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Food additives
Food additives are substances added to some foods to keep them fresh or improve their colour, flavour, texture or appearance.
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Food additives | HealthEngine Blog
Food additives are chemical substances added to foods to improve flavour, texture, colour, appearance and consistency, or as preservatives during manufacturing or processing. Herbs, spices, hops, salt, yeast, water, air and protein hydrolysates are excluded from this definition.
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Can food additives affect my childs behaviour? Dietitians Association of Australia
Can food additives affect my childs behaviour? For most people, foods with additives are perfectly safe and there is no need to worry about eating them as part of a healthy, varied diet
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Adverse Reactions to Foods | HealthEngine Blog
Adverse Reactions to Food: Many people associate various symptoms to foods, and while scientific evidence that foods can be harmful is lacking in many cases, there is evidence to support some adverse reactions to foods.
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Food intolerances | Women's Health Queensland Inc
It is not just artificial food additives that can cause food intolerances.
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Adverse Reactions to Natural Food Chemicals | HealthEngine Blog
Some natural food chemicals, in particular salicylates, amines and monosodium glutamate (MSG), can cause reactions in sensitive people, where they are often labeled food intolerances.
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Flavouring food without salt | The Heart Foundation
Cut down on salt today by using these salt substitutes to flavour your food.
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Kids' Health - Topics - Chewing chewing gum
Chewing gum has been around for many thousands of years
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Alternative Sweeteners
Alternative Sweeteners This fact sheet provides information on alternative sweeteners
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Natural sugar alternatives | Women's Health Queensland Inc
We examine popular natural sweeteners to see how healthy they really are.
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Nutrition Strategies for Controlling Type 2 Diabetes
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Adverse effects of sports supplements in men | Australian Prescriber
Up to 1 in 5 sports supplements contain banned substances. Find out what to look for and how to manage patients with adverse effects.
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Beta-blockers lower blood pressure when given as a second drug | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: Addition of a beta-blocker to diuretics or calcium-channel blockers reduces BP by 6/4mmHg at 1 times the starting dose and by 8/6 mmHg at 2 times the starting dose
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Kava extract for treating anxiety | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: Compared with placebo, kava extract is an effective symptomatic treatment for anxiety although, at present, the size of the effect seems small
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Drugs in breastfeeding | Issue 5 | Volume 38 | Australian Prescriber
Most commonly used drugs are relatively safe for breastfed babies. The dose received via milk is generally small and much less than the known safe doses of...
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Common Constipation Treatments
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