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Poor eating has a direct impact on our health and can stop us from functioning at our best. If you’re not eating well, it will have a direct and important effect on your ability to fight disease, heal from injuries, produce new blood cells and products, it affect the skin hair and eyes, your thinking and memory, protection from disease and general feeling of energy, mood and wellbeing.
A poor diet is one where intake of one or more of the important food groups is inadequate or missing. Not eating enough fruit and vegetables, having a high fat diet by regular take-away meals or frequent eating out, avoiding breads and cereals particularly wholegrain cereals, eating a vegetarian diest where the protein foods are not replaced adequately are all examples of poor diet. You don’t have to be overweight to have a poor diet in fact many people of healthy weight eat poorly and are at greater risk of long term ill health.
Some health problems linked with poor diet
If you’re serious about improving your lifestyle, now is the time to improve what and how much you eat. Healthy eating helps you keep up your energy, gives you a stronger immune system, improves your state of mind, decreases your risk of disease and, helps you lose weight, which in turn will help lower your blood pressure, blood fats such as cholesterol and triglyceride and reduce your type 2 diabetes risk.
Healthy Eating
Perhaps the most important factors in approaching any eating plan are about being able to follow the diet basics. More...
Dietary Guidelines
The Dietary Guidelines for Australian Adults recommend four simple points to healthy eating. Find out...
Phytoestrogens
The ideal diet is high in fibre, vegetables, fish protein, unprocessed cereals and grains, and mono-unsaturated fat, not saturated (animal) fat. Where do phytoestrogens fit in? Find out...
Milk – which one’s right for you?
These days, the milk section of the supermarket can be quite confusing. There’s so many options to choose from – low fat, skim, extra-fat, milk with omega-3, organic milk, soymilk and milk boosted with extra calcium. More...
Bread – what’s best for my health?
Wholemeal, rye, multigrain, high-fibre, gluten-free, sourdough, soy and linseed – there are lots of interesting breads to choose from these days. Bread is one of our oldest foods and even today is still considered a staple. More..
Menus for Healthy Eating
Menus with nutrition analysis suitable for women over 35 years, that are high in calcium, low in saturated fat and salt, moderate in sugar and high in fibre. Learn more...
Nutrition FAQs
Answers to the top 50 commonly asked questions from nutritionist Catherine Saxelby. Find out more...
Weight Management
Eating behaviour and weight management are complex issues and there are many different factors that can contribute to an individual becoming above their most healthy weight. More...
Nutrition Labelling: What Does it Mean?
A food label will tell you a lot of information if you know what you are looking for. Here we will try to explain labels, what they mean, how to choose the best products for your health and how to compare products. More...
Further Resources
 Healthy Eating (81.94 KB)
Nutritional Tips (68.22 KB)
Zest By Catherine Saxelby & Jennene Plumber
Choosing the Right Stuff : The Official Shoppers' Guide to Food Additives and Labels, Kilojoules and Fat Content By Food Standards Australia New Zealand
Nutrition Australia
Content updated December 4, 2009
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