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Michael and Kim Findlay have moved back to Adelaide but they continue to run a hospital delivering crucial healthcare to thousands of Ugandans from their home office.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, health, foreign-aid, doctors-and-medical-professionals, diet-and-nutrition, children, uganda, australia, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedJust weeks after researchers showed a cause-and-effect relationship between ultra-processed food and weight gain, two more studies have linked these foods with disease and death. So does our current focus on fat, sugar and salt need to shift?
Topics: health, heart-disease, health-policy, diet-and-nutrition
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| UpdatedWhat does it take to feed our troops? Buffalo skewers, lemon myrtle coated croc and lamb shanks are just a few of the mains on offer.
Topics: defence-and-aerospace-industries, defence-forces, defence-industry, food-and-cooking, lifestyle-and-leisure, recipes, diet-and-nutrition, travel-and-tourism, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedTwo years ago, when Bryan hit a "mid-life slump", he started eating and exercising like a Jane Austen character. He's never looked back.
Topics: human-interest, books-literature, diet-and-nutrition, exercise-and-fitness, history, people, united-states
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Since the rise of drug culture decades ago the fast-growing, fibrous hemp plant has been vilified, shunned and prohibited — but now it is finally shedding its undeserved bad rap.
Topics: health, diet-and-nutrition, rural, food-processing, building-and-construction, industry, agribusiness, agricultural-crops, neerim-south-3831, vic, australia, geelong-3220
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Nanoparticles are extremely tiny particles and they can be found in our food. Here's what we know about their safety and what they can do for us.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedWhen scientists compared an ultra-processed diet to an unprocessed one — matched calorie for calorie — the processed food still caused people to gain weight. Why?
Topics: health, diet-and-nutrition, obesity
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| UpdatedTasmanian schools are advised to cross off salami and chocolate chip cookies in a once-a-week Subway fast food offer to students, as funding and staff shortages force some short-term canteen closures.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, schools, children, child-health-and-behaviour, education, tas, hobart-7000, huonville-7109
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| UpdatedIt looks like canned tuna, tastes like canned tuna, but contains none of it. A new soy-based "fishless tuna" has upset the seafood industry by using a similar name and packaging and marketing itself as a more sustainable alternative.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, food-and-beverage, diet-and-nutrition, australia, qld, hobart-7000, launceston-7250, tas
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Obesity experts are calling on the Government to ramp up regulations around food manufacturing as a new report reveals almost half of all processed supermarket food is considered "discretionary" — or junk.
Topics: health, diet-and-nutrition, obesity, food-and-beverage
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| UpdatedConstipation is something most people experience from time to time. These are the four main causes and what constitutes the ideal stool.
Topics: health, constipation, diet-and-nutrition, australia
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When you apply lashings of honey to your toast or drop a teaspoon of the sweet nectar into your tea, do you ever stop and think of its medicinal qualities?
Topics: medical-research, biology, health, diet-and-nutrition, medical-sciences, diseases-and-disorders, science-and-technology, microbiology, human-interest, sydney-2000
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Macadamia industry hosts challenge aimed at developing new food concepts to drive demand for Australia's native nut amid increasing global supply.
Topics: fruit, food-and-beverage, food-processing, food-and-cooking, nut-crops, diet-and-nutrition, byron-bay-2481, sydney-2000, brisbane-4000, university-of-queensland-4072, bundaberg-4670, japan, china
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Australian pistachio growers are struggling to keep up with demand as more people become aware of the nut's health benefits.
Topics: agriculture, agricultural-crops, lifestyle-and-leisure, nut-crops, research-organisations, food-and-cooking, diet-and-nutrition, renmark-5341, robinvale-3549, kyalite-2734, india, china, loxton-5333, paringa-5340, waikerie-5330
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| UpdatedMarket research shows that Australians are eating more vegan foods and red meat consumption will likely drop, but there's a long way to go before we're a nation of vegans.
Topics: science-and-technology, climate-change, land-clearing, diet-and-nutrition, environment
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| UpdatedOne of the nation's biggest meat wholesalers believes Australians eat too much meat and says people should focus more on quality than quantity.
Topics: rural, livestock, beef-cattle, small-business, business-economics-and-finance, health, diet-and-nutrition, environmental-impact, environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-management, australia, nsw, darlinghurst-2010, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAt 16, Canberra teenager Melissa Keller-Tuberg was fighting for her life in hospital. Now, she wants to save other young people from "the nightmare" of an eating disorder.
Topics: womens-health, health, diet-and-nutrition, child-health-and-behaviour, adolescent-health, health-policy, mental-health, australia, act, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedHealth authorities are trying to stamp out the illegal sale of a potentially dangerous muscle-building drug in retail stores, but some in the industry say that will not stop its rising popularity — with some bodybuilders and gym enthusiasts "not fazed" by the risks.
Topics: health, exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThere are more than 1,000 species of bacteria fighting deep inside your body. But what does the makeup of that bacteria tell us about our health? Freya Petersen finds out the hard way — by having her poo tested.
Topics: health, diet-and-nutrition, irritable-bowel-syndrome, food-safety
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| UpdatedHave you been straining when you visit the toilet lately? It could be a sign you're not getting enough fibre. And along with smoothing things out in the bathroom, a research team has found fibre-rich diets can reduce the risk of life-threatening conditions, including heart disease and stroke.
Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, doctors-and-medical-professionals, medical-research, diet-and-nutrition
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Wattle seed has been a mainstay of the diet of Indigenous Australians for thousands of years and is now highly sought after by top chefs across the country.
Topics: rural, diet-and-nutrition, health, agriculture, agricultural-crops, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, adelaide-5000, sa, barcaldine-4725, qld, renmark-5341
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If you're a fan of snacking on Australia's only commercially grown native nut, you may have noticed prices rising on supermarket shelves.
Topics: agriculture, diet-and-nutrition, nut-crops, vegetable-fruit-nuts, horticulture, advertising-and-marketing, health, agribusiness, agricultural-marketing, hervey-bay-4655, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000, byron-bay-2481, nsw, lismore-2480, bundaberg-4670, kingaroy-4610, maryborough-4650, gayndah-4625, burnett-heads-4670, bargara-4670