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December 11, 2011

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International No Diet Day

International No Diet Day…

The 6th May of each year is International No Diet Day and young Australian women and women from all over the world are told to go out and eat cake. But at the same time this day highlights the problems associated with constant dieting. Instead body image should be focused on, women should be allowed to be seen as individuals and be accepted for who they are.

This day will also help to promote healthy eating habits.

Many young women are on diets because of peer pressure and the pressure to be thin. A lot of women also have disorders that don’t help in their fight to stay slim and the pressure makes it worse for them.

Because of the expectations of young women in our communities, dieting constantly leads to a lot of eating disorders such as Bulimia and Anorexia and malnutrition.

If you are constantly dieting or would like to share your story with us, please email your information to My Personal Diet Story.

December 11, 2011

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CSIRO Diet

Questions raised over CSIRO diet

It might be a best-seller, but a leading Australian nutritionist says a popular Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) diet is baffling those battling the bulge.

Prime Minister John Howard has been asked to review the book The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet, on concerns from Rosemary Stanton and medico John Tickell that the diet recommends high amounts of red meat.

The pair wrote to Mr. Howard, saying the high meat content in the diet contravenes the government’s own dietary advice.

The Government’s Australian Guide to Health Eating recommends consumption of 65 to 100g of lean red meat three to four times per week, but the new book advocates up to 300g of meat daily.

Ms Stanton said today the popular diet from the government-related agency, which has sold more than 500,000 copies in Australia so far, was better than the Atkins diet because it did allow a small amount of grains-based food.

But she said it was confusing those desperate to shed the kilos.

“They’re (dieters) saying why do our dietary guidelines tell us to eat 65 to 100g of lean red meat three to four times a week,” Ms Stanton told Macquarie Radio.

“And yet the CSIRO diet says 200g of meat at night and then another 100g of meat, chicken or fish at lunch. What do I do? Which one do I follow?”

She said the diet was based on a CSIRO study of 100 women.

Half the women were put on a red meat diet while half were put on a diet equally low in calories and equally low in fat, but with much less meat.

Both groups achieved a relatively similar weight loss.

“And yet that’s not the message we’re getting,” Ms Stanton said.

She said she was concerned research money for the book came from Meat and Livestock Australia and they had promoted the diet heavily.

“I suppose you can’t be sure, but you’d have to wonder if the diet would have been popular if it hadn’t gotten so much promotion from some very effective public relations people,” Ms Stanton said.

December 11, 2011

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New Coeliac Disease Treatment

Gluten Free Foods and Diets

Many people in the world suffer from what is known as Coeliac Disease. A disease which is looked at closely. Sufferers have to endure a gluten free diet but sometimes that is hard to do especially when they dine in restaruants or dine with friends. There maybe no way of telling how much gluten is in the meal they are about to enjoy. Today on ABC News Online and other news programs information in regards to a study and testing of a treatment were disclosed…

I listened to the news and even though this will not stop people from having to have a gluten free diet it will make it easier for them when they dine out and not the gluten levels in the food they are eating…. Read on…

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New coeliac disease treatment easy to digest…There is new hope for people who suffer from the debilitating stomach condition, coeliac disease.

The disease affects people who lack the enzymes to digest gluten, which is a substance found in most cereals.

Now Australian doctors have developed a substitute for the missing enzymes to offer sufferers relief and a broader diet.

Patients with coeliac disease suffer cramps and fatigue.

If untreated, it can lead to more serious illnesses such as anaemia and osteoporosis.

Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have developed a treatment that restores the gluten-processing enzymes, ending a very long wait for patients.

“This use of enzymes is quite a breakthrough because patients have only had use of a gluten-free diet for the last 50 years,” biochemist and Professor Hugh Cornell, from RMIT, said.

Jennifer Angwin took part in the first trial of the supplement at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

She took the pills just before eating foods high in gluten and found the reaction was reduced.

“To have the opportunity to take the capsules and know the likelihood of an attack is far diminished would be wonderful,” Ms Angwin said.

The new treatment is not designed to replace a gluten-free diet.

But researchers say it could be used as a safeguard when patients do not know what is in the food they are eating.

“This supplement would be used, for example, where patients are eating out in restaurants or [with] friends and they weren’t confident about the level of gluten exclusion by the cook in those settings,” Dr Finlay Macrae, head of the colorectal department of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, said.

After the success of the first trial, the treatment will be tested on a bigger group of volunteers.

Doctors hope it will be available at the end of next year.