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Fresh Tastes @ School - NSW Healthy School Canteen Strategy seeks to give students across NSW a taste for healthy foods and ensures that no school canteens sell high fat or high sugar foods or drinks through over-the-counter sales, vending machines, special events or contractors

Healthy kids website seeks to reduce childhood obesity.

"Good for Kids - Good for Life Initiative" is about helping kids in the Hunter, New England and Lower Mid North Coasts to eat well, be active and healthy. 

Go for 2 and 5 website recommends Australians to eat 2 pieces of fruit and 5 vegetables each day.

Priority S3(d) (Obesity) in the State Plan is titled "Improved health through reduced obesity, smoking, illicit drug use and risk drinking" -

(A)        but only targets "Childhood obesity" seeking to stop the growth in childhood obesity by holding childhood obesity at the 2004 level of 25 per cent by 2010, then reduce levels to 22% by 2016.

Proportion of Children who are Overweight or Obese


 
Proportion of Children who are Overweight or Obese
Source: NSW Department of Health 'Schools, physical activity and nutrition survey' Note: Children aged 5-16 years

(B)       recognises that adult obesity is also increasing, with about half the adult population now overweight or obese but notes that adult overweight and obesity is not specifically addressed within the State Plan; and

(C)       acknowledges the treatment of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and Type 2 Diabetes is a significant and an immediate problem but no programme to reduce this significant and an immediate problem is available in the NSW State Plan.