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What should my waist measurement be?

The Australian Government has developed a media campaign called ‘Measure Up’ that aims to increase awareness about the health risks posed by too much fat stored around the middle. Weight alone ignores where the fat is stored, and does not account for the weight of muscle, and muscle is good. A simple waist measurement is [...]

December 19th, 2008 | Category: Q & A | Comments are closed

Should I be buying low fat foods?

I guess you might be expecting the answer to be “yes”, but like many things this is not as simple as it appears – the real story is best summed as “it depends”! The best low fat foods to ensure you buy are those categories of foods which are high in saturated fat: dairy foods [...]

December 11th, 2008 | Category: Q & A | Comments are closed

Low-carb beers are healthier

Fact: Low-carb beer is a classic case of wishful thinking, or perhaps more fittingly an example of ignoring the elephant (or the elephant beer*?) in the room. Yet, low-carb beers were the ‘it’ beer in 2008. In fact, only recently I received a media release from an Australian brewing company claiming they have made [...]

December 1st, 2008 | Category: Food Myths | Comments are closed

Fact Feast December 2008

Spinach
English spinach and silverbeet are champions among vegetables because of their high vitamin, mineral and phytochemical content and their very low kilojoule (calorie) content. These dark leafy greens are rich in vitamin K, A and C, folate and manganese. And although Popeye led us to believe Spinach is a good source of iron, unfortunately [...]

December 1st, 2008 | Category: Fact Feast | Comments are closed

News December 2008

Nuts about the Mediterranean diet

If you’re wondering whether it’s too late to change your diet, a study of 1224 of older people in Spain should change your mind.  The subjects were all at high risk of cardiovascular disease -61% had the Metabolic Syndrome (large waist circumference and high blood pressure, high blood glucose, high [...]

December 1st, 2008 | Category: News | Comments are closed