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Vegetables
Healthy eating
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.
Barbecuing food safely
Food poisoning cases increase during the barbecue season, so remember these simple steps to help keep your food safe on the ‘barbie’.
Dairy foods
Dairy foods such as milk, yoghurt and cheese are rich sources of many vitamins and minerals, including calcium — essential to bone health.
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...
High fibre foods and diet
Find out how much fibre is needed in your diet and get tips for increasing your intake.
How to cut down on sugar
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 - 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 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 Pyramid | Nutrition Australia
The Healthy Eating Pyramid is a simple visual guide to the types and proportion of foods that we should eat every day for good health. It contains the five core…
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Healthy Eating At Different Ages And Stages | SA Health
Healthy eating at different ages and stages - healthy eating and lifestyle for your particular stage in life - what food our bodies need
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Australian Guide to Healthy Eating | Eat For Health
The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating is a food selection guide which visually represents the proportion of the five food groups recommen
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Healthy eating habits teens | Raising Children Network
You can do a lot to help your teenage child with healthy eating habits, at a time when your child needs to eat more but might be trying out unhealthy food.
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Pregnancy healthy eating in pictures | Raising Children Network
Healthy eating for pregnancy means lots of fruit, vegetables and foods with calcium, protein and iron. Avoid sugary, fatty foods, and drink plenty of water.
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Healthy eating after a heart attack | The Heart Foundation
Its's never too late to start eating healthier. Read our tips and information for a healthy diet after a heart attack.
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Heart Healthy Eating Patterns
This position statement describes the characteristics of heart healthy eating patterns to improve cardiovascular health.
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Healthy eating throughout all of life | Eat For Health
The Australian Dietary Guidelines will help people of all ages make the best food and drink choices for g
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Berries: Bursting with Benefits Especially for Metabolic Syndrome
As a nurse, it is important to promote health. This means everything from post-operative education, to medication adherence, and even the importance of healthy lifestyles. This includes promoting healthy eating and the prevention of disease And beautiful, little berries are one way to achieve this.
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Globesity Prevention: Eating Mindfully | Ausmed
Mindful eating has gained some attention in recent years (OReilly et al. 2014) and it is not hard to see why when considering the global epidemic of overweight and obesity that the World Health Organization (WHO) refers to as globesity (2017).
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Globesity Prevention: Eating Mindfully | Ausmed
Mindful eating has gained some attention in recent years (OReilly et al. 2014) and it is not hard to see why when considering the global epidemic of overweight and obesity that the World Health Organization (WHO) refers to as globesity (2017).
Read more on Ausmed Education website
Healthy Kids : Make Healthy Normal
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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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What Factors Create & Sustain Healthy Microbiome? - 10 Considerations
There are a number of factors that form and contribute to a healthy biome. The state of a biome is not static and the behaviour of a biome has a degree of resilience to external (for example, dietary or pharmaceutical) or internal (for example, age) changes.
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What Factors Create & Sustain Healthy Microbiome? - 10 Considerations
There are a number of factors that form and contribute to a healthy biome. The state of a biome is not static and the behaviour of a biome has a degree of resilience to external (for example, dietary or pharmaceutical) or internal (for example, age) changes.
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How to Retrain Your Bladder | Ausmed
Bladder retraining is a way of training the bladder to retain adequate amounts of urine without experiencing incontinence. Expanding the bladder muscle over time promotes both good bladder capacity and strong pelvic floor muscle tone. Bladder retraining can, in some cases, resolve incontinence.
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Physical and sexual health - Orygen, Revolution in Mind
Orygen is the world’s leading research and knowledge translation organisation focusing on mental ill-health in young people.
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