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16 minute video / DVD Cost: $99.00 includes GST

This best selling video on The Healthy Eating Pyramid, was made in conjunction with Nutrition Australia. It covers the Healthy Eating Pyramid and the Healthy Eating Pyramid for Lacto-ovo Vegetarians, focussing on the three sections, Eat Most, Eat Moderately and Eat in Small Amounts. The need to reduce the intake of saturated fat, salt and refined foods and to increase the intake of complex carbohydrates is emphasized, along with the importance of regular activity or sport to be part of everyone’s healthy lifestyle. Video support notes are also included.

Video
Cost: $25.00 includes GST

Preparing nutritious food for children is a high priority for parents and child carers. This video will help you find out:

• the foods essential for children’s growth and development
• how many serves of these foods children need whilst in day care
• how to use the Australian Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents to plan menus
• the role of parents and carers in educating and encouraging children to develop healthy eating habits
• how child care centres can develop a nutrition policy to ensure nutritious food, food hygiene and meal time environments, reflect the expectations of parents and staff

This video has been produced so staff can see the importance of their role and responsibility in providing essential foods for the children in their care. Parents too, will find plenty to help them develop good eating habits in their children.

15 minute video
Cost: $49.50 includes GST

It’s important to remember that food refusal is a common behavior in young children and is a normal part of growing up. The family feud food video recognizes how frustrating this can be and explores the reasons why.

Family feud food will give you practical ideas to help kids try new foods. At the same time you will learn that some of the messages we send tour kids around food and eating may not be very helpful, the video will suggest better ways to encourage kids to eat well.
The video also includes facilitator notes and a parent booklet.

175 illustrated pages
Cost: $24.95 includes GST

How do we know when someone is overweight or obese? What is the normal level of body fat for children during the growing years? What can you do if your child is overweight? This book gives the facts about body fat, good eating and healthy activities, and looks at the risks, the definitions, and at what is ‘normal’ in a society obsessed with slimness, yet where people grow steadily fatter. ‘A matter of Fat’ is packed with practical solutions to help families facing weight problems. The guidelines provided are sensible, enjoyable and based on sound science.

Cost: $9.95 includes GST

The best way to control your weight is to balance your ‘energy in’ with your ‘energy out’. The Australian Calorie Counter helps you figure out how much energy you consume in the food you eat as well as suggesting ways to burn it off.

Featuring:

• Calorie counts for thousands of fresh and packaged foods
• Advice for long-term weight loss
• The most effective dietary guidelines
• Practical exercise advice

This book is the essential guide for planning what to but and what to eat.

138 illustrated pages
Cost: $22.95 includes GST

Breast, bottle, bowl is the only book you’ll ever need to ensure your child gets the best start to life – a healthy diet. This invaluable, common sense guide takes all the anxiety and mystery out of feeding babies and children by giving parents sound, practical advice in an easy to follow form. It shows how a good diet really can take care of itself with a basic understanding of nutrition and a few simple guidelines.

Breast, bottle, bowl encourages an enjoyable, stress free approach to feeding babies and young children including information on:

• Successful breastfeeding                     
• Weaning and bottle feeding
• Introducing solids
• Hygiene in food preparation
• Reasonable expectations about quantities
• Coping with fussy eaters and food refusal

115 pages
Cost: $22.00 includes GST

By the time our kids leave school in year 12, they have eaten food at school for approximately 2400 days.  Providing a variety of healthy food that kids enjoy becomes a constant challenge for parents packing lunch boxes and for those managing school canteens. 

Canteen Cuisine is a recipe book for school canteens which has been collated by the Western Australian School Canteen Association and is sponsored by HBF as part of their ‘Action for Healthy Kids’ initiative. 

Recipes yield 10, 25 or 50 serves, thereby catering for school canteens large and small.  Many of the food ideas and recipes are equally suitable to serve at home and have been chosen for their ease of preparation and simplicity of ingredients.

Canteen Cuisine is an ideal resource for schools providing healthy, fresh ideas that will add zing to their menus.

Cost: $16.95 includes GST

Published in December 2001, 'Calm Eating' draws together Dr Rick Kausman's own writings, inspirational quotes from some of his clients who are personally dealing with issues of weight management, and quotes from other writers who share Dr Kausman's philosophy of discarding the diet mentality and learning to look at food and yourself in a positive and nurturing light.

You can dip into 'Calm Eating' at random, or read through it page by page – in either case, the warm, witty and wise advice inside this book will motivate and inspire you to really enjoy one of life's great pleasures – the food we eat.

