Healthy Food Guide announces final edition

‘‘It was my baby for a long time.’’ Bezzant said the magazine had fared better than others in the market, holding its position for a relatively long time. However, over the past couple of years, the decline of print media had caught up with the magazine, she said, which had seen readers migrate online and become less willing to pay for content.

She said it was still the topselling food magazine, with a current readership of about 290,000.

In a statement posted on the website, Healthy Life Media managing director Phil Ryan said its audience had increasingly moved online and the print format was becoming unsustainable.

Ryan said it would continue to invest in its website to serve that digital audience with ‘‘evidencebased, expert advice on healthy eating and improving lifestyle’’.

‘‘For those who prefer the print version of the magazine, we are expecting the Australian edition of the magazine will be in shops from late November,’’ he said.

Bezzant said the Healthy Food Guide had been the bastion of independent and locally produced food and nutrition content.

‘‘I think it is a bit of a shame for evidence-based nutrition messages.

‘‘We have had this great mainstream magazine totally based on that and that is going to be gone from print.’’

Food writer and blogger Catherine Milford said in a Facebook post that she was ‘‘immensely saddened’’ by the news and lamented the decline of the print format. ‘‘With Healthy Food Guide you could always be 100 per cent sure that you were getting great food and advice that had been scientifically and thoroughly checked.

‘‘No pop science, no makebelieve,’’ she said.