Celiac disease is a disease of the small intestine related to gluten intake. So should those with it be avoiding gluten, wheat or both? Dr Regina Belski.

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Celiac Disease: Gluten-Free or Wheat-Free?

What becomes more important nutritionally the older you get? Dr Andrea Bramley.

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What is a Healthy Diet for an Older Person?

Is pregnancy really eating for two? What is a healthy weight to gain during pregnancy? Dr Regina Belski.

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What is a Healthy Pregnancy Weight?

Is fruit juice good for you, or is it just pushing too much sugar into our diets? Dr Andrea Bramley.

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Is Fruit Juice Good for You?

Are nuts good for you or bad for you? What is a 'good nut'? Dr Regina Belski has the answer.

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Are Nuts Good for Your Health?

Assoc Professor Catherine Itsiopoulos (Head of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, La Trobe University) on the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet, one of the most respected and prescribed diets in the world.

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Health Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet

This lecture introduces the concepts of over and under- nutrition, discussing some of the causes and problems associated with obesity as well as introducing current approaches to weight management. It then moves to introducing under-nutrition and discussing causes and consequences with a focus on the developing world.

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Over and Under-Nutrition

What do bones and Aero chocolates have in common? This lecture focusses on the micronutrients that have important roles in bone health.  It describes the interactive roles and functions of: Vitamin D, Vitamin K, Calcium, Magnesium and  Fluoride in maintaining bone health.

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Nutrients for Bone Health

What does vitamin K have to do with blood health? This lecture focusses on the micronutrients that have important roles in blood health.  It describes the interactive roles and functions of : Vitamin K, Folate, Vitamin B12, Iron and  Iodine in maintaining blood health.

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Nutrients for Blood Health

What are antioxidants? What are they good for? Where do I get them from? This lecture focusses on the micronutrients that act as antioxidants in the body scavenging free radicals.  It describes the interactive roles and functions of the main nutrients that act as antioxidants in the body, including: Vitamin E, Vitamin C, Beta-carotene and Selenium.

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Micronutrients as Antioxidants

This lecture focusses on the micronutrients that play a key role in energy metabolism.  It describes the interactive roles and functions of the main nutrients involved in Energy Metabolism including the B-vitamins: thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, B6 and biotin.

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Micronutrients in Energy Metabolism

How much calcium does the body need, and are there any other good food sources apart from milk? What can happen if I don’t consume enough minerals? This lecture introduces the marco-minerals, their roles in the body, NRVs and good food sources. Minerals discussed include: calcium, chloride, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and sulphur.

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Macro-Minerals

Are carrots really good for your eyes? What about vitamin C supplements? Have you always wondered what the different vitamins in your multivitamin tablet do, and how much your body needs? Or whether you even need to take a multivitamin? This lecture introduces fat and water soluble vitamins, their roles in the body, NRVs and good food sources.

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Vitamins

This lecture introduces fats, their structure and functions in the body as well as how the body digests and metabolises them. It also talks about the different types of fats present in the foods that we eat. The final part of the lecture is designated to discuss how fat intake can impact on health.

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Fats

This lecture introduces the Australian and New Zealand Nutrient Reference Values and dietary guidelines, what are they? How are they established? What do they mean in terms of foods and dietary recommendations.

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Introduction to nutrient reference values

Why do we eat what we eat? The choice of food is extremely personal, and will have a big impact on our day to day lives. In this introduction lecture we'll examine the underlying building blocks of human nutrition, and have a review of the digestive system.

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Introduction to Human Nutrition

Dr Sue Shepherd (Dietetics and Nutrition, La Trobe University) on the causes and effects of Celiac Disease, and how it can be treated with a gluten free diet.

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Celiac Disease and Gluten Free Foods

Professor Mark L Wahlqvist AO (Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University and a leading expert on nutrition) on the mis-match between food supply and human needs.

It is associated with poverty, hunger and infectious disease at one extreme and with excessive and wasteful food usage, inactivity, and overfatness along with muscle and bone disorders at the other.
 
Underpinning these extremes is a food system that does not relate to energy needs or provide the required nutritional quality. As a consequence there is not a single body system or organ that is not potentially compromised. The full realisation of these problems for societal, mental and physical health is still becoming apparent.

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The Future of Food, Nutrition and Health

Assoc Professor Catherine Itsiopoulos (Dietetics, La Trobe University) on the Mediterranian diet and how adopting it can lead to healthier living.
 
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