Health conditions affecting newly arrived refugee children

A recent study has highlighted the need to screen newly arrived refugee children in Australia for common diseases and nutritional deficiencies (1).

Making Australia a healthier country by 2020.

The Australian Government has released the National Preventative Health Strategy which outlines how it will make Australia a healthier country by 2020. It plans to do this by addressing the major health issues of obesity, tobacco and alcohol and to close the health gap between indigenous and non indigenous populations.

Professor Lynne Daniels (Queensland University of Technology):The Nourish Study

How a child learns to eat is just as important for future growth and risk of obesity as what he actually eats. In this podcast Heather Ferguson, Corporate Nutritionist with Heinz, talks to Professor Lynne Daniels from the Queensland University of Technology about The Nourish Study.

Dr Bruce Neal (AWASH): Salt in children's diets

In this podcast, Heather Ferguson, Corporate Nutritionist with Heinz, talks to Dr Bruce Neal, Chair of the Australian Division of the World Action on Salt and Health (AWASH) about salt in children's diets. AWASH's goal is to get Australians to eat less salt and is currently working with the food industry to encourage them to reduce the salt content of their products.