Your guide to healthy choices

An essential guide to how our body uses food to sustain us, and how we can tap into that to manage our weight. This guide supports you in understanding how your body works and why food choices impact our health

What is Nutrition & Healthy Eating?

Nutrition is the process of eating and drinking that provides the body with critical nutrients to nourish our bodies. These nutrients in the right amounts support our body to grow, fight off illness, make decisions, move, and live well. Good nutrition is important to support our body's many extremely complex systems.

Healthy eating gives our body its best chance at working well for our goals. This is because healthy eating includes a good balance of micro and macro nutrients that support healthy metabolism and physical processes in our body.

Top tips for food choices

Eat from the 5 food groups every day
Eat the rainbow – those colours in fruits and vegetables supply us with important nutrients
Eat mostly wholefoods that are less processed
Eat less of the discretionary group
Eat the amount that is right for your energy requirements
Water should be your number one drink choice
Have a plan for choosing healthy foods when out and about
Practice mindful eating
Eat less sugar
Reduce or eliminate alcohol from your diet
Know yourself – when you know your habits, and impulses, you can make plans to combat them