Australian women are not eating enough healthy food and exercising less, according to a study into women’s health.
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From $4.5bn profit to $2.7bn deficit: Aus food sector in crisis
New figures released this week have proven what most in the food processing sector already know: the industry is close to collapse.
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Wal-Mart offers discounts on healthy foods: should Australia follow suit?
America’s largest supermarket has teamed up with a leading insurance company to offer healthy foods at a reduced price.
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Zimbabwe urged to lift ban on GM food
The Zimbabwean government is being urged to lift its ban on genetically modified (GM) food.
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Children encouraged to try alcohol by booze companies: AMA
Australia’s leading medical body is again calling on the government to ban current advertising practises, which it says are encouraging children to try alcohol.
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Climate change will transform the bush … and we’ll have to think big to cope
Within decades, environments across Australia will be substantially different from those that currently exist.
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Buying local food most important to Aussies, research finds
Australians are more likely to buy locally grown foods than any other products, new research has shown.
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Boiling water without bubbles – that’s just our cup of tea
Imagine a specially-engineered surface that could allow liquids to boil without bubbling. This sounds counter-intuitive and, in a way, it is. But consider the following.
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Consumers misled over serving sizes: Choice calls for reform
Consumer watchdog Choice is calling for an overhaul to current labelling standards, after research revealed some manufacturers are misleading consumers over portion sizes to make their products seem healthier.
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Govt not amused by big tobacco’s plain packaging “sick joke”
The federal health minister has slammed big tobacco’s “sick joke,” which has seen the first two companies rolling out the plain packaging for cigarettes in ways that do not comply with the new standards.
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Australian, Italian researchers developing “super spaghetti”
Australian researchers are joining with experts from the land of the pasta to create a new “super spaghetti,” which would provide extensive health benefits for consumers.
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EU overhauls food labelling requirements
Consumers around the world are demanding greater transparency when it comes to food labels and it seems the EU is one of the governments that is listening.
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Branding drives children to make healthy choices too: study
Branding that’s targeted at children can make healthy food a more attractive option than unhealthy food, according to a new US study.
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Frankenfood or crops of the future? Gaps in the perception of GM food safety
Humans have always faced tricky safety problems with food because we eat plants, which are the most ingenious pesticide chemists on the planet.
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Steggles and Sydney Roosters join forces for children’s charities
Chicken supplier Steggles and NRL team the Sydney Roosters will donate more than $60 000 to and dedicate this Sunday’s match to four children’s charities.
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Dick Smith only wanted controversy: News Ltd
News Limited has offered its perspective on debate over its decision not to include marketing material from Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith in its papers.
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Supermarkets are killing farmers: Katter’s address to Parliament
Controversial Queensland MP Bob Katter has slammed the actions of Australia’s largest supermarkets, saying the market share between the big two is unsustainable and killing farmers.
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High Court rejects tobacco industry’s plain packaging appeal
The tobacco industry’s appeal against mandatory plain packaging was dismissed by the High Court this morning and the legislation will take effect from October.
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Govt needs to stop Coles and Woolworths dominance: lobby group
The representative body for smaller grocery retailers in Australia are again calling on fairer competition in the sector, releasing a report outlining the consequences if regulators and governments don’t step in.
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Bread prices to increase due to US drought, but who will absorb the cost?
Australia’s largest baker has confirmed that the price of bread will increase due to the US drought.
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