Our own Dr Dr Barbara R Cardoso talks all about the effects of nuts on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease ( #NAFLD ) in the latest The Healthy Handful #podcast Nuts For Life.

Check this out!🎙️👇

nutsforlife.com.au/resource/episo…

Monash Victorian Heart Institute Monash University School of Clinical Sciences

🚨 New from the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Nutrition!

A road map for implementing the decadal plan for the science of nutrition in the next five years 📈

>100 early & mid career professionals involved 🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏼‍♂️

#OpenAccess Dietitians Australia
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

Loved talking all about #nuts and #NAFLD in this Nuts For Life podcast.

HAPPY #IBS awarenessmonth 🎉

📢New #IBS publication!📚

Our PhD student Nessmah Sultan, with co-senior authors Jess Biesiekierski, PhD RNutr and Caroline Tuck PhD, AdvAPD, showed that disordered eating behaviours and orthorexia symptoms are common in patients with IBS 👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nm…

Data

💡Esperanza Martinez, ANU: When an old system has pressure to survive, new systems can only emerge by “coalescing good examples”; find pockets of change, coalesce & cultivate to gain momentum.
Ask: What can I do at my level & who do I partner with to achieve it.
#WHSMelbourne2024

At the #WHSMelbourne2024 launch of Health: A Political Choice. Advancing Indigenous People's rights and wellbeing with Guest Editors Prof Karen Adams from #Gukwonderuk and Prof Cath Chamberlain, Ilona Kickbusch and WHS President Axel R. Pries.
Read here: bit.ly/hapc-IH

HAPPY #IBS awarenessmonth 🎉

#IBS Research Funding Success! Changing the way we use diet in gut disorders…

Dr Jess Biesiekierski, PhD RNutr was recently awarded an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant to support her research for the next 5 years 👏

Her team will examine the impact

Prof Tony Capon Monash University introducing fantastic session on leadership opportunities for SDGs and health World Health Summit

.Sharon Pickering Monash University welcoming everyone to the final plenary: #Geopolitics and #Health : Achieving #equity in a divided world

Our new paper found pts completing an electronic version of the Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST) from their hospital bedside is feasible, acceptable & potentially 💰 effective! Modeled to save $3.23 per patient. Read here 👇 loom.ly/fE4IzFI Led by Shelley Roberts 👏

Congratulations Shelley Roberts 25 years since publication of MST wonderful to see this work. The tool specifically designed to be completed by patients and carers in addition to members of health care team 👏👏

We had a promise that things would get better but that promise isn’t being delivered.
In the UK -
Life expectancy is going down! Health is getting worse for the poorest people.
Destitution, Food insecurity - scurvy, rickets, is in hospitals
Sir Michael Marmot #SDoH
#WHSMelbourne2024

Sir Sir Michael Marmot asserts that we need to do things differently, to ask people in communities what their priorities are & co-design & support the response & ‘move mountains together’.

The journey is as important as the destination.

#WHSMelbourne2024 #SDOH

“We’ve got the evidence of what you can do but we don’t have the lived experience.”

Sir Michael Marmot on the need to bring together the triangle that moves the mountain (Thai proverb):

People
Government
Knowledge (academia)

#WHSMelbourne2024

Sir Michael Marmot Sir Michael Marmot stating scurvy increasingly prevalent in UK. Recent publication by Monash Nutrition PHD student Janet Golder determined high prevalence of Vit C deficiency in an Australian acute care facility

And we’re off! Health and Thriving Communities plenary session featuring, Prof Tristan Kennedy Prof Marcia Langton AO Prof Helen Evans Riana Manuel and Sir Michael Marmot World Health Summit

Delighted to join these powerhouse women welcoming delegates from across the world to the World Health Summit, and to highlight the work Victoria is doing to address the inequities that continue to exist for women and First Nations people in our healthcare system.

#MonashWomensHealthAlliance is at #WHSMelbourne2024 hosting a panel of #womenshealth experts sharing knowledge on how digital technologies can improve quality, equity and access to healthcare for all women.

#WHSMelbourne2024 has begun with a wonderful Welcome to Country and Opening Ceremony, featuring 2024 WHS Intl Co-President and MNHS Dean Prof Christina Mitchell, VicHealth CEO Dr Sandro Demaio, Asst. Minister for Health Ged Kearney, Djirri Djirri dancers and other special guests.

Earth Day 2024 🌏 is an important reminder to recognise the interactions between nutrition, our food system, and the natural environment.

This year’s theme is ‘Planet vs. Plastics’

Food packaging plastics contribute the largest proportion of plastic waste polluting our