Author embarks on tour warning people about lab to table diet

A leading author and nutritionist is coming to Toowoomba and wants to encourage the Garden City to plant more food and less flowers to change their unhealthy ways.

PLANT, EAT, REPEAT: Leading author and nutritionist, Cyndi O'Meara is coming to Toowoomba next month and wants to encourage the Garden City to plant more food and less flowers for a healthier future. Pictures: Contributed

With an impressive 40 years experience behind her, nutritionist and best-selling author of “Changing Habits Changing Lives” Cyndi O’Meara is a health crusader on a mission to get more Aussies growing their own produce, eating whole foods and kicking processed food to the kerb.

The whole foods gardening guru is coming to Toowoomba next month to share her passion for optimal health and living as well as to share an important message with the Garden City.

“People need to understand that when it really comes down to it, your government is not going to help you, true health and wellbeing has to come from a community level,” she said.

“I have never understood why Toowoomba plants so many flowers for the carnival instead of planting more fruit and vegetables, produce the community can really benefit from. It wouldn’t be hard with all the wonderful green space you have up there in Toowoomba. Instead of flowers, let’s plant food.”

Leading author and nutritionist, Cyndi O'Meara is coming to Toowoomba next month and wants to encourage the Garden City to plant more food and less flowers for a healthier future.

Ms O’Meara’s tour will be focusing on the dangers of lab to table and how a large percentage of the food we consume in the 21st century has been smothered with lab produced additives and preservatives that can prove to be harmful to our health.

“Auto immunity diseases have been ramping up over the last 10-15 years and in 2018, 38 to 40 per cent of Australian kids were diagnosed with chronic disease and this number is growing,” she said.

“New research is showing these health concerns are linked to the destruction of the microbiome and the fact our food is no longer nutritious and delivering what our bodies need anymore. That’s why I encourage everyone to grow their own food and eat organic wherever possible.”

Ms O’Meara said it was important communities like Toowoomba support local farmer’s markets and find out what foods are grown locally here in the Darling Downs region.

“By becoming more local than global, getting involved in your community gardens and starting to grow your own food again you can start to have more energy, reduce your risk of chronic health conditions and help the environment.

“These small steps to changing the quality of food is the easiest way to go, but also ensuring your body is filled with nourishment to thrive.”

Cyndi O’Meara will be speaking in Toowoomba on Wednesday, August 4 from 6-8pm at the Econo Lodge Toowoomba Motel & Event Centre.

Tickets and further information is available here.