Food Health-e-Bytes

Apples can float in water because they are 25% air.

Cucumbers are 96% water and are one of the most hydrating foods you can eat.

Fruit-flavoured snacks contain the same wax that is used on cars.

‘There’s so much confusion and conflicting advice,
I don’t even know if I should eat a bowl of rice!’

If you want to cut through the myths and misinformation about what, when and how much to eat, read Dr Helena’s Heath-e-Bytes here.

Trick or treat?

Last week I flew to Melbourne to speak at the National Dementia Conference. The first thing I saw at the airport when I stepped off the plane was a billboard for ‘The Brain Drink’ pictured above. [...]

Rush, crash, crave, repeat

What better time than immediately after Easter to talk about sugar?  Is there really such a thing as a sugar rush? What about a sugar crash? Sugar cravings? Sugar addiction? Click here to listen [...]

Not all Calories are equal

The average person extracts 6 Calories from eating a medium-sized piece of raw celery. If you cook that same piece of celery, you begin to break down the cellulose (indigestible fibre) and end up [...]

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