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Want to learn more about nutrition? Here are some great resources to help you eat well and eat smart for life.

Australian Guide to Healthy Eating

The Australian Dietary Guidelines provide evidence-based advice on how to follow a healthy diet.You should include a variety of foods from each of the following five food groups every day:

Vegetables and legumes/beans
Fruit
Grain (cereal) foods, mostly wholegrain and/or high cereal fibre varieties
Lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds
Milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or alternatives, mostly reduced fat

Products high in added sugars, sodium and saturated fat are best avoided. And remember that water is the best beverage option available.

LiveLighter

LiveLighter aims to encourage people to eat well, be physically active and maintain a healthy weight. It incorporates the key messages of previous healthy lifestyle campaigns such as Go for 2&5® and and Find 30®. In 2014, the campaign extended to Victoria where it is delivered by Cancer Council Victoria in partnership with the Heart Foundation.

Label Reading

Understanding how to read nutrition information will help you to identify healthy choices that are:

Lower in energy (kJ)
Lower in saturated and trans fat
Lower in sugar
Lower in sodium (salt)
Higher in dietary fibre

This label reading guide is most suitable for processed and packaged foods such as bread, breakfast cereal, canned products, yoghurt and crackers.

Health Star Rating

The Health Star Rating is a front-of-pack labelling system that rates the overall nutritional profile of packaged food and assigns it a rating from ½ a star to 5 stars. It's a quick and easy way to compare between foods from the same category (e.g. cereal A against cereal B). The more stars, the healthier the choice!

Eating well for heart health

The Heart Foundation has a wide range of resources and tips to support individuals with cardiovascular disease to eat well and stay healthy. Check out the following links:

Healthy eating to protect your heart
Is salt bad for your heart?
Fats, oils and heart health

Diabetes and Nutrition

Diabetes Victoria and Diabetes Australia have a wide range of resources and tips to support individuals with diabetes to eat well and stay healthy. Check out the following links:

Pre-diabetes
Type 1 Diabetes
Type 2 Diabetes
Gestational Diabetes
Between-meal snacks
Healthy eating for older people

Food Watch

Food Watch is a nutrition blog founded by Accredited Practicing Dietitian Catherine Saxelby, who is passionate about food and making healthy eating easy. As a dietitian, author, and a busy mum of two, Catherine aims to help women eat well so they can attain and maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle while having plenty of energy. Through Food Watch, Catherine shares evidence based nutrition information and helps readers make sense of all the fad diets and weird super foods.

Food as Medicine

At a time when food and nutrition information is at an all-time high, there is a lot of confusion and misinformation out there about food based recommendations for wellness. Explore its current role in health and disease; expand your understanding of nutrition science and how it guides us on what and how much to eat for health; learn how to apply evidenced-based nutrition knowledge to guide what food can be used as medicine for you and your family.

This course is designed for anyone with an interest in food, nutrition and health and does not require previous knowledge or experience in science or health studies. To learn more about the course, click here.

The Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food have also published two recipe books as a practical guide on how to use Food as Medicine.

Using Food as Medicine: Exercise and the Gut
Using Food as Medicine: Fighting Inflammation

Food Switch App

Packaged foods can be surprisingly high in salt, saturated fat, added sugar and kilojoules/calories. FoodSwitch has a database of packaged foods to help you identify those that are better for you.

Healthy food and catering at work

At Monash we’re committed to supporting healthy food options on campus and empowering staff and students to make nutrition-savvy food choices.

Through Healthy Monash we’re looking to embed health and wellbeing into our University culture on a broad scale. This includes increasing the availability of healthy choices at University catered meetings and events through Monash Healthy Catering Panel, and championing community awareness for health-driven food options.

To achieve this we’ve created a simple workplace catering guide to help make healthy catering simple and easy for you.

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Fruit Addicts

Would you like to fuel productivity, enhance employee wellbeing and save staff time from snack hunting every day? Fruit Addicts Workplace Fruit Supply Specialist are your answer. To learn more about Fruit Addicts, click here.

Lite n' Easy

Lite n' Easy offer a $25 discount off their seven-day meal pack to new customers. Call 131512 and quote 'Monash Uni discount offer'.

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