The Heart Foundation advocates for better public health and nutrition, guided by these principles:
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is progressing work on nutrition labelling to better support consumers to make informed healthy food choices. The Heart Foundation welcomes the opportunity to share evidence and information with FSANZ to help inform their work on front and back-of-pack nutrition labelling, including the Health Star Rating (HSR) system and the nutrition information panel (NIP).
Read the Heart Foundation's response to FSANZ's call for information.
The Heart Foundation welcomes the Food Regulation Standing Committee's initiative to improve commercial foods for infants and young children. We support policy options that would impose greater regulations on the composition and labelling of commercial infant and toddler foods in Australia.
Read the Heart Foundation's submission to the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care's public consultation on improving commercial foods for infants and toddlers.
Exposure to marketing for unhealthy foods and drinks can significantly influence food intake, choices and preferences. Children are especially at risk of being influenced because they are at an important stage in life where they develop habits that often last into adulthood.
Read the Heart Foundation’s submission to the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care’s feasibility study on options to limit unhealthy food marketing to children.
The economic burden attributable to high cholesterol is $3.9 billion.
Heart Foundation provided a submission to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) proposal P1059 regarding energy labelling on alcoholic beverages.
Summary of the recommendations within our submission:
Information on healthy eating, with a focus on key highlights for people who have heart diseases. This includes people who have had a heart attack, along with heart disease risk factors (high cholesterol, high blood pressure).
The Heart Foundation’s food and nutrition position statements have been developed to keep you informed about our position on a range of nutrition issues relating to heart health.
Our evidence summaries and reviews contain the current knowledge used to develop the Heart Foundation’s position statements and recommendations on food and nutrition.