Research from Nutrition Research Australia and Deloitte Access Economics shows that increasing our grain fibre intake could prevent hundreds of thousands of cases of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) every year. Consequently the economic savings in healthcare and lost productivity could reach into the billions of dollars.

Top findings:

• If all Australians increase their grain fibre intake by 4-5g (one serve of high fibre grain food) a day, it could prevent 64,000 cases of CVD and 126,000 cases of T2D and save the economy up to $1.5 billion dollars in healthcare costs and lost productivity
• Having two to three serves of high fibre grain food a day could prevent 139,000 cases of CVD and 272,000 cases of T2D; and save the economy up to $3.3 billion

For supporting materials including the White Paper, animation, infographic, press release and comments from the Assistant Minister for Health and other key stakeholders please see below.