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Food for health - dietary guidelines for children and adolescents (2003)

Description

This brochure is designed to be an easy reference outlining the basic dietary guidelines for children and adolescents in Australia. It contains the key messages from the 2003 Dietary guidelines for children and adolescents in Australia incorporating the infant feeding guidelines for health workers report, and also includes the Australian guide to healthy eating (a guide for daily food choices), recommended numbers of serves and descriptions of serving sizes.

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When to use this resource

This easy to read resource could be provided to parents to help them understand the needs of their children. The resource could also be provided to adolescents to help them develop their own good eating habits.

This is not an Indigenous specific resource.

Contact details

National Health and Medical Research Council
GPO Box 1421
Canberra ACT 2601
Ph: 1300 646 72
Fax: (02) 6217 9100
Email: nhmrc@nhmrc.gov.au

To order copies of this resource

National Mailing & Marketing
Ph: (02) 6269 1000
Freecall: 1800 020 103

Links

• View resource: Food for health - dietary guidelines for children and adolescents (PDF - 1.1 MB)
• View information: Dietary Guidelines for all Australians
• View website: National Health and Medical Research Council

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