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| Dr Tracy McCaffrey |
Department
of Nutrition and Dietetics lecturer Dr Tracy McCaffrey presented at the Annual Scientific
Meeting of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand and the Nutrition Society of Australia
last week in Wellington.
Dr McCaffrey gave two presentatations: ‘Discretionary food consumption in the Victorian
Health Monitor survey’ and ‘Nutrition knowledge and estimation of
kilojoules: who is getting it right?’.
“The
Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend limiting discretionary food (DF)
choices, i.e. foods containing saturated fat, added salt, added sugars and
alcohol,” said Dr McCaffrey.
“Our study
results suggest Victorian adults are not limiting
their consumption of DFs in line with guidelines and there is a need for public
health strategies to support limiting DF consumption.”
Dr
McCaffrey said that continued monitoring of food consumption by comprehensive population
dietary surveys are required in order to determine the success of public health
approaches to limit the consumption of DFs.
In her study
of portion size and kilojoule content of meals, Dr McCaffrey presented her
findings suggesting that despite high nutrition knowledge, consumers have
difficulty correctly estimating kJ difference between ‘standard’ and ‘large’
serving sizes.
“This
suggests there needs to be continued commitment to public health strategies
that raise awareness of appropriate portion sizes,” added Dr McCaffrey.
Research
Fellow in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics Dr Kate Huggins also presented
at the conference last week in New Zealand.
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