Nutrition in the News
Obesity epidemic a hazard for kids…
Helen Tobler, The Australian, 11 June 2011
When Byron kept gaining weight as a child, reaching 62kg by the time he was 10, his parents couldn’t work out why. Byron started complaining of being thirsty all the time, his GP sent him to the Children’s Hospital in Westmead in Sydney, where they discovered he had insulin resistance, a precursor to type II diabetes… click here for full article
Kitchen has meals by the million…
Goya Bennett, Hume Weekly, 24 August 2010
Ten years ago it was a dream. Last week, world-renowned French architext Francois Tesniere opened the doors to a $24 million kitchen in Altona. Trading as a community chef, it will supply meals on wheels to 20 municipalities, including Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Hume, Melton and Moonee Valley…click here for full article
Better health at your fingertips…
Better healthy channel, September 2011
On Tuesday 20 September the Minister for Health David Davis launched the free Better Health Channel iPhone and iPad app. The mobile app will provide Victorian health consumers with local health services information and access to Better Health Channel conditions and treatment fact sheets, and seeks to empower Victorians to manage their own healthy and wellbeing…click here for full article
Triple parma hits the menu in Melbourne…
Christopher Gillett, Herald Sun, August 2010
It’s a meal that promises not to leave any diner asking for seconds, and has been labelled “a heart attack on a plate” by dietitians. For three years, the Albion Hotel has challenged anyone willing to tacle the “Grandeoso”, a double chicken parma. Now it has been upgraded…click here for full article