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VicHealth - Publications: Healthy eating

This section features our research and programs that promote healthy eating and optimise nutrition.

Healthy eating research summaries

09.05.13

The Infant Program by VicHealth Research Fellow Dr Karen Campbell

In the lead up to Mother’s Day we have produced two videos about important research Dr Karen Campbell conducted with new mothers to establish healthy eating patterns.

20.10.10

Impacts of a localised food supply: What is the evidence?

This project seeks to document and evaluate to what extent localised food suppliers deliver environmental, social and economic gains and benefits.

Healthy Eating Programs

08.11.12

VicHealth local government action guides - Supporting healthy eating

This guide is one of ten outlining a range of evidence-informed actions that councils may consider when preparing their Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plans and other strategies.

02.05.11

Food for All 2005-10 program evaluation

The final report of the five-year VicHealth project highlights the significant gains in awareness of food security at local government levels and the strategies that helped reduce some barriers, and identifies the changes needed to reduce others.

22.06.10

Food For All - Resources for Local Governments

The ten micro-movies and information sheets are designed to assist local government in advancing a food security agenda. They describe ten broad categories of action to take to assist residents, especially those vulnerable to food security

Health eating reports and evaluations

05.04.11

Victorian Food Supply Scenarios

This report, from a VicHealth-funded study that created and projected three possible food supply scenarios to 2060, builds an evidence base for examining how cumulative changes in food systems can impact on the food that ends up on our tables.

05.04.11

Food-sensitive planning and urban design

This resource looks at how to create places that make it easy for people to access healthy and sustainable food in urban environments.

30.09.10

Healthy Club Canteens

VicHealth partnered with The Big Picture Strategic Services to undertake the Healthy Club Canteens project. This pilot program was established to identify ways in which community sporting clubs can provide a range of healthy food options in their canteens or food outlets.

Conference and seminar proceedings

30.07.10

Food for All forum: Making a Difference 2010

The theme of this year’s Food for All Forum was “Food for All: Making a Difference”, and focused on the practical ways to improve access to healthy food. Held in June, councillors, researchers, practitioners, planners, policy makers and food producers, as well as other interested members of the community, shared their ideas and discussed the practical and sustainable ways that councils have implemented Food for All.

31.07.09

Food for All forum: Securing the Future 2009

The Securing the Future forum featured Food for All project workshops, presentations from researchers and discussion on the successes and challenges in securing improved access to food for healthy eating. Held at the Swan Hill Performing Arts & Conference Centre on Monday 13 July 2009.