Classroom resources
Five food group posters
The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating is a food selection guide that visually represents the proportion of the five food groups recommended for consumption each day.
Available here is a set of posters on each of the five food groups, and 'sometimes' foods, that can be printed and displayed in the classroom.
Nutrition—The inside story 3rd Edition
Nutrition—The inside story 3rd Edition is an excellent text for students of food and nutrition, and teachers wishing to enhance their content knowledge. Content includes:
• the Australian Dietary Guidelines
• diet-related diseases and disorders
• country of origin labelling
• the Health Star Rating system
• food security
• biotechnology
• future foods
• digital marketing
• food waste
Copies can be purchased through the Home Economics Institute of Australia website.
Australia's health
Australia's health is biennial publication on the health of Australians by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's health 2026 report presents the latest key findings and a selection of short topic-based narratives, offering insights into contemporary health and wellbeing issues. Australia's health topic summaries provide a collection of 65 web pages providing comprehensive statistics on health, the health system and health services, as well as key data improvement activities. Topics include:
• biomedical health risk factors
• built environment and health
• chronic conditions
• alcohol
• tobacco
• diet
• overweight and obesity
• physical activity.
Australia's health 2026 was published in July 2026.
Overweight and obesity
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has updated their web report that explores the number of Australians living with overweight and obesity, how the prevalence varies by different sociodemographic characteristics and how it has changed over time. The latest update was released on 24 June 2026. The web report is available here.
Diet
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has updated their web report that analyses the diet of Australians against nutritional recommendations. The latest update was released on 24 June 2026. The web report is available here.