Arthritis

Find the fridge: spoiled foods cost business a fortune

Adrian Lowe Unless you would like a date with the porcelain, put your lunch in the fridge.

Here's the catch

Paula Goodyer Fish oil's reputation for protecting our hearts and minds has taken some hits lately. Despite earlier promises of a benefit for ageing brains, one study reported last year that omega-3 supplements...

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Fishing for answers

Paula Goodyer Fish oil might not fix dementia, but it could make a difference to our moods or our hearts

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The good food

Ginger up

Graham Osborne This humble root is a veritable elixr in plant form. Just ask the ancient Romans.

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Diet and disease: what's the link?

Carole Hungerford might be a GP, but she is not a fan of the way the business of medicine works. Not even close. ''Mainstream medicine is run by the drug companies.

All pumped up to give illness the boot

Janet Hawley People with chronic health problems are discovering that there is a miracle drug that can help them. It's called exercise.

Eat your weeds

Once were weeds - now superfoods

Graham Osbourne Put down the poison, those "weeds" are nutrient-rich herbs.

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Weird science

Method to alternative medicine madness

Luke Malone Cupping, leeches, urine therapy. Alternative therapies can be strange - but surprisingly effective.

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Food for thought

Eat right, stay young

Teresa Cutter Do you ever think about how your life will be in 10, 20 or even 40 years? Will you be physically fit and healthy, running on the beach, swimming in the ocean or riding bikes with your kids or...

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Art of ageing gracefully

Teresa Cutter Do you ever think about how your life will be in 10, 20 or even 40 years? Will you be physically fit and healthy, running on the beach, swimming in the ocean or riding bikes with your kids or...

Food for Thought

The quality of life diet

Teresa Cutter Osteoporosis is a disease characterised by porous and fragile bones. It occurs when bones lose their density, making them extremely susceptible to fractures.

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A body built to last

Teresa Cutter Osteoporosis is a disease characterised by porous and fragile bones. It occurs when bones lose their density, making them extremely susceptible to fractures.

Hooked on health

If anything we eat is worthy of being called a ''superfood'' it has to be fish. Studies have proven fish oil can help alleviate a seemingly endless list of conditions, from heart disease to...

'Emotionally draining'

Old person's disease that creeps up on the young and sporty

Mark Metherell ONE-TIME Australian netballer Alison Broadbent has endured two cruciate ligament operations and now suffers osteoarthritis in her knees - largely preventable if she had performed simple exercises in...

The politics of fat in the 21st century

Nick Galvin Acceptance is the new buzzword among some participants in the great weight debate, but how far can they push it?

Shady issue

Slip, slop or scare tactic?

Sarah Berry Has the sun smart message gone too far? A number of scientists say yes.

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Weighty issue

Ever-expanding waistlines mean obese dominate

Amy Corderoy There is nothing more certain than death and taxes, but now most Australians can add one more thing to that list: an ever-expanding waistline.

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Healer with the magic touch

Jim O'Rourke FOR close to 50 years Johnny Munro has been massaging, stretching and soothing thousands of tired, broken and injured bodies, from pensioners to dancers and elite sporting types.