Nutrition is one of the most important aspects in a person’s life. What we eat can keep us vital or strain our health. Our meals also mean enjoyment and well -being, quality of life and together. Last but not least, what we eat has a significant impact on the climate, environment and animal welfare.
Andrea Schnattinger, Vice President of the Ecosocial Forum Viennaexplained: „With our focus “Eating well and cheap” we show people how they can eat healthy, enjoyable and sustainable at the same time without needing a lot of money.“
Fooding well is a win-win-win situation for people, animals and the environment, according to the biologist. “With the new edition of our brochure, we have also published a compact leaflet in easy language, which shows the key points very clearly and easily understandable. This way we can achieve even more people.”supplemented snowingrs.
Health is a high asset. Proper nutrition is an essential factor for a healthy life. Susanne Drapalik, doctor and president of the Samaritan Association Vienna therefore emphasizes on World Health Day: “Healthy eating should be accessible to everyone! Because poverty makes you sick. We therefore attach great importance to a balanced diet and fresh ingredients in the Samarit Suppent pot. This often also support organic products.
so drapalik.
The selection of what we eat also has enormous effects on the environment, climate and animal welfare. With the right diet you can not only do yourself good. Vienna Climate City Councilor Jürgen Czernohorszky leads to: “We want a good life for everyone in our city. This also includes a well -functioning supply of the population with high -quality, regional foods. Regional foods are a particularly important contribution to climate protection due to the short transport routes and also contribute to the goals that we have set as part of our climate block. promote where it is possible for us. “
High -quality foods are also produced directly in Vienna, according to the city council. “As the only city of the world worldwide, we can already supply ourselves with vegetables during the season.”
Vienna’s diverse urban agriculture Is a real local supplier and an important branch of local, sustainable Viennese economy with its high -quality products. Examples of this are the products of the umbrella brand “Town Vienna“, the Harvest -based gardener vegetables of the LGV or the City -owned food brand “Wiener Gusto”. Also in today’s joint action, high -quality, regional products from Vienna are on the menu: Fresh vegetables from the LGV and mountain lenses from the Vienna Gusto brand.
That it is particularly important to supply all people – especially those in precarious ones who otherwise cannot eat sufficiently and balanced – is in the best possible way Alexandra Gruber, managing director of Tafel Austriaconvinced: “We are working day after day to provide people with diverse, fresh, healthy foods in social institutions every day. Our second mission is the formation of consciousness: We want to inform people about how they can handle food and carefully with food so that they benefit people and end up as little as possible in the waste.”
In the previous year, the Tafel Austria has therefore published information sheets for fruit and vegetables that explain how which foods can be used, stored or durable.
Also the Meidlinger District head Wilfried Zankl Is on site at the campaign: “As a district politician, we are in contact with the people. We know that unfortunately many cannot afford to buy high -quality food or even eat. We are therefore particularly pleased that the Samaritan Association of Vienna contributes so well to the local care of people with its social market in Böckhgasse. again. “
so Zankl.
Good to eat – that means:
- G – Esund and enjoyable
- U – Melt- and climate-friendly
- T – ierfair
But how does that work? This explains the brochure “Eat well and cheap”. The new edition 2025 gives this Ecosocial forum Vienna Together with the Association for Nutritional Health PAN Austria out of here. It is based on the nutritionally based model of the “Planetary Health Diet”. The focus is on the model of the “G.U.T.-Teller”. This model shows very easily and understandably how to put together your meals healthy and sustainably. In order to be able to access this collected knowledge free of charge, the ecosocial forum Vienna has one Online knowledge portal furnished.
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