Initiative to promote healthy eating

• Nutrition Australia:

  (NGO)promotes healthy eating, which has a simple visual pyramid with each layer showcasing what you should eat and recommended

  
• Advantages nutrition Australia:

  • easy to read
  • promotes healthy eating
• Disdvnatges of nutrition Australia

  • no serving sizes
  • difficult for meals with mutliple foods
• Australian diatry guideline

  1. energy balance, physical activity = body weight
  2. food groups grains, vegetables, meat, dairy, water
  3. limit saturated fat - added salt - added sugars - alcohol
  4. encourage support breastfeeding 6month
  5. food hygiene, storage, preparation
• advantages of ADG

  • easy to understand
  • basic nutrition advice
• Disadvantages of ADG

  • no serving sizes
  • difficult to use for meals with multiple foods
• similarity:

  • both limit discretionary food (added salt, sugar, fat)
  • both aims to improve health status
• Difference:

  • one is visual of pyramid whereas the other is circle shaped
  • one is NGO whereas the other is government owned
• promotes healthy eating by:

  • nutrition seminars - better education on what to eat.
  • free recipes - contain a wide range of the 5 food groups which gives individuals the ingredients and steps to cook simple healthy meals.