Australia's food and nutrition 2012

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Release Date: 17 Jul 2012
Author: AIHW
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Australia's food & nutrition 2012 highlights the key components of the food and nutrition system.

ISBN: 978-1-74249-323-7
Cat. no: PHE 163
Pages: 250

Findings from this report:

It was 30% more expensive to buy basic nutritious foods in rural and remote areas than in capital cities in 2006
4 out of 5 evening meals were home cooked in an average week in 2009
936kg of food waste was produced per household per year, based on data from 2006–07
15% of babies were exclusively breastfed at 6 months in 2010

Table of contents

Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
Body section
- Introduction
- 1 People and their environment
- 2 The global food system
- 3 The policy environment
- 4 Food production
- 5 Food selection
- 6 Food waste
- 7 Food and nutrient intakes
- 8 Nutritional status and health
- 9 Monitoring and surveillance
End matter
- Glossary
- References

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