June 2025. Listen here: And available everywhere you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/thehealthyhandful About this episode Front-of-pack nutrition labelling tools are designed to help consumers make healthier food choices and support a balanced diet. One such tool is Australia’s Health Star Rating (HSR) system, which assigns foods a rating from 0.5 to 5 stars. These ratings … Continue reading Episode 54 – Improving the HSR for nuts
Client/patient resource. Our practical fact sheet summarises the nutrition and health benefits of nuts. We share the facts (and bust some myths) on always-topical areas such as: ✓ The truth about nut fat, kilojoules, and weight ✓ Are nuts expensive? ✓ How nuts contribute to daily protein intake ✓ Which nuts are best? ✓ Easy … Continue reading Fact sheet: Everything you need to know about nuts
Like many other plant foods, nuts contain anti-nutritional compounds (or ‘anti-nutrients’). Studies show that these natural plant compounds can make it harder for our bodies to absorb certain nutrients (1,2). But research suggests the health benefits of eating plant foods, like nuts, outweigh any negative nutritional effects from the anti-nutrients they contain (2). The most … Continue reading Are nuts high in anti-nutrients?
Health professional resource. The impact of nut consumption on heart disease risk has been extensively investigated since the publication in 1992 of the Adventist Health Study, which linked regular nut consumption, for the first time, with a lower risk of coronary heart disease (3). Since then, a wealth of consistent evidence has firmly established nuts … Continue reading Fact sheet: Nuts and cardiovascular health
April 2025. Listen here: And available everywhere you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/thehealthyhandful About this episode Each year, Australians waste approximately 7.6 million tonnes of food across the entire supply chain – enough to fill a football stadium 10 times – at an annual cost of $36.6 billion to the economy. While much of this waste … Continue reading Episode 53 – Managing food waste in healthcare settings
The body of evidence about nuts and healthy ageing continues to grow, with new local and international research papers regularly published. Body of evidence Association of nut consumption and sarcopenia in Chinese older adults. (Xu et al, 2025).This study gathered data on nut consumption and sarcopenia from the 2018 wave of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy … Continue reading Healthy ageing research
Healthy dietary patterns, including those that incorporate nuts, benefit gut health. And a healthy gut, in turn, plays a crucial role in overall health. In recent decades, research has explored the relationship between the community of microorganisms in the gastrointestinal system (the gut microbiota) and their influence on digestion, immunity and disease prevention (1). Did … Continue reading Nuts and gut health
Health professional resource. As nuts are an energy-dense food, due to the heart-healthy fats they contain, there’s a widespread perception that eating them will cause weight gain. But decades of research shows this is not true. Nuts are actually linked with a decreased risk of being overweight or obese, and regularly eating nuts reduces body … Continue reading Fact sheet: Nuts and weight
December 2024. Listen here: And available everywhere you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/thehealthyhandful About this episode Our 50th episode is a celebration of this milestone, and a wrap of the best of 2024! We reflect on the most interesting (and at times, surprising!) things we learnt in 2024, on a topic close to our hearts: nuts … Continue reading Episode 50 – Best of 2024
November 2024. Listen here: And available everywhere you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/thehealthyhandful About this episode The population worldwide is ageing, and this is true for Australia’s population as well. One hundred years ago, five in every 100 people made it past the age of 65 years. Today, one in seven people make it past that … Continue reading Episode 49 – Nuts and healthy ageing
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