Nutrition

The Australian Dietary Guidelines provide up-to-date advice about the amount and kinds of foods that we need to eat for health and wellbeing. The recommendations are based on scientific evidence, developed after looking at good quality research.

Strategies to support children on the spectrum with a variety of different eating habits

Visit Raising Children's Network for the tips.

If your child has food allergies or food intolerance, it’s very important for your child to avoid the food. You also need to know how to spot the symptoms and manage a reaction.

Food labels help us to make healthy and safe food choices. But there’s so much nutritional information on food labels that they can sometimes be confusing. Here’s how to read food labels and work out how healthy a food is – or isn’t. 

Guidelines on food labels from Raising Children's Network.

Fussy eating is normal, but it can be hard to handle. Here are some ideas from Raising Children's Network that might help if you have fussy eaters in the family.