Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food

The idea of consuming a diet primarily consisting of protein and fat may be unappealing to many, the ketogenic (or keto) diet is popular, with 11.8 million hits on Google and the hashtag #ketodiet being used 5.2 million times on Instagram. According to Professor Helen Truby, one reason why inducing ketosis is a popular weight loss strategy is its appetite suppressant effect. Surely this is a great selling point for this weight loss method. Read more about this fascinating topic on the Monash Nutrition Blog. http://ow.ly/ExE950ukuZu

Are edible nature strips and subsidised worm farms the future? Our global population is expected to reach nearly 10 billion people in 2050, requiring our planet to produce more food. This is problematic on two levels; firstly, trends in climate change impacts pose great threats to the planet’s capacity to produce more food into the future, and secondly, our current food system, predominantly industrialised, is accelerating the impact of climate change. Watch as Liza Barbour from Monash Nutrition explores this topic with the Royal Society of Victoria.

Despite public perception, food stress or food insecurity isn't limited to low-income families and is a very real issue for middle-income families.The challenging aspect of this situation is that most middle-income families already have good budgeting and home cooking skills, pointing to the need for policies for affordable food and utilities, and more secure employment. Monash Nutrition researcher Dr Sue Kleve explores this very real, and very serious situation with Herald Sun reporter Karen Collier http://ow.ly/GGe830oV3Jj

Maintaining diet induced weight loss is physiologically challenging and brings with it compensatory responses on both sides of the energy balance equation which are driven by a cross talk between the gut and brain. The result - an increase in appetite and reduction in satiety (feelings of fullness) combined with an overall reduction in energy expenditure. The bad news continues, statistically speaking most people will regain weight they have lost through dieting. This is in part due to limited strategies available to manage these feelings of hunger. We explore weight management and point the spotlight on the ketogenic (or keto) diet on the Monash Nutrition Blog. Check it out here: http://ow.ly/ExE950ukuZu