It is breakfast time at the Yuendumu child care centre. Fruit and cereal are on the menu and around twenty kids are tucking in....

Sam grew up in Adelaide yet lives in one of the most remote areas in the country. Her home is Yuendumu, 300 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs on the edge of the Tanami Desert, only accessible by four wheel drive....

It's breakfast time at the Yuendumu child care centre. Fruit and cereal are on the menu and around twenty kids are tucking in. For some, this meal and the morning tea and lunch to follow will be only food of nutritional value they will eat all day....

Over the years remote stores in Aboriginal communities have gained a reputation for high prices and fatty foods. But recently there has been a sustained campaign to turn this around and pack the shelves with nutritional, value for money food....

Local artist, Suzy Lyon has created what judges have described as an "anti oxidant bomb" for the second heat of the Bush Foods Cooking Competition at the Alice Springs Desert Festival. ...

Now to an issue of growing concern to many of our Pacific Island neighbours, with new research revealing the region faces a growing problem with alcohol. A report, commissioned by the Australian National Council on Drugs and compiled by the Burnet Institute, shows increasing availability of ...

Australian chef Stephanie Alexander has backed Jamie Oliver's call to get children into cooking....

A new venture, the Home Grown School Feeding Project, aims to provide food for underfed children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rather than importing food from donor countries, they focus on providing the food from local sources....

In this program we look at some of the possible causes of childhood obesity and what effect genes may have on eating behaviour. We also talk to a researcher who's involved in developing ways to help children and their parents to combat childhood obesity. ...

Mounting evidence on the effect of micronutrients on DNA damage calls for a re-evaluation of recommended dietary intake values, say researchers....