Create mass awareness on health cooking, diet: Ayush minister

Union Minister Shripad Naik today advised the National Institute of Naturopathy-Pune to take up mass awareness programmes across the country on a healthy way of cooking and on the importance of having a nutritious diet.
"I advise the National Institute of Naturopathy, Pune to conduct mass awareness programmes throughout the country, along with workshops on healthy cooking, to create a healthy diet culture among the public," the Minister of State for AYUSH said.
He was addressing the valedictory of the two-day National Natural Food Festival organised by the Pune-based NIN to promote natural food preparation, in the form of salads, juices, herbal tea among others.

Naik said that the NIN could also think of making this campaign a job oriented one in terms of providing short term training to people about preparation of food so that such people would run food outlets.
He said that it would create jobs as well as promote health, and hoped that the festival would increase awareness among the public on a healthy diet and its role in preventing and managing non-communicable diseases.
He said that naturopathy and yoga laid stress on diet, adding that studies had shown a link between obesity, irregular meal patterns and poor diet.