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Is a paleo diet plan healthy? | Dietitians Australia

Is Paleo as healthy as the influencers say? We look at the evidence to see if we should really eat like ancient humans.

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Fad diets | Dietitians Australia

A fad diet is an eating plan that often promotes quick and easy weight loss or radically improved health. Fad diets can be tempting as they offer a quick fix to either real or perceived problems. But they have little scientific evidence to support their claims.

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Body image and diets - Better Health Channel

Some people diet because they have a poor body image, not because they want to be a healthy weight.

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LiveLighter - Low-carb craze: Should we avoid carbohydrates?

We see endless weight loss diets suggesting that we ditch the carbs. These diets claim that cutting carbs will lead to weight loss, but is that the truth? And should we really be avoiding them?

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Nutrition – Crohn’s & Colitis Australia (CCA)

For more than 30 years, Crohn’s & Colitis Australia has been empowering the more than 100,000 Australian's living with Crohn’s disease or IBD.

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Weight loss - common myths - Better Health Channel

There are no magical foods, or ways to combine foods, that melt away excess body fat.

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