Ainsley Harriott and Kelly Holmes Put Healthy Eating on the M...

Ainsley Harriott has teamed up with Dame Kelly Holmes in Birmingham today, for a special cookery get-together to help educate athletes and young people attending university about the link between good nutrition and academic and sporting performance.

The celebrity chef and double Olympic Champion will team up at University College Birmingham as part of Kelly’s ‘On Camp with Kelly’ initiative. Ainsley will take the student athletes through a day of cooking demonstrations and practical workshops of quick, cheap and healthy recipes.

Kelly enlisted the help of Ainsley, as over the past six years of running her initiative, she says she has become aware of the issues faced by both athletes and young adults who go away to university with limited cooking skills and nutritional knowledge – which ultimately is detrimental to their general health and physical and mental performance. It is hoped that this campaign will help the ‘Pot Noodle Generation’ gain some valuable life skills for the future, and transform their relationship with food.

The ‘On Camp with Kelly’ initiative, which has been supported by Aviva since 2004, provides middle distance athletes the unique opportunity to benefit from the personal mentoring from Dame Kelly Holmes as well as educational get-together and camps and medical and other financial support. Distributed by Tubemogul.