14/10/2026
[WATCH] Tembisa Hospital celebrates National Nutrition Week 2026
Tembisa Hospital Dietetics unit held a celebratory function in honour of National Nutrition Week 2026 on Wednesday, 14 October 2026.
The function, held under the theme, "Creating Healthy Food Environment for Better Nutrition," allowed staff to have their Body Mass Index (BMI) screened, they were advised on how to create a healthy eating environment in the workplace, what to eat and how to prepare food.
Workplaces, schools, ECDs and families are encouraged to make healthier eating choices.
Workplaces can make healthy food environments by selling healthy food and including indigenous and traditional food options in workplace cafeterias and, by offering healthier meals and refreshment at meetings and events.
Schools and ECDs can encourage healthy lunch boxes to ensure the meals they are providing to learners are cooked healthy and are nutritionally balanced and also encourage school vendors to sell healthy meals and snacks.
Families must encourage healthy food environments by eating healthily at home, including indigenous and traditional food in their, eating food from their gardens and prepare healthy lunch boxes for their children.
Tembisa Hospital Dietatics Department encourages everyone to continue making sure that the environment they are in supports healthy eating.
takes place between 9 - 15 October annually.