Australia's Food and Nutrition

Contents

• Preliminary material (102K PDF)
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
• Chapters
  1. The national context (179K PDF)
     1. The people and the land
     2. The policy environment
  2. The food supply (162K PDF)
     1. Primary production
     2. The food processing industry
     3. The available food supply
     4. Nutrient composition of the food supply
     5. 'Functional foods' and active non-nutrients
  3. The selling and buying of food (1-2: 58K PDF; 3-6: 112K PDF)
     1. The food retail market
     2. The price and cost of food
     3. Food acquisition and household expenditure
     4. Sources and extent of consumers' nutrition information
     5. Consumer attitudes and beliefs and their effect on behaviour
     6. Nutrition education
  4. Food and nutrient intakes (102K PDF)
     1. Australian dietary surveys
     2. Food intakes
     3. Food composition data for nutrient analysis
     4. Nutrient intakes
     5. Food safety and hygiene
  5. Nutritional status and health (1-3: 64K PDF; 4-6: 94K PDF)
     1. Growth and nutritional status
     2. Dietary inadequacies
     3. Which are the diet-related diseases?
     4. The role of diet in diet-related disease
     5. Morbidity and mortality associated with diet-related disease
     6. Quantifying the relationship between diet and disease
  6. Nutrition and health inequities (66K PDF)
     1. Social determinants of nutritional status
     2. Population subgroups with excess risk of poor nutrition
  7. Food and nutrition monitoring and surveillance (49K PDF)
     1. Overview: a practical strategy
     2. Characteristics of a national food and nutrition monitoring and surveillance strategy
     3. Goals and targets
     4. How existing national data collections can be used
     5. What else is needed?
• End matter
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix A: Selected readings on dietary intake data collection methodology (14K PDF)
    • Appendix B: Estimated available supply of nutrients for individual foods and groups 1990­91 (14K PDF)
    • Appendix C: Prevalence of breastfeeding in Australia 1950 to 1991­92 (174K PDF)
    • Appendix D: Recommendations of the workshop to revise nutrition goals and targets Melbourne, 29 Jan 1991 (54K PDF)
  • Indexes
    • Index: A-I (122K PDF)
    • Index: I-Z (119K PDF)

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