What is the second deadliest cancer in Australia?
June is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. So what do we need to be aware of? Most people think that bowel cancer is an older person’s disease. It’s not. Although the risk of bowel cancer increases [...]
Too much of a good thing
Even though eating the recommended amount of fibre helps prevent diabetes, if you have long-standing diabetes (usually over 10 years), your stomach can become less effective at emptying due to a [...]
Ready, aim, fibre!
Why is something destined for the toilet so important to our health? Dietary fibre (also known as ‘roughage’ or ‘bulk’) is the indigestible portion of plant foods. It passes relatively unchanged [...]
