Wartime cooking scheme to battle Bundaberg bulge
The Bundaberg Regional Council in southern Queensland hopes a cooking program set up in World War II will help target the region's high obesity rates.
Sports and recreation coordinator David Field says almost 500 residents will have nutritional cooking classes at the 'ministry of food' van in the next 10 weeks.
He says the program has a long history of improving health.
"It's an inspiration taken from the UK's first ministry of food, which was set up in the Second World War to establish a network of food advisers to teach cooking and educate the public around food and nutrition," he said.
"It was more around rationing of food but today it's more about people not understanding food at all, and that's an impact through the rise of busy working families and the popularity of convenience food.
"Today it's about educating people about understanding food and coming up with some basic cooking skills and good nutrition."