A Better Choice
Health and Wellbeing Queensland are leading A Better Choice, a strategy to make it easier for Queenslanders to access healthy food and drink options in places outside the home.
ABC Healthcare
Queensland Hospital and Health Services (HHS) employ over 100,000 staff and receive many visitors each year, providing an opportunity to support health with A Better Choice Healthcare Strategy.
ABC Sport
A Better Choice for Sport and Recreation, led by Health and Wellbeing Queensland, helping councils, sporting organisations and clubs to create an environment where physical activity and healthy eating go together.
ABC 'Pick Me'
Looking for something fresh, tasty and nutritious? Look for A Better Choice ‘Pick me’ promotions for a healthier option at participating outlets.
Why A Better Choice
Why healthy food environments
The choices we make when buying food are affected by things like what food and drinks are available, where they are placed in the store, their prices, and how they are advertised, often without us even realising it. Usually, we see a lot of options that are high in saturated fat, sugar, and salt, which are heavily marketed, especially towards children. Because of this, it can be hard to pick healthy options.
However, research has shown when food environments offer healthier options, and make them appealing and competitively priced, customers are more likely to purchase these options.
Queenslanders have told us this is what they want: access to easily available, reasonably priced, healthier food and drink options when eating out of home. We surveyed over 1,250 Queenslanders, and what we heard was:
What is A Better Choice?
A Better Choice supports food retailers to design menus, displays and promotions that guide customers towards healthier options. Implementation of the strategy also reduces the availability and promotion of food and drinks, contributing to poor diets, obesity and chronic disease. Together, these actions increase the purchasing of healthier options to support health and wellbeing.
A Better Choice is based on the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, and uses a traffic light system to classify products according to their nutritional value.
- GREEN: Best nutritional value
- AMBER: Some nutritional value
- RED: Limited or no nutritional value
A healthy plan
Health and Wellbeing Queensland are implementing innovative strategies to improve access to healthy food in places where Queenslanders buy food. These strategies offer setting-specific targets for the provision and promotion of food and drinks from each category, including helpful resources, case studies, and support for effective implementation.
Featured programs
Find out more about healthier food and drinks in your setting
There are some great A Better Choice programs available across Queensland, delivering real health outcomes for Queenslanders.
A Better Choice Healthcare
Queensland Hospital and Health Services (HHS) employ over 100,000 staff and receive many visitors each year, providing a great opportunity to support health and wellbeing by implementing the A Better Choice Healthcare Strategy.
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