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Health Promotions And Lifestyle Shoalhaven, South Coast Nsw, Joanne Buckskin
Health Promotions And Lifestyle Shoalhaven, South Coast Nsw, Joanne Buckskin
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Health Promotion and the development of resources was the inspiration for this community based Shoalhaven Story Telling Project. It was envisaged that the resources produced from this project would be used in Health Promotion and reconciliation activities throughout the Illawarra.
Report On The Consumpton Of Vegetables And Fruit In Nsw, Victoria M. Flood, Debra Hector, Liz Story
Report On The Consumpton Of Vegetables And Fruit In Nsw, Victoria M. Flood, Debra Hector, Liz Story
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Increasing vegetable and fruit consumption in the New South Wales population is a key public health priority. There is little dispute that high vegetable and fruit consumption confers significant health benefits. Epidemiological evidence indicates that increasing intakes of vegetables and fruit decreases the risk of major chronic diseases including cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, diverticulitis, cataracts, macular degeneration, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. For optimal health benefits, the importance of consuming a variety of vegetables and fruit is stressed. It is also important that there appears to be a dose-response relationship between vegetable and fruit consumption and …