Healthy Eating In Australia

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I. Introduction
Eating healthy diet is an integral part in order to achieve good quality of life and better wellbeing. Adopting healthy diet life style can improve our health as well as provide protection against many chronic diseases. (1)
Dietary advices that grounded on scientific evidence to promote healthy food is very crucial if we are aiming at achieving better health among Australians. The Australian Dietary Guidelines and the Australian Guide to healthy Eating are good examples. (1)
Food choices are affected by many influences, for instance, cultural backgrounds, philosophical reasons such as being vegetarian and many other personal preferences.
All these factors should be considered when developing interventions and advices. (1) …show more content…

The risk of Obesity and other diseases related to diet may be substantially increased by consuming these kinds of food on a frequently basis. (1)
Obesity has unfavourable health as well as economic effects such as chronic diseases as well as sudden death. A total health burden equal to 7% was reported in Australia 2011, 63% of burden due to obesity was reported as fatal burden. In addition to that, Australian economy is found to be burdened by $8.6 billion annually due to Obesity (2011-2012). (2)
Vulnerability of indigenous adults to become Obese is very high when its compared to non-indigenous people. The same case applied to people with low socio-economic status when they are compared to high socio-economic status. Moreover, living in remote areas and outside major cities also increase the vulnerability. (3)
The most common way used nowadays to define whether a person is underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese is Body Mass Index (BMI) which is mainly centred on measuring height and weight. …show more content…

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IV. Methods
A qualitative design, triangulation as a method of data collection will be adopted by using a combination of focus groups discussion and semi-structured interviews.
These two approaches are chosen because they can be conducted in naturalistic settings which may stimulate and encourage more openness and frankness that could help to answer the primary research questions.
Questions will be used during interviews and focus group discussion related to healthy diet will be developed based on the definition of healthy diet according to Australian Dietary Guidelines. Healthy diet defined by The Australian Dietary Guidelines are based on the current scientific evidence (1).
Data collection:
Triangulation methodology; using combination of focus groups discussion and semi-structured interviews is not to cross validate the data, but it's to capture different dimensions related to research questions.
Six focus group discussions, video recorded will be conducted; each group will be composed of 6-9 men. Duration will be around 1 hour

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