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They’re everywhere in hospitals, travellers’ backpacks and the aisles of pharmacies in winter, but do we really need to use alcohol-based hand sanitisers?
Beetroot, artificial colours, vitamin supplements, medications and illnesses can change the colour of your urine or bowel motions.
Our skin is a water-containing barrier that protects us from our environment.
To try and make eating fruit easier, get the most nutritionally from what we eat and avoid wastage, it is important to consider the best stage to eat fruits from harvesting to over-ripening.
Kids normally need a lot of extra nutrition during their adolescent growth spurt, and you might expect the appetite-suppressing effect of caffeine to result in poorer dietary intake and reduced growth.
The “common cold” is common, most of us will have at least one or two per year. Despite this, there’s a lack of good research looking into it, and ways to prevent and treat it.
Around 60% of Australians over the age of two years exceeded the recommended daily maximum intake of salt.
Common symptoms of man flu include inability to move off the bed or couch (whichever is nearest the television) and the more serious “losing the ability to do anything except groan in agony and claw at the uninfected”.
Many people aren’t interested in having sex or don’t feel sexual attraction to other people. Is it normal to be like this?
If you’re an average-sized adult eating and drinking enough to maintain a healthy body weight, you should consume no more than 12 teaspoons of sugar per day.
If you don’t alternate your posture at work, the stiffness can build, making it harder to straighten your spine. This can contribute to developing a hunched back.
Oral rehydration is the cornerstone of treatment for gastro, especially if you’re suffering from mild to moderate dehydration.
Research regularly shows when people try to do two things at once, they tend to do both tasks more poorly than if they’d only attempted one at a time.
Sex can often be a pleasurable experience. But it also has benefits some reports have compared to those of exercise. So can sex really count as a workout?
If you’re a non-scientist, you might have once asked yourself, propped against the bedhead after disappointingly quick intercourse, how long does sex “normally” last?
Growing pains are the most common childhood musculoskeletal condition resulting in frequent visits to healthcare professionals.
Squeezing and trying to pop pimples is definitely not the best solution and can actually make your skin worse.
Not getting enough quality sleep can have significant implications for health.
Burns are one of the most common injuries, affecting as many as 200,000 Australians each year.
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Dermatology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Retired nutritionist, Defence Science and Technology Organisation
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Specialist General Practitioner, and Conjoint Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Federation University Australia
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Consultant Dermatologist, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
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Director Of Medicine, The Maitland and Kurri Kurri Hospital, University of Newcastle
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Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Conjoint Clinical Associate Professor, Deakin University School of Medicine and Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Deakin University
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Adjunct lecturer and nutritionist, UNSW Sydney
