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Lesson 1, Topic 29
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Current Dietary Guidelines (Australian)
Iconic Health Academy 28/04/2024
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- In 1998, the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services established the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
- The most recent dietary guidelines available in Australia are provided by the National Health & Medical Research Council: the Australian Dietary Guidelines (2013) and the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (2013)
- They focus on the Five Food Groups and build on previous food guides such as the Healthy Eating Pyramid and the 12345+ Eating Plan
- Originally the Five Food Groups included a group containing sugars, salt, fats and oils. This group has now been removed as it does not contain health-promoting foods essential to health. Certain types of fats and oils, however, are an essential part of the diet but are mostly obtained from foods found in the other groups (except for cooking oils, which should be obtained from healthy sources such as olive oil and coconut oil)