20/02/2008  Food Addivities - Are They Harmful?
Unfortunately most people are consuming processed foods that contain alarming amounts of food additives. Food additives such as preservatives, colours, bleaches, flavours, emulsifiers and stabilisers allow food...

11/07/07 Trans Fats
In 1901 a German chemist Wilhelm Norman proved that liquid oils could become solid by a process called hydrogenation. This means that a liquid vegetable oil is heated in the presence of hydrogen to render it into a solid state (1).

23/04/07 CSIRO Total Welling being Diet
CSIRO total wellbeing was developed by Australia's largest research and development organisation, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation). It's a new high-protein...

16/01/2007 The Atkins diet – Is it a Fad diet or good for you? 004
When your body depletes its carbohydrate stores it switches to a chronic fasting mode and this is called Ketosis. Ketosis is a physiological response to chronic starvation which may result in tiredness, ....

 07/09/07 The carbohydrate phenomenon - do carbs make you fat?
It is common practice for people to label carbohydrates as the reason we are getting fatter and less healthy.

11/07/07 Lactose intolerance
Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest significant amounts of lactose, the major sugar found in milk. Lactose intolerance is caused by a shortage of the enzyme lactase, which is produced by the cells that line the small intestine.

15/11/2006 What is a fad diet? 003
A fad diet is a weight loss plan or aid that promises dramatic results. Typically these diets don't offer long-term success, and they are usually not very healthy, some actually being dangerous to ....