Eating Well for Adults

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

Reviewed September 2011

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Title:   Dietary guidelines
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 2010
Title:   Micronutrient supplementation in children and adults with HIV infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Multiple micronutrient supplements offer some benefits and are safe in HIV-infected pregnant women and their offspring. Vitamin A and zinc supplements are beneficial and safe in HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children. Further research is needed to build ...
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   Eosinophilic oesophagitis
Publisher:   Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA)
Description:   Eosinophilic oesophagitis results in an inflamed oesophagus, the muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach. Most cases are seen in people with other allergies such as hay fever and asthma. The frequency of eosinophilic oesophagitis appears to be increasing.
Date:   Jan 2010
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:   Nov 2009
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:   Jan 2010
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. Keep fat and salt intake low and eat foods rich in calcium and iron. A good balance between exercise and food intake is important to maintain a healthy body weight.
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   20s to 30s
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Nutrition tips for age group 20s to 30s
Date:   Jun 2009
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:   Nov 2007
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:   Aug 2006
Title:   Calcium supplementation for the management of primary hypertension in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review did not find robust evidence that oral calcium supplementation reduces high blood pressure in adults. It reviewed 13 trials enrolling 485 people, which compared calcium supplementation with placebo or no treatment, and measured blood pressur...
Date:   May 2006
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. While there are many randomised controlled trials that have examined the relationship between low glycaemic index diets and coronary heart disease, most ar...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   Potassium supplementation for the management of primary hypertension in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review examines whether taking potassium supplements can be recommended for treating adults with high blood pressure from no known cause. The results of the trials varied a lot: some trials found potassium lowered blood pressure much more than a du...
Date:   Apr 2006
Title:   Zinc supplementation for the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Currently no evidence to suggest the use of zinc for the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes mellitus is associated with long-term complications, especially eye, kidney, nerve, heart and blood vessel disease. Type 2 diabetes is mainly charac...
Date:   Jun 2005
Title:   Iodised salt for preventing iodine deficiency disorders
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Iodine deficiency causes mental retardation in children as well as enlarged thyroid glands (goitre) and deficiencies in thyroid hormones in people of all ages. It still exists in large parts of the world. This review looked at studies of iodised salt in...
Date:   Aug 2004
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 reductio...
Date:   Nov 2003
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:   Bowel cancer causes and symptoms - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Diet is one of the main suspects in the hunt for the causes of bowel cancer.
Date:   Jan 2002
Title:   Nutrition in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: an information paper
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council
Description:   This report presents background information about nutrition and nutrition-related diseases in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and particularly the nutritional needs of women in pregnancy, parents, adolescents, children and people at risk of lifestyle-related ill-health.
Date:   Jul 2000
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:   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

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