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Written by Yuan Han Len, Amina Al-Sharaa, Mariah Issa and Dr Rebecca Raeside Injectable peptides are becoming more visible on social media, especially among young people through fitness, wellness, and body transformation content. Scroll through TikTok or Instagram, and you may come across videos from unqualified individuals promoting peptides for faster weight loss, muscle recovery, anti-ageing, or gym performance. As dietetics students, we are seeing more conversations about

By Erin Woodley and Madeline Turner Welcome Week is the much-anticipated event signalling the start of the university academic year. It is celebrated with many freebies, most of which contain the university students' not so secret weapon - caffeine. Pushing through the excited crowds of people at Welcome Week made us reflect on how we view caffeine on campus. Example Loot. Source: Screen shot of Sydney_uni Instagram Stories The caffeine culture on university campuses is int

By Cherie Chan and Chen Ma, Master of Nutrition and Dietetic Students, University of Sydney To help students with the rising cost of living, this semester, the University of Sydney Union (USU) introduced $5 lunches at Laneway, serving over 500 meals daily. As dietetic students undertaking our public health placement, we sampled the meals offered and gathered feedback from our peers. We also explored the nutritional value, size, taste, and overall contribution to student’s cam

As part of their six-week public health placement, Master of Nutrition and Dietetic students Noa Blair and Jack Ko have been supporting our project on Healthy Food Environments Around Transport Hubs. One of their key tasks involved ground-truthing: verifying digital data by visiting locations in person. Here, they share their reflections and lessons learned from the process. "Ground-truthing is the gold standard of information verification. It involves actually going to locat