Food and nutrition

Aboriginal health and nutrition

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Breakfast

Children who skip breakfast may lack sufficient vitamins and minerals including iron, calcium, zinc and vitamin B2.

Carbohydrates and the glycaemic index

While the glycaemic index (GI) can be a useful weight loss tool, it should not be the only consideration.

Child care and healthy eating

Childcare centres should provide healthy meals for your children.

Cholesterol - healthy eating tips

Replacing foods that contain saturated fats with foods that contain polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats will help to lower total blood cholesterol levels.

Food labels

Food labels carry useful information to help you make choices about food.

Food to have sometimes

Junk food should be kept to a minimum. It usually contains a lot of fat, salt or sugar.

Food variety and a healthy diet

If you eat a variety of good food, your diet will provide you with adequate nutrition.

Healthy eating - school lunches

Simple ways to make your child’s school lunch healthier.

Lunch box tips

Encourage children to help choose and prepare their own healthy snack or lunch

Lunch boxes - healthy ideas for school lunches

Healthy foods that are great for school lunch boxes.

Lunch boxes – healthy menu planner

Plan for health school lunches and snacks

Nutrition - recommended intake

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Nutrition - women's extra needs

Women’s nutritional needs change during menstruation, pregnancy, breastfeeding and menopause.

Organic food

Organic foods are farmed in a more environmentally sustainable way than conventional foods.

Protein

The human body can’t store protein, so it must be supplied daily from the foods we eat.

Sporting performance and food

Good nutrition and a healthy diet are essential to improving your sports performance.

Triglycerides

If a person habitually eats more kilojoules than they burn, they will have raised triglyceride levels in the blood.

Tucker talk tips - food for sport

Carbohydrate is the most important nutrient for athletes.

Vegetarian diets and children

Children can eat a vegetarian diet and stay healthy as long as their extra nutritional needs are met

Vegetarian eating

A well-planned vegetarian diet can meet nutritional needs during all stages of life.

Water - a vital nutrient

Women need about two litres (eight 250 ml cups) and men need about 2.6 litres (roughly 10 cups) of fluids a day to prevent dehydration.

See also Weight management