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Beverages
Beverages include drinking water, milk, soft drinks, tea, coffee and cocoa, and alcoholic beverages.
Follow the links below to find information about the health effects of drinking different types of beverages.
Reviewed August 2011
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| Title: | Snacks for children - easy read |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Food for child care, kindy, school, home and outings. Children need a range of healthy foods to grow, learn and play. |
| Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Title: | Child nutrition - juices and sweet drinks |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Encourage children to drink and enjoy water. Sweet drinks such as juice, cordial and soft drinks may cause health problems for children if consumed in large amounts. Problems may include tooth decay, diarrhoea and a poor appetite. |
| Date: | May 2011 |
| Title: | Gastroenteritis |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Information about gastro for babies and children in Australia. The advice may not fit children from other countries. |
| Date: | May 2011 |
| Title: | Protein shakes |
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| Publisher: | Virtual Medical Centre.com |
| Description: | A protein shake is a high protein beverage, usually prepared by mixing a specially formulated, high-protein powder with liquid. Here is some information on protein shakes. |
| Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Title: | Lunch box tips |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Healthy lunches and snacks are important for active children. It is important to offer healthy lunch box choices. Tips include fresh fruit, crunchy vegetables and a combination of protein, dairy and carbohydrate foods. Children who help choose and prepare their own lunch are more likely to eat it. |
| Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Title: | Choose water as a drink |
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| Publisher: | NSW Department of Health |
| Description: | A simple fact sheets that promotes the consumption of water as a drink for children - includes information on why water is important, tips to encourage children to drink water, facts about milk, juice and sweetened drinks |
| Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Title: | Nutrition and hydration |
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| Publisher: | CareSearch |
| Description: | A long contended issue in palliative care is that of providing or withholding food and fluids at the end of life. Providing food and fluids is an emotive issue and has great meaning to many people, often relating to comfort and nourishment and to the giving of life. |
| Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Title: | Water, milk, juice and soft drinks |
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| Publisher: | Raising Children Network (RCN) |
| Description: | A guide to drinks for children, with information on deciding which drinks and fluids are best for your child and when to introduce drinks and fluids. Includes information on cow's milk, water, fruit juice and soft drinks, and tips on getting children to drink lots of water. |
| Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Title: | Introducing drinks |
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| Publisher: | Raising Children Network (RCN) |
| Description: | Information about introducing water and cows milk to babies, what babies should drink, what drinks are good for babies, and why fruit juice, soft drinks, soy milk and similar products are unsuitable for babies. |
| Date: | Nov 2009 |
| Title: | Drinks for babies and toddlers |
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| Publisher: | Queensland Health |
| Description: | This factsheet is about the sugar content of drinks and how to encourage children to drink more water and milk rather than juices, soft drinks and Vitamin C drinks. |
| Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Title: | Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Cranberries (usually as cranberry juice) have been used to try and prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs). Cranberries contain a substance that can prevent bacteria from sticking on the walls of the bladder. This may help prevent bladder and other urin... |
| Date: | Sep 2007 |
| Title: | Pharmacological treatments for psychosis-related polydipsia |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Schizophrenia is a serious, chronic and relapsing mental illness with a worldwide lifetime prevalence of about one percent. An uncommon but serious complication of psychotic illness is polydipsia, the intake of more than three litres of fluids per day. ... |
| Date: | Aug 2006 |
| Title: | Preoperative fasting for adults to prevent perioperative complications |
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| 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: | Bladder habits - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Learning some good habits in earlier years can prevent many inconvenient bladder problems. |
| Date: | May 2002 |
| Title: | Early compared with delayed oral fluids and food after caesarean section |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Drinking and eating again soon after caesarean section does not seem to cause women any problems, and may even speed recovery. There is a lot of variation in policies about when women are allowed to eat or drink after caesarean section. In some hospital... |
| Date: | May 2002 |
| Title: | Posture and fluids for preventing post-dural puncture headache |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Routine bed rest after dural puncture does not prevent the headache that may follow this procedure, but any role for fluid supplements remains unclear. Dural (usually lumbar) puncture involves passing a needle into the fluid-filled space around the spin... |
| Date: | Feb 2002 |
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