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Nutrition
Tips for helping your kids develop a healthy relationship with food
ABC Health & Wellbeing By Dr Jocelyn Lowinger, 29 Jul 2016. Meal times can be a source of frustration and conflict in many families. In a scenario that is familiar to many parents, you go out of your way to provide healthy meals and encourage your kids to eat their leafy greens. But all theyRead more
The truth about fat and sugar is finally explained
Ditch govt guidelines: Dr Aseem Malhotra reveals why you need fat By Men’s HealthPosted on May 23, 2016 The UK’s major public health bodies are under pressure this week after a damning report from the National Obesity Forum and the Public Health Collaboration has railed against current dietary guidelines. They say the focus on low-fat diets isRead more
The future of food: what we’ll eat in 2028
We’ve all heard that the future menu may involve less meat and dairy. But don’t worry, we could have customised diets, outlandish vegetables, robot chefs and guilt-free gorging to look forward to instead. And we reckon that makes up for missing out on the odd sausage By Dr Stuart Farrimond, 30th August, 2018. Before 1928,Read more
Sydney researchers find artificial sweeteners can tell brain to increase food intake
By the ABC National Reporting Team’s Alison Branley and medical reporter Sophie Scott. 16 Jul 2016. Australian researchers have uncovered new evidence explaining why using artificial sweeteners might lead people to put on weight. Research at the University of Sydney has examined how sweeteners impact the brain’s response to food intake. Previous studies have alreadyRead more
Severe childhood obesity rate rising significantly, more than 30,000 Australian children affected: study
By Virginia Small, 13 May 2016, 9:34am More than 30,000 Australian children may now be severely obese, a national study into childhood health has found. Researchers said their findings suggested they had underestimated the problem, and its extent may be even greater than figures show. “The numbers on how many Australian children have severe obesityRead more
Obesity epidemic is fuelled by ‘truth decay’
By Lisa Bero, 11 Oct 2018. World Obesity Day isn’t the most auspicious occasion but with two-thirds of Australia’s adults and a quarter of its kids either overweight or obese it isn’t a day we can ignore. Obesity has crept up on Australia over a number of years and is due to a number ofRead more
Nutritional supplements found to boost effectiveness of anti-depressants
Updated 28 Apr 2016, 8:30pm. ABC News Four nutritional supplements could make a big difference to the effectiveness of anti-depression medication, an international study by University of Melbourne researchers and colleagues from Harvard has found. Hundreds of millions of people take anti-depressants but they may not work for up to 50 per cent of patients.Read more
Kale is out: Why young women are rebelling against clean eating
By Hayley Gleeson, ABC, 27 Jun 2016, 9:40am The sheen on the world of wellness — of sugar-free this, and gluten-free that — is finally starting to wear off. During a visit to Australia earlier this year, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson gently denounced clean eating and other restrictive diets as unbalanced and unsustainable. “I wantRead more
How to make sense of contradictory health news ABC Health & Wellbeing, by Tegan Taylor, posted 24 April 2018
Red meat is good for you; red meat is bad for you. Sugar is killing us; sugar’s still better than artificial sweeteners. Fat is bad; fat is good. It seems like every day there’s a new piece of health advice in the news that contradicts the advice we got yesterday. Add to that a barrageRead more
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