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Kōrero: Public health

Health posters: healthy diet

This Department of Health poster from the 1950s depicts a recommended daily diet. Apart from some difference in quantities, and the mention of fat for cooking, the foods do not differ greatly from what is recommended in the 2000s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-D-FOOD-1950s-01

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Kerryn Pollock, Public health – Healthy bodies, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/31372/health-posters-healthy-diet (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 18 April 2011, reviewed and revised 7 July 2019 me te āwhina o Richard Edwards.