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CPHCC to offer free healthy eating information sessions
In an effort to promote healthy eating and empower the Cobar community through information and education, the Cobar Primary Health Care Centre (CPHCC) will be running free group healthy eating information sessions over the next two months. Headed up by visiting dietician Carrie Ho from Bourke, the sessions are aimed at residents who have been newly diagnosed with diabetes, who have poorly controlled diabetes, who are overweight or struggle with obesity. “When I first started this role, I realised most of my clients share similar health conditions, especially Type 2 diabetes and excess weight, and I am repeating the education every day,” Ms Ho told The Cobar Weekly. “Some clients found it confronting when they were asked to share their diets and health concerns. “Therefore, group education came to my mind as a time-saving and cost-effective alternative for diabetes and weight management. “I think a group method can help create a more relaxing and conducive environment for people to learn and to reflect on their diets. “Having a group session also works as a social support group, encouraging the participants to interact and learn from each other,” she said. Ms Ho said during the program she will share with participants the most updated nutrition knowledge and provide practical skills to help fight diabetes and weight management. “Two of the most frequent questions I am asked are: “Why am I not losing weight even though I am not eating a lot?” and “How can I stop snacking?” Both of these problems will be addressed in
the sessions. The program will run over four, one hour sessions with the first session to concentrate on understanding diabetes and carbohydrates. During the session, Ms Ho will outline what diabetes is and its complications, what HbA1c and BGL targets are and what they mean, the dietary sources of carbohydrates and which foods are low GI. The second session will provide simple tips for healthy grocery shopping and eating including how to read food labels and recommended food portions. The third session concentrates on how to lose weight healthily and easily. Ms Ho will help participants to set realistic goals and expectations for weight loss, explain portion control and portion sizes of different food groups and offer strategies to help cut down snacking behaviours. The final session will offer more weight loss tips such as how to modify a recipe to be a healthier version, explain which are the healthiest cooking methods, discuss meal replacement products and give information about the positive and negative effects exercise and alcohol can have on a healthy diet. “I hope at the end of four sessions participants will be able to apply the knowledge and skills to daily life, to identify which is the healthier option, to cook a better meal for themselves and their family and understand that eating healthy can be fun and easy. “As a new rural resident, I understand how challenging it can be to access affordable and nutritious food here, but it shouldn’t be an excuse for not taking care of your health. “Eating healthy does not require any fancy
foods or excellent skills,” Ms Ho said. “There are so many nutritious and budgetfriendly options available in the local supermarket which will be mentioned in the sessions.” Anyone interested in joining the free sessions may contact CPHCC for more information.
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Dietician Carrie Ho will be heading up healthy information sessions in Cobar.
Hera Mine to cease production
Aurelia Metals recently announced that the Hera underground mine at Nymagee is expected to cease commercial production at the end of March 2023. In their ASX Announcement, Aurelia’s Interim Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Graham, said the decision was made following a re-optimization of the life of mine plan. Upon the cessation of production, Hera’s surface facilities will transition to Care and Maintenance before being utilized by their nearby Federation Project. The revised mine plan will sequence the highest value ore within the remaining available ore sources to maximise cash generation from the remaining mineral inventory at Hera. Mr Graham said the cessation of mining comes earlier than previously planned, but was necessary following two quarters of negative cash flow. “I am confident our revised mine plan will return Hera to positively contributing to the cashflow of the Company over its remaining operating life,” Mr Graham said. “We don’t make this change lightly. “We understand this is challenging news for our employees, contractors and the local community, but a decision that has to be made in the interests of Aurelia’s shareholders.” He said they were consulting with the Hera workforce to explore options to redeploy as many workers as possible to their Peak operations, where vacancies exist, and also further afield to their Dargues Mine (near Canberra). “Despite these redeployment activities, there will be some redundancies at the cessation of Hera’s operations,” Mr Graham said.
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