Sports & Fitness topics
Sports nutrition and hydration
Nutrition is an important part of staying fit and healthy. Learn more about healthy eating and drinking for sports.
Achieving an adequate diet
A constant daily intake of nutritious foods is necessary for good health. Tiredness, irritability and excessively dry skin may be due to an inadequate diet.
Antioxidants
Antioxidants, naturally occurring substances beneficial to our health, prevent oxidation of substances known as free radicals.
Caffeine poisoning rises due to energy drinks
Alarming rise in caffeine poisoning cases leads Australian researchers to call for better labelling of caffeinated energy drinks.
Dehydration
Dehydration is the excessive loss of body fluids. Our bodies need a certain amount of fluid daily to maintain all the body systems with the minimum considered to be 4 glasses of fluid per day (the ideal amount is considered to be 8 glasses).
Dietary fibre
A diet that's high in fibre is good for your health. Find out how to get enough fibre in your diet.
Dietary guidelines for healthy eating
Here are some quick tips to help you follow the NHMRC dietary guidelines to give yourself a healthy and nutritious diet.
Drinking water
Along with oxygen, water is one of the 2 most essential materials for human life.
Exercise and fat intake
Everyone needs some fat in their diet, as your body always prefers to use the most available fuels. If you eliminate all fats, your body will worry about the lack of dietary fats.
Food labels: a guide to reading nutrition labels
Knowing your way around a food label can help you to make more informed choices about the food that you eat.
Fruit and lung function
Eating fresh fruit on a regular basis has been shown to improve lung function in children.
Iron and your body
Iron deficiency can be due to inadequate amounts of iron in the diet and body stores, or to insufficient numbers of blood cells - anaemia.
Nutrition and hydration for exercise
Find out how to maintain hydration and nutrition levels before, during and after exercise.
Nuts in a healthy diet
Nuts are high in protein, carbohydrates and fibre as well as containing many vitamins and minerals.
Sports drinks not worth their salt during exercise
Overconsuming sodium-containing sports drinks is associated with low salt levels after exercise and may have led to illness and deaths, a UK expert says.
Vegetarian diet
Many people are choosing to be vegetarians, but worry if their diet is adequate.
Vitamins
Vitamins are important for many daily bodily functions, such as growth and cell reproduction.
Water excess a risk for Kokoda trekkers
Exercise-associated hyponatraemia - low blood salt levels linked to exercise and drinking too much water - is a concern among Kokoda trekkers, study suggests.
A constant daily intake of nutritious foods is necessary for good health. Tiredness, irritability and excessively dry skin may be due to an inadequate diet.
Antioxidants
Antioxidants, naturally occurring substances beneficial to our health, prevent oxidation of substances known as free radicals.
Caffeine poisoning rises due to energy drinks
Alarming rise in caffeine poisoning cases leads Australian researchers to call for better labelling of caffeinated energy drinks.
Dehydration
Dehydration is the excessive loss of body fluids. Our bodies need a certain amount of fluid daily to maintain all the body systems with the minimum considered to be 4 glasses of fluid per day (the ideal amount is considered to be 8 glasses).
Dietary fibre
A diet that's high in fibre is good for your health. Find out how to get enough fibre in your diet.
Dietary guidelines for healthy eating
Here are some quick tips to help you follow the NHMRC dietary guidelines to give yourself a healthy and nutritious diet.
Drinking water
Along with oxygen, water is one of the 2 most essential materials for human life.
Exercise and fat intake
Everyone needs some fat in their diet, as your body always prefers to use the most available fuels. If you eliminate all fats, your body will worry about the lack of dietary fats.
Food labels: a guide to reading nutrition labels
Knowing your way around a food label can help you to make more informed choices about the food that you eat.
Fruit and lung function
Eating fresh fruit on a regular basis has been shown to improve lung function in children.
Iron and your body
Iron deficiency can be due to inadequate amounts of iron in the diet and body stores, or to insufficient numbers of blood cells - anaemia.
Nutrition and hydration for exercise
Find out how to maintain hydration and nutrition levels before, during and after exercise.
Nuts in a healthy diet
Nuts are high in protein, carbohydrates and fibre as well as containing many vitamins and minerals.
Sports drinks not worth their salt during exercise
Overconsuming sodium-containing sports drinks is associated with low salt levels after exercise and may have led to illness and deaths, a UK expert says.
Vegetarian diet
Many people are choosing to be vegetarians, but worry if their diet is adequate.
Vitamins
Vitamins are important for many daily bodily functions, such as growth and cell reproduction.
Water excess a risk for Kokoda trekkers
Exercise-associated hyponatraemia - low blood salt levels linked to exercise and drinking too much water - is a concern among Kokoda trekkers, study suggests.
