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Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment @cape-acme.bsky.social · 6d

On October 6, health professionals across the country mobilized for the 1st-ever National Day of Action for Planetary Health. Because our health depends on a healthy planet. 🌎

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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 46m

📣 Speaker announcement for the 2025 Food for Health Symposium! We are excited to welcome these wonderful speakers for this year's program. Early bird registration is open until Friday, October 17.

Stay tuned - there's more to come!

👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/sym...

#NourishSymposium2025

🐟 José Morais is the Director of Food Services at the BC Provincial Health Services Authority. He believes that even minor adjustments in how services are delivered can have a major impact. José encourages others to “look at the little things, talk to your team, and try out new ideas.”

🥕 Brenda MacDonald is the Senior Director of the Nutrition and Food Services program at Nova Scotia Health Authority where she oversees more than 1000 wonderful team members involved in clinical nutrition care, food services, healthy eating, and dietetic practicum internship in 43 facilities across Nova Scotia.

🍓 Sara Montour is a Nutrition Activator with the Child and Youth Health team at the Six Nations Department of Well-Being. She leads hands-on, land-based programming that connects children and youth with traditional foods, Haudenosaunee teachings, and the natural environment.

🫛 Julia MacLaren RD a passionate Culinary Dietitian, is the Alberta Health Services Wellness Kitchen Consultant. With over 17 years of experience in federal, academic, and primary care roles, she fuels innovative knowledge translation and practical interprofessional nutrition care interventions through Culinary Medicine programs.

Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 48m

Nourish invites #healthcare organizations to commit to decolonizing menus & operations by joining the #FoodIsOurMedicine learning journey October 2025 to June 2026. Registration closes Oct. 24.

👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/foo...

#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Nutrition #Food

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"When we understand the relationships between food, the land, and culture, we recognize that food is fundamental to our well-being. Food is medicine. Yet, Indigenous knowledge and foods are all too often missing from health care settings across Canada. It's time for that to change." - Nourish

Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 1d

📣 Speaker announcement for the 2025 Food for Health Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites! Check out these wonderful speakers we are honoured to have join us.

Join us 👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/sym...

Early bird registration open until Friday, October 17. 2025.

#NourishSymposium2025

🍁 Sarah Stern is Executive Director at the Maple Leaf Centre for Food Security and Maple Leaf’s other social impact initiatives. She is responsible for management and operations of the Centre including building the portfolio of projects which it supports.

🥫 Rebecca Tran is founder of The Station Food Hub Company, a value-add food processing facility that upcycles local food into usable products for wholesale and retail customers. She is an experienced Dietitian with a demonstrated history of working in public health.

🌱 Michelle Stranges is a specialist for the Quality, Transformation, and Innovation team at St. Joseph’s Health Care London. She has worked in Food and Nutrition Services for the past 10 years and has led a variety of projects including supporting various service and production model changes in the kitchens, and process improvements. Since 2022, she has led the St. Joseph’s Nourish project through the National Nourish Anchor Cohort program.

🍎 Melanya Kushla, MS, RD, LD/N, CHES is the founder and CEO of Taste & Thrive, a virtual teaching kitchen program where she helps clients overcome perceived barriers to achieving a healthy lifestyle by enhancing their experience of eating, relationship with food, and facilitating self-discovery of their own drivers of nutrition-related behaviour. Melanya's specialty and background are in culinary nutrition and food is medicine (FIM) interventions for diet-related chronic disease and preventive health, with an integrative and holistic nutrition philosophy of care.

Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 1d

🌱 Welcome Credit Valley Hospital - Trillium Health Partners as the newest Canadian healthcare organization to join the #CoolfoodPledge taking bold steps to serve climate-friendly meals food for patients & planet. 🌎

More 👉 bit.ly/3ITLI35

#PlanetFriendlyMenus #SustainableHealthcare #PlanetaryHealth

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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 2d

For #WorldStandardsDay join #HealthStandardsOrganization on October 15 for a free webinar on how #healthcare can build resilient systems through climate-focused partnerships, leveraging standards to advance sustainable health care.

healthstandards.org/get-involved...

#PlanetaryHealth #Standards

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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 2d

Friday, October 17 is the last day for early bird registration for Nourish's 2025 Food for Health Symposium! Join us where #food & #healthcare meet for a week of rich, challenging, and meaningful dialogues! 🥬

👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/sym...

#NourishSymposium2025 #100MBetterBites

Nourish 2025 Food for Health Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites. Early bird registration closes this week!
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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you ✨ CASCADES ✨ for supporting Nourish's 2025 Food for Health Symposium as a Steward-level Sponsor! #CascadesCanada supports Canada’s healthcare community in transitioning towards high-quality, low-carbon, climate resilient care. 🌎 💚

Learn more 👉 cascadescanada.ca

#NourishSymposium2025

Thank you! Cascades Canada
CASCADES empowers the implementation of sustainable healthcare practices and policies in Canada. Cascades leverages and strengthens capacity across the healthcare community.
2025 Steward-Level Sponsor

Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 2d

Join Chef and Knowledge Keeper Jared @qwustenuxun.bsky.social Williams as he shares stories from his grandmother’s smokehouse, lessons from Elders, and teachings from the land and sea. 🐟

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#IndigenousFoodways #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #FoodIsOurMedicine

Why Traditional Foods Matter: A Conversation With Qwustenuxun | Skipper Otto

Join renowned Indigenous Chef and Knowledge Keeper Jared Qwustenuxun Williams as he shares stories and teachings from the land and sea.

