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Topics: diet-and-nutrition, indigenous-culture, fitzroy-crossing-6765
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Topics: diet-and-nutrition, indigenous-culture, fitzroy-crossing-6765
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A new food labelling system is helping Indigenous people in remote communities make healthier food choices.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, indigenous-culture, fitzroy-crossing-6765
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Feeling fatigued? You could be among the 10 per cent of young women in Australia that suffer from iron deficiency.
Topics: womens-health, health, diet-and-nutrition, human-interest, canberra-2600
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A so-called 'super food' with a host of healthy benefits, producers of bone broth are seeing an exponential growth in sales.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, food-and-cooking, food-processing, beef-cattle, ballina-2478, casino-2470
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| UpdatedMeat could be used in 3D printing to produce a soft food with specific nutrients and suitable for people who have problems with chewing or swallowing.
Topics: food-processing, food-and-beverage, food-and-cooking, diet-and-nutrition, aged-care, beef-cattle, sydney-2000, tamworth-2340, canberra-2600, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe Tasmanian primary school that has banned Christmas candy canes and birthday treats has gone to ground, as criticism of the healthy eating policy rollout mounts.
Topics: primary-schools, diet-and-nutrition, health-policy, health, bellerive-7018
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| UpdatedHow do you like your vegetables cooked? If you like them soft and falling apart, you're probably cooking them too long and putting your health at risk.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, food-and-cooking, human-interest, health, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedFive million Australian dollars in prize money will be on offer in a new competition to find solutions for the world's food security worries.
Topics: food-and-beverage, diet-and-nutrition, pacific
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| UpdatedA disease better known for killing millions of sailors centuries ago is discovered among a group of diabetes patients at a major western Sydney hospital.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, health, vegetable-fruit-nuts, diabetes, sydney-2000
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When South Australia's Kris Lloyd recently won a major award with her goat cheese cubes topped with native Australian green ants, bush tucker was highlighted on a global scale.
Topics: food-and-cooking, diet-and-nutrition, human-interest, adelaide-5000
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The summer weight loss dialogue that begins around daylight savings each year is so very boring. It's time to ditch the diet talk and ban the term "bikini body" from entering your lexicon.
Topics: feminism, women, womens-health, shame, diet-and-nutrition
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| UpdatedA coalition of Australia's most influential doctors' groups come together to push for a tax on sugar sweetened drink and changes to the way obesity is defined.
Topics: obesity, health-policy, health, diet-and-nutrition, food-and-beverage, industry, business-economics-and-finance, tax, government-and-politics, australia
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When AFL fan Glenn Nelson needed to lose a lot of his 300 kilograms in weight he turned to American football, the sport which "needs big guys that want to hit people".
Topics: mens-health, diet-and-nutrition, sport, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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Children with a vitamin D deficiency are more likely to develop asthma, according to Perth medical researchers, who say the vitamin can help "promote tolerance to allergens".
Topics: asthma, diseases-and-disorders, health, vitamins, diet-and-nutrition, australia, wa
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| UpdatedIf you have trouble sleeping or your sleep pattern is disrupted, you may be surprised to learn that the bacterial colonies in your gut are also being disturbed.
Topics: sleep, sleep-disorders, diet-and-nutrition, health, australia
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| UpdatedStrict paleo eating is too "extreme" while throwing in a few superfood items isn't a cure-all for a bad diet, according to dieticians who have launched a free online course to educate the public about what healthy eating really looks like.
Topics: food-and-beverage, diet-and-nutrition, health, australia
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| UpdatedMonash University will launch a free online course designed to educate the public on the fads and facts around diet and nutition, says the head of the university's Nutrition and Dietetics department, Professor Helen Truby.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, food-and-beverage, australia
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| UpdatedSeaweed could hold the key to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, one cow burp at a time.
Topics: climate-change, agribusiness, diet-and-nutrition, townsville-4810
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What starts as good nutrition research is so easily twisted by marketing hype into overblown health claims.
Topics: health, diet-and-nutrition, lifestyle-and-leisure, food-and-cooking, science-and-technology, pseudo-science, australia
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Governments should use tax policy to increase the price of sugary drinks like sodas, sport drinks and even 100 per cent fruit juices as a way to fight obesity, diabetes and tooth decay, the World Health Organisation says.
Topics: tax, health, diet-and-nutrition, health-policy, obesity, united-states
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| UpdatedDevotees of kombucha — a type of fermented tea — insist it promotes healthy gut bacteria and can prevent everything from yeast infections to cancer. But what does the science say?
Topics: food-and-beverage, food-poisoning, food-safety, food-and-cooking, diet-and-nutrition, sydney-2000
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A cup or two of coffee is a mandatory start to the day for many people, but the Australian caffeine habit could be having health effects we're not aware of.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, lifestyle, healthy-recipes, health, perth-6000
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| UpdatedPeople who carry a particular genetic mutation linked to obesity are more likely to crave high-fat food but bypass sugary foods, a new study indicates.
Topics: science-and-technology, obesity, diet-and-nutrition
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When champion aerial skier Jacqui Cooper's one-year-old daughter began vomiting and not gaining weight, no-one could work out why.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, allergies, diet-and-nutrition, health, infant-health, human-interest, melbourne-3000, vic