You are a little embarrassed before the concepts of food "natural", "functional" either "biologic"? You do not know anymore where to give the head when the time comes to choose the food that is truly good for health and for the environment? You do wish to vary your food? For the eleventh consecutive year, the expo to Eat Health comes back you with his / her / its answers and his / her / its suggestions to improve and to ornament your meals all along the year.
This time, the promoters chose to aim the reflectors on the children and the family. Under the presidency of honor of Mr. André Chagnon2, the event will offer the young and their families of numerous activities as well as a crowd of things to facilitate the adoption of healthy food habits and one life style in harmony with the environment.
Before the rise of the obesity, the allergies and the of type 2 diabetes at the young, the persons responsible of this lounge of the new tendencies in food and in health wanted to offer the tracks and tools to the parents. They wish to motivate the young while also making them discover the pleasures of a good food.
The instigator of the event, Renee Frappier, specifies that "the parents will find at the expo a multitude of ideas of meal, of boxes to buffet lunch, conferments health and to adopt concrete attitudes in family." She / it will enliven besides, in company of the comedian and animator Joel Legendre, a shop on the taste, intended to the children.
Joel Legendre, that enlivens the 10 years since Operation Child Telethon Sun, is also one of the two official spokesman of the exhibition this year, a task that he / it shares with Helen Baribeau, very known dietitian-nutritionist.
"It is a gold opportunity to familiarize itself / themselves with the natural food, the functional food and the food biologic through numerous tastings, conferences and culinary demonstrations. It is also a luck to learn on the ways to make ecological choices", specify Helen Baribeau.
Helen Baribeau will pronounce a conference on the food and immunity at the children, in the setting of the lounge that will be held the 14, March 15 and 16, 2008, to the Convention center of Montreal, and March 29 and 30 in the center of the conventions of Quebec. Let’s underline that the entry to the expo, as well as the access to the various activities that will hold themselves of it, will be free for the children of less than 12 years.
