The impact of sugar on our health and weight has become more commonly known in recent times, and soon thousands of Aussies will start on the challenge to eliminate sugar from their diet for 50 days.
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Mapping Australia’s collective weight gain
In Australia today, around two-thirds of adults and a quarter of children are overweight or obese. This is a dramatic change from the landscape just 30 years ago when we first collected national data on weight and height.
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Subway’s chicken fillet is not a fillet at all: chain found in breach of advertising code
Fast-food chain Subway has been forced to rename its Chicken Fillet, after the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) found it to be misleading, because it is not in fact a chicken fillet, but rather processed meat.
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Longer Life Through Coffee Drinking?
There is a persistent belief that drinking coffee is bad for you. Some alternative medicine systems eschew all coffee drinking (but are enthusiastic about coffee enemas).
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Drinking chocolate recalled; milk content not declared
Valvorp Fine Foods has recalled its 1963 Drinking Chocolate nationally, after failing to declare the product contained milk.
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Edible packaging could reduce waste
A scientist has found a way to reduce packaging waste that creates millions of tonnes of landfill every year: eat the packaging.
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95 per cent of children eating too much saturated fat: study
A new study has found 95 per cent of Australian children over two exceeded their recommended intake of saturated fat.
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Australians oppose TV junk food ads, warm to GM foods
More than 75% of Australians support a ban on junk food advertising in children’s television, and almost 20% support a total ban, according to a poll by the Australian National University on attitudes to food security.
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Vitamin D to be added to foods?
The rate of low vitamin D levels in Australia could see it added to foods.
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Kellogg Australia reduces sodium levels ahead of schedule
Kellogg Australia has met its 2010 commitment to reduce sodium levels in its Corn Flakes and Rice Bubbles by 20 per cent.
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The problem with gluten is…
One in every hundred Australians are affected by Coeliac disease, but 75 per cent are undiagnosed, meaning that about 160,000 Australians have coeliac disease but don’t yet know it.
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A new dress all starts with a bottle of wine
Scientists from the University of Western Australia have found a new use for red wine: clothing.
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Ask and you shall receive – smart consultation leads to better scienc
Worldwide, and especially in Australia, much valuable science is being wasted or stalled through what is known as technology rejection – the public’s hostile reception of new technologies or scientific advice.
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New invention gets sauces out of bottles as quick as water
A clever scientist in the US has come up with a way to make the process of getting sauces out of their bottles easier and most importantly, quicker.
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People in regional Australia more likely to consume alcohol, be obese
A new Australia-wide study has found that people living in rural areas are more likely to consume alcohol and be overweight and obese.
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Folic acid reduces childhood cancer rates
Folic acid has been proven to reduce the chances of neural tube defects (NTDs) in unborn babies, and now new research has found it could also reduce the most common types of cancers in children.
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UNSW, Korea join forces to reduce allergens during food and drink processing
Australian researchers have identified processing techniques which will minimise the adverse effects of allergens in milk and other food products.
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Junk food ads aimed at children fall 60 per cent
Children are seeing 60 per cent less junk food advertising during their television programs, following suggestions from the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) that the practise should be stopped, and calls from health groups to ban ads aimed at those under 12.
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Reducing daily salt consumption by 3 grams could save 6000 Aussie lives every year
The National Heart Foundation of Australia has found that if everyone reduced their salt intake by 3 grams per day, 6 000 lives could be saved every year.
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AFGC rejects tax on fast food outlets, study finds 20pc needed to make impact
The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) has rejected a proposal from a suburban Melbourne council that called for major food outlets to be taxed up to 400 per cent more on commercial rates than other businesses.
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