Posts: Nutrition
Using enticing food labels to make vegetables more appealing
Does labeling carrots as “twisted citrus-glazed carrots” or green beans as “sweets-sizzlin green beans and crispy shallots”make them more enticing and increase vegetable consumption? Read more
White House relaxes Obama-era healthy school lunch rules
The Trump administration has loosened nutritional standards aimed at making US school lunches healthier that were championed by former first lady Michelle Obama. New Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue postponed reductions in sodium, relaxed requirements for whole grains and allowed sweetened flavoured milk back. Read more
Dietary guidelines don’t work. Here’s how to fix them
Dietary guidelines come under a lot of fire. They have been accused of not being based on evidence, not being environmentally sustainable and being out of touch with nutritional science. They also fail to change people’s eating habits, as shown in Australia and the US. Read more
This October we’re hungry for a #feastofideas
Global social movement, NCDFREE, has kicked off their latest campaign #feastofideas and it’s one you don’t want to miss!
Have you ever sat down to dinner with friends, and hours later found yourselves sitting around solving all the world’s problems? Well, NCDFREE are channeling all that wisdom into one delicious campaign.
“Never doubt that a […]
Doctors not taught to discuss diet, nutrition with patients
Good diet and nutrition can put you on a path to health and wellness, but it’s unusual to find doctors who are trained well enough and can spend the time required to have this conversation with patients. Read more
From Conference To Clinic: The Longest Yard On Nutrition
The contrast between science and clinical practice can be so stark that it is shocking. I just returned from Washington, D.C. and the International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Read more
The ALMA Eating Plan for People and Planet
Authored by Garry Egger AM MPH PhD, Shivaun Conn BSc PhD APD, Joanna McMillan BSc PhD APD, Sebely Pal BSc, MSc PhD RN, and Anja Sussmann BSc MSc APD, the ALMA Eating Plan for People and Planet provides a balanced approach to a healthy, anti-inflammatory diet.
Fad diets come and go these days, often proselytized by schools of thought insisting that […]
Musical diets: you can dance if you want to…
We are no strangers to a dizzying array of distorted headlines about diet. But the last couple of weeks took it to a whole new level. Read more…
Avoid the fad diet
It seems that every week we are being presented with a new ‘solution’ to losing weight. Paleo, The New Atkins, Eat Right for Your (blood) Type, The HCG diet, The 5:2 diet, I Quit Sugar, The Cabbage Soup diet and the list goes on. Thousands of so-called ‘diet’ books hit the shelves each year so […]
Staying on track with new health changes
When the new year arrives we feel excited about the chance for new beginnings and fresh starts. Which is great – as long as we can keep this momentum going and sustain our new healthy behaviours. So what it is that keeps some of us on track whilst others are already wishing for a new year […]