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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 6d

"Changing worldwide diets could lead to 15% reduction in GHGs from agriculture, particularly reducing red meat. Increased crop productivity, reductions in food waste, and other improvements could bump that to 20%."

#EATLancet #PlanetaryHealth

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The Recipe for Avoiding 15 Million Deaths a Year Is to Fix Food, Scientists Say

Commission promotes a worldwide shift to healthier, predominantly plant-based diets

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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 6d

📣 It's that time again! More amazing speaker announcements for the 2025 Food for Health Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites! Stay tuned - there's more to come!

Won't you join us? Register today 👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/sym...

#NourishSymposium2025 #NourishLeadership #FoodforHealth

🍏 Carlota Basualdo-Hammond is a Registered Dietitian with almost 25 years in leading dietetic practice. Since 2011, she has been the Executive Director, Nutrition Services, Provincial Strategy Standards of Practice, @albertahealthservices . She is also currently the co-chair of the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force Advisory Committee.

🫘 Chris Marinangeli PhD, RD has a PhD in Food and Nutrition Science from the University of Manitoba and is a registered dietitian with over 10 years of experience across consumer packaged goods and the Canadian agriculture sector. His expertise includes national and international food regulations, regulatory affairs, and consumer insights and equity for developing strategies and tactics to meet business needs. He is Director, Centre for Regulatory Research and Innovation with @proteinindcan .

🫎 Dana Marshall is Regional Food Animator for Labrador with @foodfirstnl where she works to inspire and support community food action. She is Project Lead with the Labrador Anchor Collaborative, and is co-founder and co-host of the @ajuinatapodcast sharing powerful stories of change from Indigenous communities and allies where food and health meet. She is a powerful advocate for Indigenous and country foods and their role in culture, health, and community well-being.

🌍 Kerstin Plehwe is an award-winning entrepreneur, international board professional and powerful business visionary. As global CEO of @pan_international_ and President of PAN USA, a fast-growing health- and nutrition focused medical organization, her vision is to help people and organizations to win the war against diet-related diseases. She believes and has personally experienced that food can dramatically change lives and that it is the most underestimated and underused instrument in public health as of today.

Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 7d

📣 Speaker announcement for the 2025 Food for Health Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites! We are so pleased to be welcoming this insightful group of speakers.

Join us: early bird registration is open until Friday, October 17. 👉 lnkd.in/gTcm2qAR

Stay tuned - more to come! #NourishSymposium2025

Speakers announcement:
Zayna Khayat, Ph.D. is the Chief Program Officer at AMS Healthcare, where she leads the strategic design and delivery of the organization’s flagship programs in Artificial Intelligence & Compassion and the History of Healthcare.

Darcia Pope is VP Strategy, Innovation & Planetary Health at Vancouver Coastal Health where she draws on years of experience in healthcare including roles in change leadership, information technology, strategy and transformation.

Kaya Hill serves as the Lead of the Student Nutrition Program in the Department of Well-Being at Six Nations Health Services. Rooted in a commitment to community well-being and food sovereignty, Kaya works to increase access to nourishing, culturally relevant foods for children, families, and the wider community. Through initiatives such as the Ǫgyǫhsraniyǫ́hsdǫh Nourish Project, she focuses on building partnerships and weaving traditional Haudenosaunee foods and teachings into programs and services, supporting a healthier and more sustainable future for Six Nations.

Michael Yarymowich is Director, Sustainability at Aramark Canada where he is responsible for strategic planning, program development and reporting at the national level.

Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 7d

The second episode of #Ajuinata is now streaming! Special guest Denley Jacque shares his stories of hunting, fishing, family, and food. Buckle up for this episode full of laughter, memories, and reflections!

👉 🎧 bit.ly/4p533Xo

#AjuinataPodcast #StorytellingForChange #Persevere

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Two men standing with a cart with a cardboard box on top filled with packages of moose meat being donated to long-term care from Denley Jacque's hunt in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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CANE-ACIIE @cane-aciie.bsky.social · 7d

🌍 “Planetary health is public health.” A great read from Healthy Debate highlighting how groups like CANE are leading action to link health + environment.

Protecting people means protecting the planet. 🌱
#Nurses4PlanetaryHealth

🔗 healthydebate.ca/2025/10/topic/planetary-health-is-public-health

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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 8d

It takes a village! Thank you to ✨ @foodasmedicine.bsky.social ✨ for supporting the 2025 Nourish Food for Health Symposium as a root-level sponsor! 💚

Learn more about Food as Medicine Global and their upcoming annual Food Justice Conference - online Nov. 8-9, 2025.

👉 foodasmedicine.global

Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 9d

We are so excited to announce our first of several speaker announcements for Nourish's online 2025 Food for Health Symposium: 100 Million Better Bites! Stay tuned for more announcements!

