About Asahi Ward Dietary Improvement Promotion Member (nickname: Asahi Ward Healthmate)

As part of efforts to promote dietary education, Asahi Ward Healthmate (Asahi Ward Dietary Improvement Committee) is performing a puppet show called Onigiri Asahi-kun.
The story of the puppet show is that Asahi-kun, the mascot character of Asahi Ward, does not eat breakfast, goes to the country of vegetables and mushrooms to teach them the importance of having breakfast, and eats vegetables.
Until now, puppet shows have been performed at nursery schools, etc., but in the future, we will distribute videos of the puppet show "Onigiri Asahi-kun" on YouTube so that inhabitants of the ward can watch as many times as possible. In addition, we have created a short version that is easy to see, so we will also distribute videos there.

Puppet play "Onigiri Asahi-kun" (outside site)
Puppet play "Onigiri Asahi-kun (Short Version)" (outside site)

Under the slogan "Our health is our hands", we are a volunteer who works while deepening contact in the community with the aim of establishing a lifestyle that harmonizes nutrition, exercise and rest.
Oh, this food education class, we are engaged in various activities related to health promotion and eating habits for the working child-raising generation and the elderly. We sometimes plan walking and work, and at regular meetings once a month (except August), we plan workshops and facility tours with instructors and learn ourselves.

To become a Asahi Ward Health Mate, you must attend at least eight classes of the “Food Life Improvement Promotion Staff Training Course” held by Health and Welfare Division Health Promotion Section, Asahi Ward Office. In the training course, you can learn about health promotion, eating habits, exercise, and local health promotion for the lifestyle-related diseases prevention.
Do you not become member of improvement promotion (healthmate) such as eating habits, and do you not carry out local health promotion activity through meal? We look forward to the participation of a wide range of generations, regardless of gender or age.

Asahi Ward has set "Let's eat breakfast" as a priority dietary education goal. Therefore, we created a puppet show for Onigiri Asahi-kun, a mascot character of Asahi Ward, with rice balls. While interacting with small children and mothers, we communicate the importance of breakfast and vegetables through puppet shows.

In order to learn good eating habits and pass on food culture from childhood, we hold classrooms where parents and children can practice cooking together.

Under the theme of lifestyle-related diseases prevention and dietary education, we communicate the importance of dietary habits to all generations, from infants to the elderly, through cooking training.

Every year, themes such as "Let's eat breakfast" and "Let's eat 350g of vegetables a day" are decided, and the "Breakfast eating questionnaire" and "Asahi Shokuiku Luncheon Mat" are explained about the meal balance, and panel according to the theme We carry out display. Every year, many people visit the booth.

In order to extend healthy life expectancy, we provide information on lifestyle-related diseases and dietary habits to prevent dementia. Classes such as cooking training, measurement of salt concentration of miso soup at home, and locomo exercises are conducted.

We carry out walking for the purpose of health promotion and contact several times a year.

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