An occasional indulgence allows you to stick more closely to a healthy eating plan at other times. However, the key is to limit your treats to small quantities ...
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term used to describe two conditions, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, both of which cause inflammation of the bowe...
Test your knowledge of nutrition on the following topics covered in recent issues of the Australian Healthy Food Guide.
Are you making smart food choices?
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The Heart Foundation recommends margarine over butter.
Margarine has less ‘bad’ saturated fat and more healthy unsaturated fats and helps keep your cholester...
People taking part in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program who have had a negative test between 1 December 2008 and 8 May 2009 will be asked to do the te...
Australian research shows that 50 % of pregnant women are iodine deficient, which can affect the development of the foetal brain and lead to lower intelligence ...
The value of fish and fish oil in preventing heart disease has recently been confirmed in a large US study. The findings support the advice from the Heart Found...
A recent analysis of all the available scientific evidence found that 3 simple remedies were effective in this difficult-to-treat condition.
They were:
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Australians turning 50, 55 and 65 years of age between January 2008 and December 2010 will be offered a free 'one-off' bowel cancer screening test, in phase 2 o...
