4727.0.55.008 - Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey: Consumption of Food Groups from the Australian Dietary Guidelines, 2012-13

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Key Findings Measuring the consumption of food groups from the Australian Dietary Guidelines Vegetables, legumes and beans Fruit Milk, yoghurt, cheese and alternatives Lean meat and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds, legumes and beans Grains Water Unsaturated spreads and oils In This Release + About the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey Indigenous Australian diets fail to meet guidelines (Media Release) About this Release History of Changes	IN THIS RELEASE This publication is the second release of information from the nutrition component of the 2012-13 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (NATSINPAS). It is intended to complement the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey: Nutrition Results – Foods and Nutrients, 2012-13 (cat. no. 4727.0.55.005) publication with newly developed information from Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) about consumption of the Five Food Groups, based on the 2013 Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADG) from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). This publication includes analysis on the average consumption of the five ADG food groups. Additionally, it describes the contribution of food sub-groupings to the total number of serves of the five food groups as well as the most common food/beverage sources for each food group. Unlike the analysis conducted on the total population in the May 2016 release of Australian Health Survey: Consumption of food groups from the Australian Dietary Guidelines, this release does not provide modelled estimates of usual intake. Therefore, the data cannot be used to estimate the proportions of people who would meet the ADG recommendations on a usual basis. See Explanatory Note 5. Analysis of the 2012-13 NATSINPAS suggests that, like other nutrition surveys, the results are affected (biased) by some under-reporting of food intake by participants in the survey. Therefore, estimates of the amounts of food groups consumed in this publication may be an underestimate of the true amounts consumed. More information on under-reporting is provided in the following section and the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey User’s Guide. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.