The City of Armadale has partnered with Cancer Council WA’s LiveLighter program to raise awareness of the importance of healthy eating, and promote living a healthy lifestyle in our community through the use of resources, and campaign materials. LiveLighter is a public health education campaign aiming to help people eat well, be physically active, and avoiding excess weight gain. 

The campaign does this through:

• Getting people to stop and think about their health now and consider the impact of the way we eat and move.

• Giving people the skills to make small (or big!) lifestyle changes to improve their health.

• Kickstarting the conversation and supporting community efforts to change the food and physical activity environment.

As part of the City’s partnership with LiveLighter, several billboards advertising the Eat Brighter campaign were placed in Harrisdale and Piara Waters to encourage people to include a variety of colourful fruits, and vegetables in their diets.

The Eat Brighter campaign encourages people to:

• BUY more colour

• EAT more colour

• COOK more colour, and

• GROW more colour

Whether fresh, frozen, bottled, canned or dried, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables in all the colours of the rainbow will give you a great mix of the nutrients you need for good health (1).

Try LiveLighter’s colourful recipes below!

• Hello Yellow

• Keen on Green

• Reach for Red

• Bite into Blue

• Bite more White

LiveLighter resources

Healthy eating information

• Healthy Eating Basics

• Healthy Eating on a Budget 

• Understanding Food Labels

Recipes

• All recipes 

• 5-ingredient recipes

• Breakfast recipes

• Lunch and dinner recipes

Calculators & Quiz

• Think you're getting your 2&5 each day? Take this quiz to find out! - Fruit and Veg Quiz

• How much junk food are you eating each week? Try out the LiveLighter Junk Food Calculator

• Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist measurement can give you an idea about your health risks. Try out LiveLighter's BMI Calculator

• Have you ever wondered if you're active enough? Visit the following link, and enter your details to find out. - 

  Physical Activity Calculator

• Have you ever wondered how much sugar you're drinking? To find out, use Livelighter's Sugary Drinks Calculator

References:
Cancer Council WA, LiveLighter (2022). Eat Brighter. Retrieved from: https://livelighter.com.au/eating-well/healthy-eating/fruit-and-veg/fruit-and-vegwa (1).