish-commons.mn.co
March is National Nutrition Month, and we are excited to launch the FNHA's annual Food is Medicine wellness campaign.
This month, FNHA's Wellness Team will share stories, videos, workshops, and teachings about food from a First Nations perspective.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4u6Xjiq
![The best nutrition? What gets eaten. Healthy doesn't have to mean bland and boring. Flavour and joyful colour are vital parts of comfort and recovery.
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The best nutrition? What gets eaten. Healthy doesn't have to mean bland and boring. Flavour and joyful colour are vital parts of comfort and recovery. [A purple background with white text and the image of a young girl taking an enthusiastic bite of sandwich.]
It's #NutritionMonth! Transforming food in health care to be more delicious improves health & well-being, decreases #malnutrition, and decreases hospital time. Harness delicious nutrition for health and well-being - join Nourish today!
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Nutritious and Delicious: Better Bites, Better Outcomes Mar 24, 2026 10:30 am to 11:30 am PT
Join Nourish's Jen Reynolds in conversation with Stephen Beckta @ottawahospital.on.ca as we explore what we can do through collective learning and action to shift stuck patterns and leverage delicious meals for the health of people and planet. 🍽️ #NourishLeadership
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Roses are red, oceans are blue. Health care would be better, producing less CO2. A green background with a heart-shaped planet earth with a cute face smiling over a pink circle.
Indigenous foods in health care? We'd pick them any day! A maroon background with different kinds of cute berries with happy faces.
Coolfood member? We love you to pizzas. A heart-shaped pizza with heart-shaped pepperoni on a green background.
Give them something really sweet this Valentine's Day: A Nourish Commons membership. A parcel with a red heart tied on it, with a gift tag that says 'meet you in the Nourish Commons' in scripted font.
💚 We're exclaiming our love from the rooftops: food puts the "care" in health care! 🩷 Who's making your pulses race with their #DeliciousClimateAction? Send them some love!
This Valentine's, show your organization some love with a Nourish Commons membership: nourishleadership.ca/programs/mem...
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Join Nourish, join the movement. Commit to leveraging the power of food for health with your organizational membership with Nourish. Signal your commitment to changing the way food is served in health care settings by joining the Nourish Commons. 💌
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Replacing some or all animal protein with plant protein can significantly improve patient & planetary health. Learn how your organization can take #DeliciousClimateAction with Nourish: become a member today 👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/mem... 💪
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Leverage the Power of Food for Health. Join the Nourish Commons. Join the Movement. The Commons is Nourish’s new national membership network, launching March 2026. nourishleadership.ca/membership
For organizations... Organizational membership comes with full access to Nourish’s work: self-guided courses, communities of practice, Coolfood, and all of our resources and expertise. With your Nourish Commons organizational membership, you’ll also receive an invitation to the 100 Million Better Bites journey. 100 Million Bites programming involves an annual learning and action cycle with full access to Nourish resources, quarterly practice calls, mentorship, grants, progress tracking tools, and 1:1 supports. Your organization receives five seats, with the option to add additional seats as desired.
...and individuals. While organizations journey together on the road to 100 Million Better Bites, what if you aren’t attached to an organization? The Commons is your home, too. When you sign up as an individual professional for the Nourish Commons, you’ll gain access to our one-stop shop for all things Nourish. This includes opportunities to participate in invitation-only communities of practice and working groups, and access to our learning catalogue. Be the first to know about upcoming events, convenings, and get the inside scoop on Symposium!
Nourish is launching a new national membership network. With your Nourish Commons membership, your organization gains access to the full suite of Nourish programs, courses, tools, expertise, & networks so you can fully leverage the power of food for health and well-being.
