The Foodbank hunger report2017 found that 15 per cent of Australians have experienced food insecurity at least once in the last 12 months, with three in five of them experiencing food insecurity at least once a month. Dependent children live [...]
Research led by Dr Kylie Smith at the Menzies Research Institute examined the effectiveness of school breakfast programs, interviewing parents, carers, teachers and students at five Tasmanian primary schools. Dr Smith's team found that while the nutritional value of [...]
An article in Over Sixty magazine describes a study from Imperial College in London that found eating 10 helpings of fruit and vegetables a day is better than eating the minimum recommended five. Researchers looked at 'all' available evidence [...]
The largest ever fruit and vegetable survey conducted in Australia, by CSIRO, suggests that only 24 per cent of women and 15 per cent of men are eating the recommended intake of fruit and vegetables, with unemployed people and [...]
New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on health service usage and health-related actions have revealed some interesting insights. With regard to healthy food access, reports from GPs (an Australia-wide survey) say that the most common lifestyle issues discussed (by [...]