Nutrition

Dietician providing advice on healthy eating

Your nutrition questions answered

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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Butter or margarine?

The Heart Foundation recommends margarine over butter. Margarine has less ‘bad’ saturated fat and more healthy unsaturated fats and helps keep your cholester...

Roast tomato frittata

This delicious low-fat, low-joule frittata serves 4. Preparation time: 10min. Cooking time: 1hr. Ingredients Cooking oil spray 250g punnet cherry tomato...

Faulty bowel cancer tests

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...

Are you getting enough iodine?

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 ...
Plant-based and animal sources of Omega-3 acids

New recommendations for omega-3 intake

The Heart Foundation has recently recommended all Australian adults without existing heart disease should consume 500 milligrams of marine-source omega-3 oils d...
Man and woman pretending to fly after drinking an energy drink

Do energy drinks really give you wings?

A heart attack and cardiac arrest in a healthy 28 year old man recently has highlighted concerns about the consumption of ‘energy’ drinks. The 7–8 cans the youn...