Double helping
Diet education theory cops a supersized blow
Melissa Davey People can be educated about the importance of eating sensible serving sizes - but their self-control will fly out the window the moment they are given a bulging plate of food.
Think twice
Supermarkets forced to put kilojoule labels on ready-to-eat meals
Melissa Davey Doughnuts, custard tarts, hot chickens and other ready-to-eat supermarket meals will now come with a label displaying their kilojoule content in the hope consumers will think twice before indulging.
The fat and the fiction
Melissa Davey What if eating fat does not make you fat? It is an idea that could turn decades of established thinking on its head.
You're pregnant! But should you tell?
Melissa Davey How long should a couple wait until revealing they're pregnant?
Specialist: lives at risk as doctors rely on 60-year-old heart test
Melissa Davey Tens of thousands of Australians could have undiscovered heart disease because the key method used by doctors to assess patients is outdated and grossly underestimates risk, a leading hypertension...
Fat fiction
The skinny on full-cream
Melissa Davey New study turns prevailing views about full-fat dairy on their head.
And the winner for the slackest is ... Sydney
Melissa Davey Sydneysiders have the lowest levels of physical activity among residents in Australia's capital cities, with a lack of recreational facilities partly blamed for keeping people on the couch.
No question, mother's milk lowers SIDS risk
Melissa Davey MOTHER of four Jacqui Soliman has spent more than four of the past six years breastfeeding. She has just stopped breastfeeding her 22-month-old daughter, Emily, and will continue to breastfeed 6.
Research
Children's soft drink use linked to disease
Melissa Davey PRECURSORY signs of cardiovascular disease can be seen in children as young as 12 who have a high intake of sugary drinks, Sydney researchers have found, which could have implications for the rates...
Soft drinks linked to child heart disease
Melissa Davey Initial signs of heart disease can be seen in children as young as 12 who have a high intake of sugary drinks, Sydney researchers have found, which could have implications for death rates in the...
Australian study
Language skills linked to mother's time in sun
Melissa Davey MOTHERS with low vitamin D levels during pregnancy are twice as likely to have children who experience language difficulties requiring clinical treatment, Australian scientists have found in research...
Unlikely critic: pockets
Melissa Davey There was a happy time when pockets were useful, a friend you could rely on to mind your keys, safe-keep your ID, hold on to the loose change that would - later in the night - come in handy for a...
Prime ministers, pop stars out to play
Melissa Davey IT WAS billed as the wedding of the century, the hottest ticket in town.
Cheers, big ears: Australia celebrates
Melissa Davey, Rachel Olding ROMANTICS, royalists and lapsed republicans alike raised their glasses across Australia during the ''Wills and Kate show'' last night.
'Education the way to stop food wastage'
Melissa Davey THE ''best before'' dates on food packaging in Britain will be scrapped to stop 8.3 million tonnes of food landing in the bin each year, but Australia should not be quick to follow suit, experts said.
Revealed: middle-aged men at most risk on two wheels
Melissa Davey, Clay Lucas HORDES of middle-aged men have taken up cycling in recent years for a range of reasons, from health to environmental.
Lines in the sand over beach plan for dogs
Melissa Davey SYDNEY loves its beaches, and many Sydneysiders love their dogs. But putting the two together is a recipe for furious division, as Warringah Council has discovered since it announced it might relax...
After the first caesarean, a second one is much more likely
Julie Robotham and Melissa Davey TRACY HART had intended to have her first child, Ariane, now 2½, naturally. But when Ariane failed to move into the normal birth position, Mrs Hart was told that a caesarean was the safest...
