DRAFT Australian Dietary Guidelines - Eat For Health

Appendix 2. Process report
In 2003, NHMRC issued the Dietary Guidelines for Australian Adults and Dietary Guidelines for Children
and Adolescents in Australia, having already issued Dietary Guidelines for Older Australians in 1999.
With a policy of reviewing guidelines every five years, NHMRC in collaboration with the Healthy
Living Branch of the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) commenced a review of the suite
of Dietary Guidelines in 2008. The above three reports have now been combined into one set of
Australian Dietary Guidelines.
The Australian Dietary Guidelines provide a resource that promotes the benefits of healthy eating to
improve community health and wellbeing and to reduce the risk of diet-related disease. The
Guidelines are intended for healthy members of the general population of any age, including people
with common diet-related risk factors such as being overweight. They are not intended for people
with medical conditions who require specialised dietary advice, or for the frail elderly who are at
risk of malnutrition. The target audience of the Guidelines includes health professionals (including
dietitians, nutritionists, general practitioners and nurses/lactation consultants), educators,
government policy makers (for example, the government departments of health), the food
industry and other interested parties. Other resources are being developed from the Guidelines for
other target audiences.
RaggAhmed was commissioned in October 2010 by NHMRC through a Request for Quote
process through the NHMRC technical writing panel to edit the draft chapters and collate them
into one succinct report.
A2.1 Contributors
An expert working committee (the Working Committee), chaired by
Dr Amanda Lee and deputy-chaired by Professor Colin Binns, was appointed in April 2008 to
guide, advise and author the redevelopment of the Australian Dietary Guidelines. Representatives
from DoHA attended working committee meetings as observers.
A2.1.1 Members of the Working Committee
Dr Amanda Lee (Chair)
Professor Colin Binns (Deputy Chair)
Dr Geoffrey Annison (from August 2010)
Professor Sandra Capra, AM
Professor Peter Davies
A/Professor Sharon Friel
Ms Clare Hughes
A/Professor Mark Lawrence
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