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Carolyn’s Dietician’s Day Banana and Walnut Cake
Carolyn’s Dietitian Day Banana and Walnut Cake Ingredients 2 cups of plain flour 1 cup of wholemeal plain flour 3 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda ¼ teaspoon nutmeg 1 ½ cups of firmly packed brown sugar ½ cup of olive oil margarine 2 large...
Coronavirus
Over 4000 people have had their primary vaccinations and first booster through the Alstonville Clinic. If it is more than 4 months since your last vaccination, and you are aged over 65 or are immunosuppressed, then you are eligible for a second booster. The...
Influenza Vaccination 2021
People who are eligible for free influenza vaccination (see below) can use this button to book their vaccination appointment.Flu vaccination clinics for 2022 have commenced. We are taling appointments for our flu vaccination clinics. Book online or ring the surgery...
Is General Practice good value for money?
Last year taxpayers spent A$6.3 billion on GP services through Medicare, about 6% of the total government health expenditure. The authors of the Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) program their assessment of whether this represented good value for...
Mediterranean Diet wins again!
Diabetes Care. 2014 Apr 10. [Epub ahead of print] The Effects of a Mediterranean Diet on Need for Diabetes Drugs and Remission of Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes: Follow-up of a Randomized Trial - Esposito K1, Maiorino MI, Petrizzo M, Bellastella G, Giugliano D. There...
Main meal at breakfast or dinner?
HHigh Caloric intake at breakfast vs. dinner differentially influences weight loss of overweight and obese women. [Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013] - PubMed - NCBI Having your main meal at breakfast, rather than dinner, has some benefits. However, I'm sticking to...