Catherine's Students' Fact Sheets
Useful things when you're studying nutrition such as easy explanations of Dietary Guidelines, Nutrient Reference Values, Healthy Eating for teens, and A career as a dietitian.
Discover the government consumer website. The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating explains the guidelnes in full, has nutrition calculators, fact sheets and a heap of resources. But read this first: Australian Guide to Health Eating
At Nutrient References Values, you find the full list for a range of macro- and micro-nutrients accrss all stages of the life cycle (including RDIs, EARs, AIs, EERs and ULs). With an explanation of how each value was developed and a nuitrient requirement calculator. But read this first: Nutrient Reference Values.
Food Standards Australia New Zealand The FSANZ website details the requirements of manufacturers when it comes to nutrition labelling via the Food Standards Code, plus the searchable databases of detailed nutrition information for a range of generic foods.
PEN: Practice-based Evidence in Nutrition Become a member of Dietitians Australia and you can access this international resource for free. It has toolkits for key nutrition issues including FAQs, goals and recommendations plus patient handouts.
Dietitians of Australia The governing body in Australia provides best practice guidelines for key nutrition issues, the searchable resource database, position statements on hot topics, as well as information on recognised university courses for dietetics. If you do become e member, you can access a job board, discussion forums, interest groups and professional development opportunities. https://dietitiansaustralia.org.au/
This Victorian government website explains a range of medical conditions and treatments in simple terms but general healthy eating factsheets.
Nutrition Education Materials Online (NEMO)
A range of patient handouts developed by Queensland Dietitians on common nutrition issues requiring education.
Contains a range of factsheets and recipes, plus a student centre and information on volunteering and state-based events.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
This federal government site has credible information, publications and statistics on Australia’s nutrition and health.
This site has a wide range of resources on various sectors of dietetics, plus patient education sheets, a job board and professional development events.
