Eating Well for Adults

Follow the links below to find information about good nutrition for adults.

Reviewed December 2007

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Title:   Healthy eating tips
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   A healthy diet should include a good variety of nutritious foods. These include breads, pastas, fruits and vegetables. Eating breakfast is also an important part of a healthy diet.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   How much meat do you really need?
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   A guide to making meat part of a healthy, balanced diet.
Date:   Aug 1998
Title:   Fitting more fruit and vegetables into your diet
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Why it's good to eat more fruit and vegetables each day, and how to do it.
Date:   Aug 1999
Title:   Dietary advice for the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Two trials randomised 358 participants to dietary advice and control treatment groups. The longest duration of dietary advice was six years, the only other trial lasted 12 months. Dietary advice appears to be effective in reducing the risk of diabetes b...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   All about food - general
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   What nutrients do we need in our food, and why are they needed? Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? We hear a lot about what we should and should not eat, and whether supplements are necessary.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Monitoring food habits in the Australian population using short questions
Publisher:   Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
Description:   This report discusses the growing interest in assessing food habits and population nutrition by Commonwealth, state and territory health departments and by non-government and commercial organisations.
Date:   Jan 2001
Title:   Evaluation of short dietary questions from the 1995 National Nutrition Survey
Publisher:   Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
Description:   Information about population dietary habits and how these are changing underpins rational planning and improvement of nutrition related health policies and programs.
Date:   Jan 2001
Title:   Comparison of short questions with weighed dietary records
Publisher:   Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
Description:   The report analyses the performance of 16 short dietary questions in a population of Australian adults.
Date:   Jan 2001
Title:   Food and your life stages
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Our nutritional requirements change as we move through different life stages. Adolescence, pregnancy, lactation, menopause and ageing all place extra demands on the body. These demands need to be met by our daily diet to maintain the best of health.
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Glucose tolerance test
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Directions on what to eat and drink before taking a glucose tolerance test are given.
Date:   Jun 1995
Title:   Eating well for good health
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   To help reduce your risk of chronic disease, a balanced diet is recommended. A balanced diet is one that contains a wide variety of nutritious foods while taking care with the amount of foods consumed that contain fat, salt, added sugar and alcohol.
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Advice to reduce dietary salt for prevention of cardiovascular disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Intensive support and encouragement to reduce salt intake did lead to reduction in salt eaten. It also lowered blood pressure but only by a small amount (about 1 mmHg for systolic blood pressure, less for diastolic) after more than a year. This reducti...
Date:   Nov 2003
Title:   Iodised salt for preventing iodine deficiency disorders
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Iodised salt supplementation improves iodine status but effect on other outcomes is unclearIodine deficiency causes mental retardation in children as well as enlarged thyroid glands (goitre) and deficiencies in thyroid hormones in people of all ages. It...
Date:   Sep 2004
Title:   Low glycaemic index diets for coronary heart disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The glycaemic index is a measure of the ability of a carbohydrate to affect blood glucose levels. There is weak and limited evidence that low glycaemic index diets can reduce risk factors for coronary heart disease. This review shows a need for long-ter...
Date:   Jul 2004
Title:   Alcohol and the law
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   There are laws governing how alcohol can be sold and used.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Zinc supplementation for the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Diabetes mellitus is associated with long-term complications, especially eye, kidney, nerve, heart and blood vessel disease. Type 2 diabetes is mainly characterised by a reduced ability of the hormone insulin to stimulate glucose uptake in body fat and ...
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Preoperative fasting for adults to prevent perioperative complications
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   General anaesthetic reduces reflexes that stop regurgitated gastric juices reaching the lungs. As this can be dangerous, people are often advised to have nothing to eat or drink from the midnight before surgery. However, the review of trials found that ...
Date:   Aug 2003
Title:   Vitamin A supplementation for cystic fibrosis
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cystic fibrosis can cause certain vitamins, such as vitamin A, to be inadequately absorbed leading to problems caused by vitamin deficiency. Lack of vitamin A (vitamin A deficiency) can cause specific problems such as eye and skin problems. It can also ...
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Magnesium supplementation for the management of primary hypertension in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review examined whether taking magnesium supplements could be recommended for treating adults with high blood pressure from no known cause. It reviewed 12 trials enrolling 545 people, which compared magnesium supplementation with a dummy drug (plac...
Date:   Mar 2006
Title:   Bowel cancer causes and symptoms
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Diet is one of the main suspects in the hunt for the causes of bowel cancer.
Date:   Jan 2002
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