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Balancing your diet

Health: Library - 25 April 2007
What is a balanced diet? Dietitian Sharon Natoli explains the basics of good nutrition.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition

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What is a healthy recipe?

Health: Library - 23 April 2007
Dietitian Sharon Natoli explains how to spot the difference between a healthy meal and a health hazard.

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, healthy-recipes

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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

Health: Library - 25 September 2006
Symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, include constipation, diarrhoea (sometimes alternating), and abdominal pain.

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, irritable-bowel-syndrome, stomach-and-digestion

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Cholesterol

Health: Library - 03 August 2006
Cholesterol is essential in the body, but too much of the wrong kind of cholesterol increases your risk of heart disease. How do you keep your cholesterol levels healthy?

Tags: diet-and-nutrition

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Caffeine

Health: Library - 27 April 2006
Caffeine is our favourite legal drug and the world's most popular drink. What does it do to your body, and how much is too much?

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, caffeine

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Eating disorders

Health: Library - 09 December 2004
Many of us are anxious about our weight, but for people with eating disorders, dieting becomes dysfunctional, even dangerous.

Tags: adolescent-health, diet-and-nutrition, eating-disorders, womens-health

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Diabetes

Health: Library - 19 December 2002
Diabetes occurs when something interferes with the action of the hormone insulin, which controls blood sugar levels. In Type 1 diabetes, the body does not make enough insulin. In Type 2, it doesn't work properly.

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, diabetes

Good fish, bad fish

Health: The Pulse - 13 November 2008
Good fish are rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Bad fish are contaminated with industrial pollutants. Choice magazine rates our common table species.

Tags: child-health-and-behaviour, diet-and-nutrition, pregnancy-and-childbirth, brain-and-nervous-system

Your daily bread, now with iodine

Health: The Pulse - 06 November 2008
Alarmed by the dangerously low levels of iodine in our population, our food regulators have decided iodine must be added to bread. But will it be enough?

Tags: child-health-and-behaviour, infant-health, diet-and-nutrition, thyroid-disorders

Diagnosing type 1.5 diabetes

Health: Your Stories - 27 October 2008
Caraline McLeod wasn't the only one surprised by tests confirming she had an uncommon type of diabetes she'd read about on the internet.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, diabetes

Boost your bone bank

Health: Features - 30 September 2008
Osteoporosis may seem like a disease of the old, but prevention starts young. Are you doing the right things to keep your kids' bones - and your own - in top condition?

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, osteoporosis, womens-health

Coconut: good fat or bad?

Health: The Pulse - 25 September 2008
Mixed messages abound about coconut and health. Is it a fatty treat, to be eaten with care? Or a miracle food, as some websites claim?

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, heart-disease

Cholesterol: the full story?

Health Minutes - 22 September 2008
Some experts say blood fats other than cholesterol are better at assessing your true risk of a heart attack or stroke.

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, heart-disease, doctors-and-medical-professionals

Gestational diabetes

Health: The Pulse - 14 August 2008
Gestational diabetes - pre-diabetes in pregnancy - is on the rise, increasing a woman's risk of subsequent diabetes.

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, diabetes, pregnancy-and-childbirth, womens-health

Iron and blood pressure

Health Minutes - 11 August 2008
Where you get your iron from might make a difference to your health. That's the implication of a multinational study comparing diet to blood pressure.

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, hypertension

A tale of three diets

Health Minutes - 11 August 2008
An Israeli trial has compared three diets: a traditional-low fat/low-calorie diet, a reduced-calorie Mediterranean diet, and a low-carb diet.

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, obesity

Butter or margarine: which is better when it comes to fat?

Health: Talking Health - 06 August 2008
Are you a butter or margarine person?

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, heart-disease

Beating tiredness

Health: Healthy Living - 22 July 2008
Effective treatments for tiredness could be closer to hand than you realise.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, stress, sleep

How to eat more vegies

Health: Healthy Living - 08 July 2008
Getting more vegies into your day isn't as hard as you think.

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The winter fitness survival guide

Health: Features - 24 June 2008
Does your fitness routine go into hibernation during the colder months? It doesn't have to: there are plenty of ways to stay active and prevent weight gain during winter.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, mental-health

Mediterranean diet and diabetes

Health Minutes - 23 June 2008
A study in Spain has found that people who stick closely to the Mediterranean diet have a lower chance of type 2 diabetes.

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, diabetes, eating-disorders

Joining the 100 club

Health: The Pulse - 19 June 2008
Forget the baby boom, the fastest growing age segment in Australia's population is those aged 100 and over. How can you make it - and in good health?

Tags: aged-care, exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, older-people

Eggs: healthy or not?

Health: Healthy Living - 27 May 2008
Go on have an egg; it's not the dietary evil we once thought.

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, heart-disease

Is chocolate good for your heart?

Health: Talking Health - 14 May 2008
Do you ever use the 'health' argument to justify your chocolate consumption?

Tags: diet-and-nutrition, heart-disease, hypertension

How to keep weight off

Health Minutes - 29 April 2008
A review of the available evidence from weight loss trials shows it's possible to get weight off and keep it off.

Tags: exercise-and-fitness, diet-and-nutrition, obesity

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