THE 2016 CSIRO Healthy Diet Score report, released yesterday, canvassed the dietary habits of more than 86,500 adults across the country over a 12 month period.
An early snapshot of the survey results released in August 2015 awarded the nation's diet a score of 61 on a 100-point scale, but additional surveys subsequently rate us at 59 - TAKE THE SURVEY.
"If we can raise our collective score by just over 10 points, we help Australia mitigate against the growing rates of obesity and lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and a third of all cancers," CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet author Professor Manny Professor Noakes said.
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