Early bird registration is open until October 17.
👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/sym...

#NourishSymposium

🥗 Dr. Walter Willett, M.D., Dr. P.H., is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the most cited nutritionist internationally, and Co-Chair of the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission.

🌎 Lauren Baker is Deputy Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, where she leads program strategy and supports global initiatives focused on climate, biodiversity, food security, and equity.

🍊 Ajay Vir Jakhar is a citrus farmer, Chairman of Bharat Krishak Samaj (Indian Farmers Forum), and UN Food Systems Champion who has made his life’s mission to advocate for farmers’ prosperity, and a healthy, sustainable, inclusive, and equitable food system.

🧀 Hal Hamilton co-founded the Sustainable Food Lab and now serves as Senior Advisor. Hal’s career began as a commercial dairy farmer in Kentucky, and over the years he became a community organizer, led leadership development programs, succeeded Donella Meadows as the executive director of her Sustainability Institute, and co-founded the Academy for Systems Change.

Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 9d

Did you know that #foodsystems are responsible for about 1/3 of human-driven GHGs? It's time to transform #healthcare and take #DeliciousClimateAction through food.

Join us and learn how 👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/pla...

#EATLancet #PlanetaryHealth #FoodforHealth

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 13d

NEW – EAT-Lancet report: Three key takeaways on climate and diet change | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social @giulianaviglione.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/8XCDGp6

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The Good Food Institute @gfi.org · 10d

Check out @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social's fantastic, in-depth interview with GFI's new CEO, Nigel Sizer, and learn why Nigel sees his new role in the alternative protein space as “a chance to work at the root-cause level of the exact challenges I’ve spent my life tackling.”

Protein for a crowded planet: An interview with the Good Food Institute’s Nigel Sizer

For more than three decades Nigel Sizer has orbited the front lines of environmental policy. His résumé spans forest conservation in Amazonia, the launch of Global Forest Watch at the World Resources ...

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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to everyone who joined in for the inaugural National Day of Action on Planetary Health! Keep sharing those plant-forward meals - making a significant impact on global emissions and our health starts with the food on our plates. 🍽️

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#PlanetaryHealthDay

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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 10d

Today, October 6, is #PlanetaryHealthDay! Do you have a plant-forward planetary health-supporting meal, recipe, or food photo to share? Tag us #NourishLeadership and #PlanetaryHealthDay! 🌎 🍽️

Join tonight's webinar 👉 lnkd.in/gsvdkCuT
Learn more 👉 planetaryhealthday.ca

Join David Suzuki and planetary health leaders tonight to discuss practical actions and systems-level solutions to the environmental health crisis on this National Day of Action on Planetary Health.
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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 10d

Today is #PlanetaryHealthDay! Sharing reflections from Nourish Executive Director @hayleylapalme.bsky.social from last week's #StockholmFoodForum and #EatLancet 2.0 launch in Sweden. 🌎

"Let’s turn the public plate into public good." #NourishLeadership

👉 bit.ly/3IQSxmr

Dispatch from the EAT-Lancet Commission 2.0 Launch at the Stockholm Food Forum

This past week, the 2.0 EAT-Lancet Commission affirmed that we can produce enough food to feed the ten billion in a way that is just, sustainable, dignified, and that builds health.

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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 13d

This week Nourish is @eatfoundation.bsky.social Stockholm Food Forum for the release of the 2025 EAT Lancet Commission. The report highlights new evidence & practical ways to transform food systems to support health for all beings. We look forward to sharing our learnings! #SFF

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(L-R) Nourish Executive Director Hayley Lapalme with Dr. Walter Willett, 2025 EAT Lancet Commission Co-Chair, and Dr. Annie Lalande.

Nourish Executive Director Jennifer Reynolds and Dr. Annie Lalande, Vancouver Coastal Health sample innovative delights.

A panel of five people sit in front of a large magenta-pink screen with the white text 'Food Under Fire: Securing what Sustains Us.'

Hayley Lapalme and Ken Paul, Wolastoqey Nation at Neqotkuk.

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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 15d

💌 Sign the open letter to the Prime Minister
🥗 Share a photo of your in-patient or cafeteria plant-forward meal!
📸 Tag us in your photos and planetary health day events! #PlanetaryHealthDay #NourishLeadership

Learn more about planetary health and health care 👉 nourishleadership.ca/programs/pla...

Planetary Health - Nourish

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Nourish @nourishlead.bsky.social · 15d

On October 6, Nourish joins @cape-acme.bsky.social and a network of supporters in launching the first National Day of Action on Planetary Health for health professionals. Join us and take action!

👉 🌎 planetaryhealthday.ca

#PlanetaryHealthDay #NourishLeadership

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National Day of Action on Planetary Health - October 6, 2025
Nourish joins a network of supporters from coast to coat to advocate for the health and wellbeing of communities, and the integrity of our health care system.

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 15d

Tune in on October 3rd for the official launch of the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission. A major update to the science and what it means for our global food system.

🔗 Register for the livestream here: bit.ly/3Kg9SW8

A promotional card for the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission, officially launching on October 3 at Stockholm Food Forum.

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