Healthy eating
Why invest in healthy eating?
Healthy eating is more than just eating nutritious foods. It also encompasses the inherent cultural, economic and social factors of buying and preparing food, and sharing it with others.
VicHealth promotes and invests in healthy eating because it is necessary for maintaining physical health and mental wellbeing. It is also important because poor diet and nutrition lead to ill health and high financial costs.
Irregular access to safe, nutritionally adequate, culturally acceptable food from non-emergency sources is know as food insecurity.
Food security broadens the traditional concept of hunger and embraces a systemic view of the causes of hunger and poor nutrition within a community, while identifying the changes necessary to prevent their occurrence. The notion of ‘food security’ underpins VicHealth's investments in healthy eating.
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Future Foods Conference
Speaker presentations are now available from this years conference heald at The Melbourne Museum 24-25 July 2007.
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Research
VicHealth has funded a range of research into healthy eating. Recent research investments have focused on food insecurity.
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Advocacy
VicHealth works with federal, state and local governments, and non-government organisations, to advocate for policy and program reform to promote healthy eating.
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Publications, reports and evaluations
This section includes a selection of publications, conference presentations and evaluation reports about healthy eating, supported by VicHealth.
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Food for All program
VicHealth funds local councils to improve access to nutritious food and to influence the cultural, social, economic and environmental barriers poor and disadvantaged communities face in eating healthily.
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Useful links
Links to external websites.