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Eat for Health: educator guide (2013)

Description

This guide is intended for use by dietitians, nutritionists, primary and secondary school teachers and other health educators. The guide is best used when discussing food choices that minimise the risk of developing diet-related conditions and contribute to overall health in the long term. It aims to provide more detailed information on the amounts and types of foods for optimal health and wellbeing.

Specifically, this document provides nutrition educators with information on the Eat for health program including:

• an understanding of the evidence-base used to develop the Eat for health program
• how to make use of materials in the Eat for health program for counselling, classroom teaching, community education, health promotion, menu evaluation and development
• how to guide healthy eating patterns, develop healthy eating plans and what these look like.

In addition to the Educator guide the following resources are included in the Eat for health program:

• Australian dietary guidelines
• Infant feeding guidelines
• a review of the evidence to address targeted questions to inform the revision of the Australian dietary guidelines (Evidence Report)
• a modelling system to inform the revision of the Australian guide to healthy eating (Food Modelling System)
• Infant feeding guidelines literature review
• Australian guide to healthy eating
• Summary gooklets
• brochures on healthy eating for adults, children, infants and during pregnancy
• promotional posters targeting the general Australian population and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.

The Eat for health program has been developed as a single comprehensive program relevant to all healthy Australians to ensure they can make healthy food choices.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

Contact details

Nutrition Team
Senior Project Officer
National Health and Medical Research Council
GPO Box 1421
Canberra ACT 2601
Ph: (02) 6217 9466
Fax: (02) 6217 9100
Email: dietaryguidelines@nhmrc.gov.au

Publications can be ordered at:
National Mailing and Marketing
Ph: (02) 6269 1080
Email: health@nationalmailing.com.au

Links

• View resource: Eat for Health: educator guide
• View information: Eat for Health: Australian dietary guidelines
• View website: Eat for Health

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