RRP: $14.95 includes GST

This easy to use shoppers guide for Food Standards Australia New Zealand answers all of your questions about food labelling and food additives. It includes the official list of food additives in both alphabetical and numerical order for easy reference. The book also includes sections on:

A new and extensive kilojoule and fat counter lists the kilojoule, calorie and fat content of common foods and drinks.

• Major allergens and food intolerance
• GM food
• Novel foods
• Folic Acid and pregnancy
• Mercury in fish

104 colour pages
Cost: $14.00 includes GST

Making interesting meals for one or two people has long been a challenge, this book sets out to simplify the task for beginners and inspire the experienced. Included are recipes for traditional favourites as well as recipes using current food trends. At the same time the emphasis is on using a minimum number of ingredients and basic equipment. “To enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods every day” is the first principle of the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating. Recipes in this book promote these guidelines through the use of fresh and processed foods. We hope these recipes will inspire you to try new dishes as you cook for one or two.

Cost: $14.95 includes GST

Meet Jack. Jack is an ordinary boy who lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary Australian suburb. Like many children, Jack likes playing computer games, watching television and eating take-away food. Jack is also seriously overweight. But this doesn't make him any less ordinary. Presently 25 per cent of Australian children are seriously overweight and, if current trends continue, this figure is predicted to rise to 40 percent by the year 2020.

Through a series of involving and extremely funny fictional monologues, bestselling children's author Andy Griffiths brings Jack's world alive, highlighting the issues, challenges and struggles that Jack and his parents face as they attempt to create a healthier lifestyle in an environment where the over-consumption of calorie-dense foods and a lack of exercise has become the norm. Supplemented with practical advice from both a personal trainer and a nutritionist, this book provides concerned parents with an invaluable resource for creating a healthier, more vital life for both their children and themselves.

This is a book that parents can - and should - read themselves, but it's also a story that they can share directly with their children. Andy's track record and fan base give him real credibility among children, and in Jack's story we have the perfect parable for parents and children alike. Each chapter focuses on a specific challenge in Jack’s life, and is complimented with quotes from reputable health professionals, statistics and practical tips on dealing with these issues. A very motivating, light hearted and useful resource which offers easy and great advice.

Read an extract from Fast Food and No Play Make Jack a Fat Boy

208 coloured pages

Cost $35.00 includes GST

Fit Kids is a practical guide for raising healthy and active children.  This book is a comprehensive reference for parents providing easy-to-understand information on nutrition and physical activity for children from birth to 18 years.

• Shows how to choose the right kind of exercise and meals, with easy-to-follow activities and recipes
• Covers every stage of a child’s development from birth to adulthood
• Provides sensitive, practical advice on helping youngsters at risk of becoming overweight
• Written by a team of medical experts

Cost: $39.95 includes GST

The Sanitarium Nutrition Service has teamed up with the Victorian Home Economics and Textiles Teachers' Association to produce a new teachers' resource. This full-colour, beautifully designed book is a celebration of fresh, delicious and healthy food. Food Challenges invites students to appreciate great food, have a go at making it themselves and – above all – take lifetime ownership of their health. Designed for upper primary and lower secondary students, it is an invaluable resource for the teaching of home economics, food technology and health.

Food Challenges takes a fresh, fun and engaging look at food. Each chapter looks at a different situation or occasion and features hands-on food productions, design challenges, nutrition investigations and case studies. From eating breakfast, to snacking after school, to attending a celebration, this resource challenges young people to be informed, aware and confident decision-makers and consumers.

Chapters include:

• Are your brekkies brilliant?
• Keeping up the fluids
• Is your canteen helping?
• Looking at lunchboxes
• Attacking your snacking
• Fab fast food choices
• Bread and other baked goodies
• School camp cuisine
• What’s for dinner?
• Culture and diversity
• Watching the budget
• Time to celebrate!

View a chapter from Food Challenges

Cost: $12.00 includes GST

Finding the best way of achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is a very individual challenge. It is about having a balance between the amount of energy we consume in food and drink and the amount of physical activity we are able to do. But it's more than that. We need to gather all the relevant information, and find the best way of putting it together for each one of us.

