Good nutrition is fundamental to achieving good health throughout our lives. The food we eat as children affects how we grow and what we eat in childhood can help prevent diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease when we are older.

• Start Right Eat Right
  Child care centres have been acknowledged as leading the way in encouraging children to develop healthy eating habits. The Start Right Eat Right Award Scheme is a SA Health healthy eating initiative. It requires child care centre staff - a director and cook - to be trained in menu planning, childhood nutrition and food hygiene. Awarded Start Right Eat Right (SRER) centres provide a menu which meets 50% of a child’s recommended dietary intake. SRER team members are available to offer ongoing nutritional advice and support for all awarded centres.

• Go for 2 fruit & 5 veg® every day (Go for 2&5®)

• Healthy Food and Drink Choices for Staff and Visitors in SA Health Facilities Policy
  As part of the South Australian Government’s commitment to preventing overweight and obesity, a policy has been released to ensure healthy food is available for staff and visitors in all South Australian Government health services and facilities, including central and regional offices.
  The policy is mandatory and applies to all situations where food and drinks are provided including cafeterias, kiosks, cafes, shops, vending machines, catering for functions, meetings and client education programs as well as fundraising, advertising and sponsorship. Implementation and associated contractual requirements commenced as of 1 April 2009. Changes required were phased in over an 18 month implementation period with compliance required by 1 October 2010. Policy details and resources are now available:
  
  - Healthy Food and Drink Choices for Staff and Visitors in SA Health Facilities Policy (PDF 508 KB)
  
  - Educational Poster A4 (PDF 486Kb)
  
  - Educational Poster A4 - for Aboriginal groups (PDF 324Kb)
  
  - Educational Poster A3 (PDF 543Kb)
  
  - Educational Poster A3 - for Aboriginal groups (PDF 377Kb)
  
  - Food and Drinks Guide (PDF 396Kb)
  
  - Fact Sheet 1 - Getting ready for healthier choices (PDF 93Kb)
  
  - Fact Sheet 2 - Recommended supply of food and drinks (PDF 92Kb)
  
  - Fact Sheet 3 - Summary of Nutrient Criteria (PDF 90Kb)
  
  - Fact Sheet 4 - Healthy Catering Ideas for meetings, functions and events (PDF 121Kb)
  
  - Fact Sheet 5 - Healthy Fundraising Ideas (PDF 110Kb)
  
  - Flyer DLL (PDF 157Kb)
  
  - Flyer DLL - for Aboriginal groups (PDF 182Kb)
  
  - Frequently asked questions (PDF 74Kb)
  
  - Promotional Poster - A4 (PDF 103Kb)
  
  - Promotional Poster - A3 (PDF 109Kb)

• Television advertising and the consumption of unhealthy food and drinks by children

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Guide to Healthy Eating
  Ensuring that a good range of healthy food is available in stores in remote Aboriginal communities is fundamental to the good health of people living in these communities. Resources are now available to help stores provide, promote and monitor the sales of healthy food. These resources include a freight improvement toolkit, checklists for food to be stocked in stores and provided in takeaways and a monitoring tool that uses scanned sales data to assess a community’s consumption of key foods and nutrients.
  
  These resources were produced by the Remote Indigenous Stores and Takeaways project, that was jointly funded 2005-2008 by the Australian government and governments of Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.

 - Eat good food to be Healthy and Strong (A4 poster) (PDF 1.79MB)

 - Educator's Booklet (PDF 3.40Mb)

 - Order Form - Resources developed by the Remote Indigenous Stores &  Takeaways project (RIST) (PDF 37.5Kb)