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The Healthy Weight Program is a weight management and healthy lifestyle program targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in rural remote and urban communities. The program was developed by the Tropical Public Health Unit nutrition teams in Cairns and Townsville as a primary prevention intervention to address the high incidence of diabetes and other lifestyle diseases among North Queensland indigenous adults.
Photo showing the sugar and fat content in food products
(Source: Fat in Food Photos)
The innovative and largely visual resources accompanying the program are designed to assist indigenous health workers to implement the program at a community level through a series of weekly activity based workshops and ongoing monthly individual measurement screenings.
The Dr Edward Koch Foundation has taken over the sales, distribution and reproduction of the resource kit for the Healthy Weight Program. Money received will be utilised for further public health activities.
Download Order Form here
The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating has been developed to help Australians choose a healthy diet using a variety of foods. The advice in this kit, which is primarily concerned with physical health, applies to most people. Its purpose is to provide information about the kinds of foods to choose in your diet each day. It is available by filling out an order form and sending by fax or email.
Download Order Form here
The FoodCent$ programme is a nutrition education program focusing on teaching people with a limited budget a way of allocating food money to ensure a well-balanced diet. The program utilises a nutritionist-led train-the -trainer approach to facilitate project implementation by non-nutritionists. The program is very userfriendly, and includes an adviser's manual with a lot of practical information and other attractive resources.
The FoodCent$ Program Resource is provided free of charge. The order form is available in word document here.
10,000 Steps is Australia's first "whole of community"
health promotion project targeting physical activity.
To achieve health benefits you need to take 10,000
steps a day. Pedometers are a reliable way to measure
your activity. 10,000 Steps Pedometers:
The Dr Edward Koch Foundation is a non-profit organisation
for the health and well-being of North Queenslanders.
By purchasing a 10,000 Steps Pedometer from the
Dr Edward Koch Foundation you can improve your
health and wellbeing AND support the Foundation.
For more information contact Dulcie Bird on 4031 0145
or email info@kochfoundation.org.au
To find out more about the 10,000 Steps program
visit www.10000steps.org.au
A phamphlet can be downloaded here.