Understanding the nutrition information on a food label can help you to make more informed choices about the food that you eat.
Diet and Weightloss
Dietary fibre
Dietary fibre is a component of plant materials which is largely digested by bacteria in the large intestine. High-fibre diets can help with bowel problems, cholesterol and diabetes.
Travellers’ diarrhoea
Contaminated food and drink are the major sources of travellers’ diarrhoea. High-risk regions for an attack include the majority of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Mexico, Central and South America.
Asthma and dairy foods
This special feature explores the asthma and dairy foods debate. Find out if milk is safe for your child with asthma.
Pre-diabetes can be reversed by weight loss
A weight loss of 11% of body weight in an obese person can reverse pre-diabetes, where a person has impaired glucose metabolism. Pre-diabetes puts a person at risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Exercise improves fatty liver
Exercise on its own can achieve reductions in liver fat in people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, even if a person doesn't lose weight, a study has found.
Scurvy returns to Australia due to poor diet
Scurvy, a disease caused by lack of vitamin C, has resurfaced in Australia in Western Sydney. Symptoms include swollen bleeding gums and joint pain.
6 Foods to beat inflammation
Ongoing inflammation is behind medical conditions such as high blood pressure and insulin resistance. Find out 6 foods that can reduce inflammation, with myDr.com.au.
Eating disorders
Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder are the main eating disorders. Abnormal eating patterns are one symptom.
Swallow your own gastric balloon to lose weight
A new gastric balloon that is swallowed inside a capsule pill then inflated in the gut has proved an effective means of losing weight in a randomised trial.
