Eat Strong: Good Food for Health (2012)

Join Daniel Browning as he showcases some great health promotion and community development programs in rural and remote Australia that aim to improve health and nutrition in Indigenous communities. He also discusses the issues with Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver, Director of the Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit and Anthea Fawcett, Founder and Director of the Remote Indigenous Gardens Network. Prevention of chronic disease is key to closing the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Good nutrition helps prevent chronic disease. There is enormous potential to improve health outcomes and reduce the burden of chronic disease with a wide range of strategies to improve nutrition.