Good nutrition throughout life is fundamental to the maintenance of wellbeing and the prevention of disease.

It plays a vital role in pregnancy and early childhood, prevents obesity and type 2 diabetes and can lower the risk of recurrent heart disease by up to 70%.

However, remote communities face many barriers to healthy eating, including isolation, the high cost of food, short-term interventions and limited access to resources to improve decision making.

Learn more about Menzies nutrition projects:

• The evaluation of a remote Indigenous store-based budgeting tool (FOODcard) and income management on buying patterns, usage and customer satisfaction
• Supporting the Yolngu Life: Yolngu Walngakum. Building healthy Communities.
• Building capacity to improve food systems for better food security
• Developing a tool to monitor the nutritional quality of foods sold in remote community stores (RIST project)
• Evaluating the Red Cross breakfast program in remote communities in the Northern Territory
• REPORT - Aboriginal Perspectives on Physical Activity in Remote Communities:  Meanings and Ways Forward