Healthy Eating

Heart healthy eating encourages us to check how we choose, prepare and eat our foods. It shows us how to increase the foods we need to protect our hearts, and to reduce the foods we don't need.

Following the links below with take you through web-pages explaining the Heart Foundation's Heart Healthy Eating Pattern. The pages look at heart healthy food groups including:

• Coloured vegetables and fruit
• Grains and starchy vegetables
• Fish, seafood, dried peas and beans, meat and poultry
• Low-fat milk and milk products
• Oils, spreads, nuts, seeds and avocadoes
• Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks
• Optional foods

The pages provide links to relevant articles written by our nutrition team, recipes promoted through our various recipe books as well as materials to download and support your efforts to eat a little healthier.

After having read through this, if you have further interest in learning more about food and nutrition you may want to consider enrolling yourself in one of two courses the Heart Foundation currently promotes, the Certificate in Pacific Nutrition or The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand's Food and Nutrition Certificate.

After all of your navigating you still cannot find the information you are seeking you can email a question to our Nutrition Team.