Healthy eating
Healthy eating is a key building block to good health. It is about more than nutritious foods. It is also about the cultural and social significance of growing, cooking and sharing food.
- Almost 60,000 Australians in low-income working families go without meals or are food insecure.
- People who are unemployed were twice as likely to be food insecure.
- The risk of obesity is 20–40% higher in women who have low incomes and are experiencing food insecurity.
- Anybody can have times in their life when they become vulnerable to being food insecure.