The If not dieting Eating Awareness Diary is a great tool to help us observe what is happening for us around food. It is a resource that both experience and research has shown to be effective. The Eating Awareness Diary helps us to:

• increase our eating awareness
• understand how easy it is to end up eating a considerable amount of the time when we are not physically hungry
• identify the factors that contribute to our non-hungry eating
• achieve and maintain a healthy, comfortable weight

224 pages Cost: $29.00
includes GST (SPECIAL PRICE – RRP $29.95)

So how do you manage your weight? There is a solution and it’s all about attitude. ‘If not dieting, then what?’ shows you how to look at food in a more positive way and move away from the ‘no pain, no gain ethos’, as well as explaining how to fine tune fat content without sacrificing food enjoyment. You can learn how to: enjoy food without feeling guilty, increase you eating awareness, improve how you feel about yourself, fit some sort of activity into your day, and achieve and maintain a healthy, comfortable weight for you without feeling deprived of food or quality of life.

136 illustrated pages
Cost: $19.95 includes GST

Are your children fit and well and living life to the full? Or are they eating the wrong foods, not getting enough exercise and may be a little (or a lot) overweight? If you answered ‘yes’ to the second question don’t panic! Help is at hand. This family friendly book will show you lots of fun ways to gently get your family’s health and fitness back on track.

Let’s Eat Right is packed with information, practical advice, friendly tips plus fun activities for kids. Read this book: it will change you and your family’s attitude towards food and fitness forever.

The workplace health calendar promotes optimal health by providing practical healthy lifestyle tips and recipes for 12 months and beyond!

The calendar comprises individual monthly cards and health information contained within a CD case. All cards are printed in full colour and contain high quality images.

The calendar features:

• Monthly health tips designed to help staff:
  • boost their energy
  • snack wisely
  • prevent afternoon fatigue & productivity slumps
  • prevent sickness & reduce days off work
  • Healthy recipes specifically tailored to the needs of Australian workers
• Health & cooking information can be used beyond the life of the calendar
• Dietary guidelines for Australian adults
• Physical activity recommendations
• Promotion of Australian health weeks and events

Cost: $39.95 includes GST

Nutrition gives you the facts about food, diets, and eating, providing clear, authoritative guidance on how good nutrition can improve your health.

• Straightforward information on every aspect of nutrition from fundamentals to vitamin supplements
• Nutrition for all age groups from infants to senior citizens
• No-nonsense analysis of 45 diet programmes, identifying the good and the bad so you can see which may work for you
• Hundreds of practical tips on healthy eating
• Advice on using food for protection against high cholesterol, osteoporosis, diabetes, migraine and many other conditions
• Real life examples of health problems – and how improved nutrition can remedy them.
• Food composition tables
• Questionnaires to assess your own eating habits and implement change
  
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250 coloured pages
Cost $29.95 includes GST

In the same clear style that made earlier editions of Nutrition for Life a classic comes a newly revised and completely updated version in light of the latest research on food and nutrition. Once again, Catherine Saxelby puts the latest facts and figures at your fingertips, and returns the power for your own health and wellbeing to you. This book will provide the answers to many of your questions about nutrition and health. Learn all about:

• weight and body shape
• diets and diet products
• vitamins and supplements
• antioxidants
• super foods
• allergies, special diets and much more

Catherine also debunks food myths and offers practical ways to improve the average diet, including tips to cut down on fat and salt, ideas to boost fibre, and handy menu guides. The book also provides a comprehensive nutrition glossary and directory with websites.

Cost: $32.95

Positive Food for Kids will help you answer all these questions and more, and give you simple and effective strategies to get your child to eat and enjoy healthy food for life.

Dr Jenny O'Dea's groundbreaking research of over 5000 children and their eating habits revealed some shocking facts.
In the past three days:

• one in six children had eaten no fruit or vegetables;
• one in five had had no fruit juice;
• one in four had had no cereal, pasta or rice; and
• one in ten had had no milk.

Even more confronting was her discovery that poor nutrition not only leads to poor physical growth, but poor brain growth and reduced intelligence too.

In the same study, Dr O'Dea found that children as young as six understood very clearly why they should choose healthy food and drink - it would give them energy, help them to grow and 'feel good on the inside'. Her new 'positive food' approach is based on this valuable research and twenty-five years' experience as a nutritionist, countless interviews with parents and their children, as well as her own experiences as a mother of two daughters.

80 A4 pages
Cost: $22.00 includes GST

This book will teach you how to eat to be healthier, sexier and live a long and productive life – it is easier than you think. You will find out what foods are known to avoid disease and add years to your life. Just as importantly you will learn how to spot the nutrition hucksters and side step their high priced advice. And it is written in a style that all blokes will understand. It’s straight, it’s clear and it’s fun.