Mar 22, 2011 | Chemicals In Food, Food Labelling |
I got into work the other day and my staff asked me if I had seen Channel 7’s Sunrise, as apparently there was a new study linking artificial sweeteners as found in diet drinks to heart disease and stroke. Thank goodness for technology as I was able to go...
Mar 8, 2011 | Health Foods, Healthy Eating, Weight Issues |
Approximately 60 percent of the population is considered overweight, and almost one-third is obese, serious diseases are linked to what we eat and kill an estimated three out of four Australians each year. These diseases include heart disease, high blood pressure,...
Mar 8, 2011 | Health Foods, Healthy Eating |
One of the biggest diet fallacies to date is that sugar causes diabetes and artificial sweeteners are the healthy alternative. In the last two decades in Australia diabetes has increased 300%, 275 people are diagnosed every day, by 2015 it is estimated that 4.6...
Mar 2, 2011 | Children's Health |
Breakfast cereals, pasta, rice and other foods packed in cardboard boxes could be contaminated with toxic chemicals. The chemicals, known as mineral oil hydrocarbons (print on newspapers), appear to be leaching from the recycled paper used to make most cardboard...
Mar 2, 2011 | Allergies/Food Sensitivities |
DOCTORS are not yet able to explain the condition but Kim McGlinn knows the misery gluten intolerance can inflict. Ms McGlinn, who runs HealthyFeast, a Leichhardt bakery, has heard customers’ stories of the possible effects of accidentally consuming gluten:...
