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How to eat a balanced diet
Get some of the best tips on how to eat a wide variety of foods in the right proportions for a healthy diet.
Barbecue food safety
Food poisoning cases increase during the barbecue season, so remember these simple steps to help keep your food safe on the ‘barbie’.
Healthy Eating Over 60
Your body changes over time. Here's what to eat, how to maintain your appetite and stay well as you get older.
Healthy food swaps
Eating fewer foods that are high in calories, fat, salt and sugars, and swapping them for something healthier is a great way to maintain a healthy lif...
Does your diet have enough fibre?
Find out how much fibre is needed in your diet and get tips for increasing your intake.
Cutting down on sugars
Here’s how you can cut down on sugars by eating fewer sugary foods, such as sweets and biscuits, and drinking fewer sugary soft drinks.
Potassium
Potassium is a mineral and electrolyte that helps nerves and muscles function properly. Find out more about what it is, as well as the risks of high a...
Salt - learn the facts
Find out what food is high in salt and how to reduce your salt intake.
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Healthy eating for older people
Healthy eating for Older People The NDSS and Diabetes Australia have developed a guide for older people living with diabetes
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Healthy Kids : Healthy Eating
Facts about the food habits of children and young people in NSW.
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Healthy eating | The Heart Foundation
A healthy diet includes a variety of food groups and reduces the risk of heart disease. This means eating fresh healthy foods instead of processed and packaged foods.
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Healthy eating :: SA Health
Get more out of life, feel better and live longer by eating healthy food - here's how - healthy eating and nutrition to improve health and wellbeing
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Healthy eating for kids
Encourage healthy eating habits for kids by shopping healthy and planning meals to minimise temper tantrums at the dinner table and keep fussy eaters happy.
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Nutrition and Healthy Eating
The Population Health Division, within the Department of Health, is responsible for developing and evaluating national policy, resources and initiatives in the areas of nutrition and healthy eating, health promoting physical activity and promoting healthy weight.
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Healthy Eating Dietitians Association of Australia
Healthy Eating Eating well is key to feeling your best, both now and in the long- term
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You and healthy eating
Eating healthy foods can help improve your energy levels, weight, sleep patterns, ability to fight infection and reduce your chance of developing serious health risks.
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Healthy eating | Arthritis Australia
Is there a diet to cure arthritis? No diet has been proven by research to cure arthritis. Be very cautious of special diets or supplements that claim to cure arthritis. The best diet for arthritis is a healthy, balanced one to maintain your general health and prevent other medical problems. The best diet for arthritis
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Healthy Eating for Gestational Diabetes
Gestational Diabetes (GDM) occurs when glucose levels in the blood are higher than usual during pregnancy. This can put the health of you and your baby at risk. Healthy eating specific for GDM can help achieve good blood glucose control and healthy weight gain for mother and baby during pregnancy.
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Cutting down or changing the fat we eat may reduce our risk of heart disease | Cochrane
Modifying fat in our food (replacing some saturated (animal) fats with plant oils and unsaturated spreads) may reduce risk of heart and vascular disease, but it is not clear whether monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fats are more beneficial. There are no clear health benefits of replacing saturated fats with starchy foods (reducing the total amount of fat we eat). Heart and vascular disease includes heart attacks, angina, strokes, sudden cardiovascular death and the need for heart surgery. Modifying the fat we eat seems to protect us better if we adhere in doing so for at least two years. It is not clear whether people who are currently healthy benefit as much as those at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (people with hypertension, raised serum lipids or diabetes for example) and people who already have heart disease, but the suggestion is that they would all benefit to some extent.
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Healthy Kids : Make Healthy Normal
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Increased fruit and vegetable intake to prevent cardiovascular disease | Cochrane
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a global burden and varies between regions. This regional variation has been linked in part to dietary factors and low fruit and vegetable intake has been associated with higher rates of CVD. This review assessed the effectiveness of increasing fruit and vegetable consumption as a single intervention without the influence of other dietary patterns or other lifestyle modifications in healthy adults and those at high risk of CVD for the prevention of CVD. We found 10 trials involving 1730 participants in which six examined the provision of fruit and vegetables to increase intake and four trials examined dietary advice to increase fruit and vegetable intake. There were variations in the type of fruit and vegetable provided but all interventions investigating provision involved only one fruit or vegetable component. There were also variations in the number of fruit and vegetables that participants were advised to eat. Some studies advised participants to eat at least five servings of fruit and vegetables a day while others advised at least eight or nine servings per day.The duration of the interventions ranged from three months to one year. Adverse effects were reported in three of the included trials and included increased bowel movements, bad breath and body odour. None of the included trials were long enough to examine the effect of increased fruit and vegetable consumption on cardiovascular disease events such as heart attacks. There was no strong evidence that provision of one type of fruit or vegetable had beneficial effects on blood pressure and lipid levels but most trials were short term. There was some evidence to suggest beneficial effects of dietary advice to increase fruit and vegetable consumption but this is based on findings from two trials. More trials are needed to confirm these findings.
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For Professionals and Teachers The Butterfly Foundation
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LiveLighter - For your practice
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Surviving Night Duty - Ausmed
5 Tips For Night Duty. Night duty is a different animal from every other shift, and you need some strategies to make it through comfortably. Although day ...
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Healthy Kids : Population Survey reports
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Healthy Kids : NSW Population Child Health Survey
Key findings from the 2009-10 Australian National Childrens Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey on the food habits, physical activity patterns and weight status of Australian children.
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Healthy Kids : Deloitte Access Economics report on vegetable consumption
Deloitte Access Economics has modelled the impact that increased vegetable consumption would have on reducing government health expenditure, and the returns to producers as a result of the increased consumption.
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Healthy Kids : NSW School Students Health Behaviours Survey: 2011
Outlines of some of the key findings from the 2011 Australian National Childrens Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey on the food habits, physical activity patterns and weight status of children in NSW.
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