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Food, Nutrition and Dietetics at Deakin University

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Healthy eating with the Healthy Eating Advisory Service (HEAS)

 Our next blog is by Faye Chik, a first-year Master of Dietetics student at Deakin...

Get to know our students – Claudia Hartley

Our next blog is from Claudia Hartley, a PhD student from the CASS (Consumer, Analytical,...

Women’s Health Week: A Full Day of Meals to Boost your Iron Intake

Our next blog is from Elisa Metsikas. Elisa is a second year student at Deakin...

Healthy or Unhealthy? Health Star Ratings and our food choices

What is an unhealthy food? Usually, identifying ‘unhealthy’ foods is straight forward.  Most would agree...

Get to know our staff: Professor Judi Porter

Our latest blog is from Prof Judi Porter. Judi has recently commenced as Discipline Lead...

Halving Australia’s Food Waste by 2030 – What’s Being Done and Why?

Our next blog is from Tess Henderson. Tess is a student at Deakin University, currently...

Discretionary Foods: A Double-Coated Problem

Our next blog is from Hannah Arnold.  Hannah recently completed her Graduate Diploma of Lifestyle...

Our time in the ‘Top End’ – A rural placement with Deakin Dietetics

Our next blog post has been contributed by Alice Bleathman and Georgia Walker, dietetics students...

Babies benefit when breastfed for longer – new research

Babies benefit when breastfed for longer – new research   New research looking at the...

How to boost your fruit and veg intake

Most of us know we should be eating five serves of vegetables and two serves...

Pantry recipes from our PhD candidates

In the era of lockdowns and empty supermarkets, it can be hard to pull together...

How is your diet related to risk of type 2 diabetes?

Barbara Brayner is a PhD student in the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition supervised...

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