Notes About GRAZ  - AUSTRIA

 (07-11 MAYIS 2012)

Within our Austrian partner “BİT”, we did the third meeting of the Project in Graz on the date of 07-11 May 2012 . As usual, we shared the experiences of eight countries in this Project meeting and took decisions on some issue related to the outputs.

These are the most significant shares that;

Partner in Romania carried out weekly sports and they have trained a large number of people willing to stay healthy and this is organized for both the adults and students.

Zumba fitness course that BIT (where our meeting took place in) organizes is really worth seeing. . Employees who can not find time to do sports can easily do Zumba dance to be considered by the experts as helping losing weights highly under the trainer’s observation in order to keep their bodies fit thanks to the Zumba course. This acitivity has created the impression of an institution combatting and paying attention to the obesity in our mind, and however we have contributed this course with this good excitiment.  

4-day meeting in Graz, as well as the shares, which are beneficial to health in Graz production (bio-production), we added some beneficial information into our memory by listening to one of the agricultural fruit and vegetable producers. One of them was undoubtedly Obsthof Fattingerhof,who produces delicious apple and apple juice in Graz, all participants could give the 10 total  scores out of 10 scores for its taste and appearance if there was a competion of taste in the area . . In terms of production methods, the yield to be fully effective without the use of fertilizers and pesticides had attracted attention. . The participants, have discovered in terms of the benefits of apples to human health; to lose weight, constipation, immune, cholesterol, and consumption of at least 2 units is prominent for heart-to-day requirements.

After this nice gains, we found ourselves in a foundation where it is produced. That’s the pumpkin seeds which we know to be beneficial to health, but many do not know about the usage of a product previously introduced. I believe that we have learnt a lot of things important from the products (Pumpkin seeds) obtained by Berghofer Mühle. It has added a new information into our foods line being beneficial to health. 

After these information bombs, for pumpkin seeds the first thing a participant can think undoubtedly would be what else it would be  except cookie . But as we've seen and listened to Berghöfer Mühle’presentations about pumpkin seed and besides we’ve tasted the beautiful salad sauces, oils and confections, we found out the answers of our own questions spontaneously. In particular, we have learnt pumpkin seed oil to be used for meals and salads is very beneficial for our health and to discover the most important detail of this benefit for us is  that it has about "0" calorie and its protein rate is so high, therefore It plays a role alternatively in the consumption of oil prohibited for fat and patients who are diabetic and have cholesterol, as a matter of fact this information has drawn off an unusual line in our mind .

One of our travel stops in Graz was a foundation where the vinegar having been recently declared as a healthy sauce by the experts in books and magazines is produced. That’s Fischerauer’s vinegar. In this plant the production of mustard were also made. Whereas the lemon is frequently preferred much more in Turkish cuisine for salads, to find out  the frequent use of vinegar in Austria was culturally an interesting acquisition for us.

As we’ve seen and heard, we have registered ourselves once again about “vinegar” that is the best friend to the vascular system of body. Fischerauer describing the benefits which makes it a panacea explained especially it is good for  anemia, asthma, respiratory for diseases.

And how would we forget the famous “Austrian dessert” ? We tasted this beautiful dessert with delicious sauce made of various apples.

Thanks to the contribution of the host institution, the participants of Project joined "Business Run Graz 2012" in terms of the overall perspective of the Project.

                                                                                                        posted by Mustafa Can HİÇYILMAZ