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Health > Wellbeing > Nutrition > Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating

23rd Oct 2010
    • Australian Guide to Healthy Eating: Information about the amounts and kinds of food you need each day to get enough of the nutrients essential for good health and wellbeing.
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    • Better Health Channel has an alphabetical list of all the food facts articles, plus health promoting recipes.
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    • Dietary Guidelines for Australian Adults: Produced by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Dietary Guidelines for Australian Adults highlight the groups of foods and lifestyle patterns that promote good nutrition and health. The use of the guidelines will encourage healthy lifestyles that will minimise the risk of the development of diet-related diseases.
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    • Dietitians Association of Australian (DAA). A nutrition focused organisation with a website providing up-to-date information. The Nutrition A-Z section is comprehensive. Check also the Healthy eating self-assessment to see if dietary changes are indicated.
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    • Food and Nutrition from Health Insite covers a range of subjects, from the nutritional benefits of particular foods to food safety and medical conditions affected by diet, such as diabetes and heart disease.
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    • Food Standards Australia New Zealand (formerly ANZFA) protects the health and safety of the people in Australia and New Zealand by maintaining a safe food supply. Find out about what's in food (e.g. additives, GM food, caffeine, percentage labelling, food irradiation, mercury in fish), food recalls and safety, check ANZFA's media releases and much more.
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    • Foodwatch. The site for information on healthy food, nutrition, food labelling, weight reduction and more.
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    • Nancy Frawley's Healthy Eating. Linking you to nutrition and fitness info with one of the largest collections of healthy online eating/fitness links.
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  • Nutrition Australia. A non-government, non-profit community based organisation that aims to provide scientifically based nutrition information to encourage all Australians to achieve optimal health through food variety and physical activity. Check 'Nutrition in Later Life' among many valuable fact sheets.
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