Dec 15, 2009 | Healthy Eating, Medications/Vitamins |
Drinking lots of coffee and tea can significantly reduce a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, an Australian study shows. Consuming three to four cups of the beverages daily cuts the diabetes risk by 25 per cent for tea and coffee drinkers,...
Dec 15, 2009 | Health Foods, Healthy Eating |
Compounds present in popular spices pepper and turmeric could treat breast cancer by limiting the growth of stem cells that cause a tumor to grow, according to new US research. Turmeric and pepper have been widely explored as potential cancer treatments but a new...
Dec 14, 2009 | Medications/Vitamins |
THE cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil has triggered multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms in some girls after being inoculated. Doctors said the victims were either teenagers or women in their early 20s who may have been predisposed to MS or who had a prior history...
Dec 14, 2009 | Children's Health |
Schools are teaching children to grow and cook healthy food in hopes of stopping the spread of Australia’s obesity plague. Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon on Wednesday opened a kitchen garden at Bondi Public School in Sydney’s east, as part of the...
Dec 10, 2009 | Healthy Eating |
There are a number of great things about eating fish caught in WA, besides the simple fact that marine oils are good for you. One of these is that growing up in our unpolluted environment they arrive on your plate with an implicit organic rating, having grown up...
