Child nutrition
Links - Fruit + Veg program

Looking for more information. Try any one of the links below to learn more about healthy eating and the agencies that promote healthy lifestyles.

Better Health Channel
This website has a great selection of healthy recipes, tips for healthy living and a list of hyperlinks to a number of health related websites.

Creating a Stir
This website has been designed to provide resources and information for teachers and school canteens. It deals with many issues including how to ensure healthy menus are profitable. It has a good selection of fact sheets on nutrition and a number of articles answering common questions about the Dietary guidelines for Australians and the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating.  The online magazine Virtually Healthy is an excellent source of useful articles about nutrition in schools.

Dole5ADAY
Although this is an American website, the section for kids is easy for younger students and there is sound information on eating fresh fruit and vegetables. There is also a teachers’ section and a section on healthy school canteens.

Fresh for Kids
This is a great site for primary students with interactive games and easy to understand information on a comprehensive range of fruits and vegetables. This range of information provided makes this site also valuable for secondary students.

Go for your life Healthy Canteens Advisory Service
The Department of Human Services has established a Go for your life Healthy Canteens Advisory Service, funded by the Victorian Government's Community Support Fund, which aims to support schools with primary school-age children to provide and promote healthy food choices.

The school canteen or food service plays a positive role not only in the provision of nutritious food to children, but also in encouraging children to make healthy food choices, complementing the nutrition knowledge taught in the classroom and promoting a school culture of healthy eating that can extend into the wider family and community.

Healthy Eating Club
This site features reliable information on nutrition and diet. In the section ‘HEC Resources and Links’, is an online book by Professor Wahlqvist and Professor David Briggs, which gives lots of simple information on nutrition. Contains excellent articles and fact sheets from allergy and intolerances to weight loss as well as recipes. In particular, there is an interesting article on cooking skills and the decline in cooking skills over the past few decades. Teachers might also wish to register to receive their newsletter online.

Kids Food Club
This site has been created as part of the National Child Nutrition Project funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. It features stories, games, interviews, healthy recipes for lunchboxes and a range of other activities. There are lots of opportunities for children to actively contribute to the site. This is well worth a visit and is particularly useful for middle and upper primary students.

Nutrition Australia
This website has a great range of articles and fact sheets on a range of nutrition issues. Students are able to e-mail questions and receive answers.

State Canteen Associations

New South Wales School Canteen Association

Western Australia School Canteens’ Association

The National Heart Foundation
This great site provides comprehensive information about nutrition and diet, prevention and treatment of heart disease, the benefits and risk of consuming various foods and ingredients, healthy recipes, the tick program and statistics on disease. It also has a school section, which provides information on its various health promotion campaigns and information on topics written for students.

VHETTA (Victorian Home Economics and Textiles Teachers’ Association)
VHETTA provides information, support and professional development activities for both primary and secondary teachers who teach CSF Health and CSF Technology, Prep-Year 10. This not-for-profit association also produces a wide range of curriculum support material for CSF and VCE courses and publishes newsletters and journals for its members.

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