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Nutrition
Good
nutrition is fundamental to achieving good health throughout our lives.
The food we eat as children affects how we grow and what we eat in
childhood can help prevent diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart
disease when we are older.
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Television advertising and the consumption of unhealthy food and
drinks by children
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Guide to Healthy Eating
Ensuring that a good range of healthy food is available in
stores in remote Aboriginal communities is fundamental to the good
health of people living in these communities. Resources are now
available to help stores provide, promote and monitor the sales of
healthy food. These resources include a freight improvement toolkit,
checklists for food to be stocked in stores and provided in
takeaways and a monitoring tool that uses scanned sales data to
assess a community’s consumption of key foods and nutrients.
These resources were produced by the Remote Indigenous Stores and
Takeaways project, that was jointly funded 2005-2008 by the
Australian government and governments of Western Australia, Northern
Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.
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Eat good food to be Healthy and Strong (A4 poster) (1.79Mb pdf)
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Educator's Booklet (3.40Mb pdf)
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Order Form - Resources developed by
the Remote Indigenous Stores & Takeaways project (RIST) (37.5Kb
pdf)
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Eat Well South Australia
Public Health Nutrition Action Plan 2006-2008
(1.78Mb pdf)
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Go for 2 fruit & 5 veg®
every day (Go for 2&5®)
Healthy Food in South Australian Health
Facilities
As part of the South Australian Government’s commitment
to preventing overweight and obesity, a policy is being
developed to ensure healthy food is available for staff and
visitors in all South Australian Government health services and
facilities, including central and regional offices.
The Minister for Health released a discussion paper,
Healthy Food in South Australian Health
Facilities
(241Mb pdf) in January 2008.
The consultation period (February and March 2008) involved
information sessions in both the metropolitan and country
regions as well as a food industry briefing. Work to finalise
the policy continues.
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Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is a major determinant of infant health. In
particular exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has a positive
impact on the incidence of gastrointestinal and respiratory
illness which can affect a baby’s ability to thrive. Low birth
weight and failure to thrive are linked to the onset of obesity
and chronic disease later in life. Breastfeeding offers
immunological protection and is particularly important for
pre-term and low birth weight babies offering protection for
these vulnerable infants.
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Review of Breastfeeding Literature (727Kb pdf)
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SA Breastfeeding Program Strategic and Action
Plan (790Kb pdf)
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Children’s, Youth and Women’s Health (CYWH)
Nutrition - ARCHIVE
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