It's not new — during the Great Depression, many Australians supplemented food from the markets with rabbits, dandelions and foraged fruit. It's important to be respectful in where and how you harvest — and be mindful of the safety of the produce. Avoid foraging nea...
Many cultures involve other forms of trials, ordeals or tests that the boy must successfully pass. Apache boys must take ice baths, while aboriginal Australians sent boys out on long foot journeys, known as walkabouts, where the boy would pick up and perfect hunting and surviving skills. Some...
Previous studies have suggested a link between diet and mental health. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding the association between emerging diets such as the EAT-Lancet reference diet (ELD) and the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodege
Few non-Australians are even aware that the 26-year-old Charles visited the continent in early 1836 on his round-the-world voyage in the HMSBeagle. The fresh-faced Cambridge grad had been invited on theBeaglebecause of his passion for natural history, and when he arrived in Australia, after...
It’s also been found to help improve fighting off depression, heart disease, cancer and fatigue, as well as many other things. What’s more, some evidence also suggests that getting enough vitamin D could enhance weight loss and decrease body fat. Why vitamin D is so important for your...
Brain-related disorders are common, with an estimated 40% of Australians experiencing a mental health disorder intheir lifetime. Our genetic findings reveal that larger regional brain volumes (the size of specific parts of the brain) are associated with a higher risk of Parkinson's disease. In ...
Today our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, announced that Australia will have an election on the 18th of May. When he announced the date, he said, that the election will be about whom we trust. He got that one right. I and many Australians don’t trust him. Not one bit. When he made...
1 In 2008, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that depression affected one million Australians and further stated that one in seven people will have depression at some point in their lives.2 Beyond Blue, an Australian organisation documented that depression-associated disability cost the ...
Bill Shorten, the recently sworn-in NDIS minister, is determined to “restore trust in the NDIS” since its inception and roll-out in the past nine years. While the scheme has been beneficial to many, its flaws have been widely documented including in a 2010 Productivity Commission report. ...
Like national surveys, burden of disease studies are extremely important for planning and funding health services. They use prevalence statistics, or how many people per 100,000 Australians are assumed to have a particular illness. Given we don't have good data on how prevalent eating disorders ...