Healthy Eats

Healthy Eats is an innovative program from Life Ed Qld focused on increasing fruit and veg consumption in primary school aged kids.   

Spanning the full school year, Healthy Eats is a contemporary program that works with schools, parents and community partners, to provide a whole school, place-based approach to healthy eating.  

Our impact

Recently Healthy Eats underwent an evaluation by Social Marketing at Griffith University to understand the impact the program has had on students and schools who have participated.

Implementation of Healthy Eats within schools:

• Increased the number of schools with an active healthy food and drink policy from 1 school pre intervention (5%), to 9 schools post intervention (45%).
• Increased the number of schools with a functioning vegetable garden from 11 schools pre-intervention (58%) to 17 schools post intervention (89%)
• Increased the number of schools that conduct in-class fruit and vegetable breaks from 10 school pre intervention (53%) to 18 school post intervention (95%)
• Increased the number of schools that have a student leadership team to promote healthy eating among their peers from 0 schools pre intervention (0%) to 12 schools post intervention (63%)
• Increased the number of smart choice compliant tuck-shops from 2 schools pre-intervention (11%) to 6 schools post intervention (32%), with an additional four schools improving their tuck-shop menus without achieving smart choice compliance.
• Delivered nutrition professional development to 157 classroom teachers from ten schools

In summary, participation in the Healthy Eats program had a substantial positive effect on the healthy eating environment in some schools, which was observed particularly in those schools that pursued Healthy Eats accreditation.