Eating well

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Maintaining a balanced diet is essential to overall good health and wellbeing. Healthy eating and being active can help to:

improve quality of life and wellbeing
protect against chronic illness and disease
improve mood and increase energy levels
protect our bones and teeth
help to maintain a healthy weight.

The Australian Dietary Guidelines includes information on the types of foods, food groups and the amount of food that we need to eat for health and wellbeing.