Programs for better health

Our team develops range of evidence-based healthy eating and lifestyle programs. Our science ranges from managing specific health conditions and programs tailored to individual’s needs, to community-wide programs for improving population health. Our programs, and program elements, take the form of books, online programs, and apps, to name a few.

 

Complete programs for better health

Our team has decades of experience in developing, validating and delivering diet and lifestyle programs to improve healthy lifestyle behaviours. These include improving diets and physical activity to enhance wellbeing and reduce the risk of obesity or manage chronic diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes. We work with our partners to deliver interactive high quality, effective diet and lifestyle programs and tools which support better decision making, healthy choices and behaviours. We develop these programs through rigorous scientific methods including large evidence reviews and measuring the effects of programs through clinical trials.

Our achievements include developing and testing:

• Our online lifestyle program, The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet Online, supported by evidence published in scientific papers and our Total Wellbeing Diet books.
• Low carbohydrate diets for general health, weight management and improved metabolic health including individuals with Type 2 Diabetes in The CSIRO Low Carb Diet.
• The CSIRO Healthy Gut Diet which explains the science behind gut health and simple steps to ensure that your supports your healthy lifestyle.
• High Protein nutrition and exercise plans for weight management and healthy ageing.

 

Spotlight on vegetables

Australians aren’t eating enough vegetables. That’s a scary fact when you consider that a diet lacking in vegetables may increase your risk of developing chronic health problems like heart disease, diabetes and some cancers, not to mention an unhealthy weight. Low vegetable consumption starts in childhood and continues into adulthood. So, we’re working to help both children and adults increase their vegetable consumption.

VegKit aims to increase the vegetable intake of Australian children by using a sensory-behavioural approach to changing dietary behaviour. Designed to provide a collection of practical tools, resources and interventions, the five year project (2017-2022) centres around six key activities to support children, educators and health care professionals, and engage with relevant industry. It’s a collaborative project and the first Australian program to provide an integrated nation-wide approach to improving children’s vegetable consumption. The project is a collaboration with Flinders University and Nutrition Australia and is supported by Hort Innovation (Australia’s horticulture industry research and development corporation). This project is an example of how CSIRO engages a range of stakeholders, for example science, schools, industry and the Government to develop practical answers to complex problems.

VegEze is a smartphone app designed to increase daily vegetable intake. It was developed with collaborators using a challenge technique to motivate users to eat three different vegetables at dinner every day for 21 days. Similar methodologies can be applied to a range of problems to help consumers develop positive health behaviours.

 

 

 

Further information can be found at www.csiro.au/en/Research/Health/CSIRO-diets

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