Join us 👉 bit.ly/4btE4J1
“What Western science has concluded with EAT-Lancet is also what we see in the traditional dietary patterns of Indigenous cultures. The challenge for Canadian health care is what knowledge we can create more space for when working in relationship with elders & knowledge holders.” - Hayley Lapalme, Executive Director, Nourish
#EAT-Lancet recommends that #Indigenous foods be incorporated & promoted in the #PlanetaryHealthDiet as essential sources of micronutrients, protein, fibre & dietary diversity: these foods make up healthy diets of wild proteins & plants, sustainably harvested & hunted through traditional foodways. 🍓
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“I’m grateful for the Nourish Anchor Leadership Award, which celebrates the work at St. Joseph’s. By shaping food & nutrition for both human & #planetaryhealth in a #healthcare setting, our goal is to leverage the power of food to move us toward a healthier, better future.” 🌎🙌💚
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“It’s not just about cutting salt from a recipe — that doesn’t add flavor. Instead, we reverse engineer meals to meet dietary needs from the start, rather than modifying an existing recipe into something less delicious.” 👩🍳 #FoodAsMedicine #HospitalFood
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We're just one week away! This dialogue will explore how Indigenous worldviews understand food as medicine, what #healthcare teams must do to act with cultural integrity, and how #Two-EyedSeeing can guide the design of #food for health initiatives. 🍓
Register here 👉 us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The work @ottawahospital.on.ca to lever the power of #food inspires us on the road to 100 Million Better Bites - our 2030 goal to transform #healthcare meals aligned with Nourish’s vision. And the food? "Packed of flavours, feels like home." 🩷 #FoodAsMedicine
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Nous sommes conscients que «nourriture délicieuse» et «hôpital» sont des mots que nous ne voyons pas souvent dans la même phrase. Dans une volonté de changer les choses, nous nous sommes associés à l’un des meilleurs restaurateurs d’Ottawa pour ce faire. Voici en exclusivité : bit.ly/4k9gbsI
Eating healthy food can prolong your life - and it’s also crucial for a healthy planet. Transforming the global food system is just as important as the energy transition if we want a prosperous and equitable future on Earth, writes Johan Rockström in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To learn more about the power of nudging, check out Nourish's webinar, 'How Choice Architecture Can Promote Happier Patients and Planetary Health', with Nourish Cohort Alumnus Annie Marquez and Nourish Ambassador Dr. Sadaf Mollaei.
#NourishLeadership #ChoiceArchitecture
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Nudging: a powerful strategy #healthcare can use for #planetaryhealth.
Le #nudging: une stratégie efficace que les soins de santé peuvent utiliser pour la santé planétaire.
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Thank you for reading along with us today! Stay in touch with Nourish by giving us a follow - we're launching 100 Million Better Bites soon on the Nourish Commons. 🥬
And we have our second preview webinar coming up on February 13 - register today 👉 bit.ly/4sVn9FE
"What Western science has concluded with EAT-Lancet is also what we see in the traditional dietary patterns of Indigenous cultures. The challenge for Canadian health care is what knowledge we can create more space for when working in relationship with elders & knowledge holders." - Hayley Lapalme 🍓
"Medical doctors and those working in hospitals - we must open their minds about the importance of healthy, delicious food." 🙌
Nourish is working with hospitals making great strides on delicious nutrition, within significant financial constraints. Learn more: nourishleadership.ca/programs/anc...
Nourish sees a distinction between industrial farming production and land-based, reciprocal ones. This is a conversation Nourish wants to bring with EAT-Lancet: showcasing forward Indigenous leadership on planetary health diets.
Learn more: nourishleadership.ca/programs/pol...
#IndigenousFoodways
"The evidence is clear: shifting diets is the strongest lever. Replacing (especially) over-consumption of red meat."
We have a big opportunity to take on that imbalance when the diets of the richest 30% of the global population contribute to over 70% of environmental pressures from food.
"In a world that can feel chaotic, EAT-Lancet provides a guiding framework that is directionally correct." - Hayley Lapalme, Nourish
Nourish's 100 Million Better Bites campaign aims to build on the science of EAT-Lancet 2.0 & translate it into practices that work for our food & health systems here.
#EAT-Lancet outlines 8 focus areas with a menu of 23 actions:
🍏 Healthy food environments
🐟 Celebrating healthy traditional diets
🌎 Sustainable production & value chains
🌳 Preserving natural habitats
🥑 Reduce food loss & waste
💰 Living wages
⚖️ Social protection measures
🦺 Worker safety regulations
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"While food systems are contributing to planetary boundary transgressions, these systems also hold keys to change." We can aspire to a planetary health diet, food system boundaries with low GHGs and land use, and strong social foundations that are fair and just. - Ellen Wright
"Food systems workers are systematically underpaid and often working under sub-standard conditions. The people that produce the food that patients eat are at the bottom of the income scale." - Ellen Wright
#FoodJustice #Agriculture #FoodSystems
