A new study finds that 90% of men are overfat. But by what measure?
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The increase in cases of non-communicable diseases in developing countries has led to an emerging pattern of high levels of multimorbidity.
Understanding how your brain responds to food could be the key to losing weight
The evidence against low-calorie sweeteners is mounting. But that doesn’t mean natural sugar is better.
Enshrining the need for planning healthy built environments in legislation will help ensure the fundamental role planners have to play in facilitating healthy lifestyles.
Trillions of microorganisms living inside your digestive system may influence your health and even your weight. Here’s how your gut may communicate with your brain, bone marrow and immune system.
For most of the twentieth century, we were at war with microbes, leading to substantial changes in our body’s ecosystem. This has changed our diets, disease profile, moods and even personalities.
Health outcomes for rural Americans have steadily deteriorated in recent decades even as they’ve improved elsewhere. The GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will worsen the problem.
The Body Mass Index is used to assess the risk of lifestyle diseases, but the relationship between BMI and chronic illnesses remains far from simple.
While other cancer rates fall or remain static, liver cancer is on the rise. Here’s why we need to start paying attention.
Two new Cochrane reviews reveal that some interventions to tackle overweight and obesity in children do work, but only in the short term.
The benefits of a sugar tax go beyond mere health savings when obesity rates drop. Our new research predicts wider economic benefits due to more, healthier people in work.
A recent study found Australian soft drinks had higher concentrations of glucose than US soft drinks, which had more fructose. Does this mean Australian drinks are worse for health than US drinks?
Of the 22,713 weight loss operations performed in 2014-15, about 90% were performed in private hospitals, highlighting the difficulty in accessing this type of surgery through the public system.
To tackle global rising obesity rates, we need to focus on food insecurity.
It’s not all about the gym and your diet. The places where we live and work shape our health, too.
The ABC’s new show Ask the Doctor goes some way to explain the many contributors to obesity. So, why spoil it with the take-home message that willpower is all you need to lose weight?
No wonder we’re addicted to junk food. Neuroscience shows food packaging affects our enjoyment of these foods, and plays on the same brain processes as hard drug addiction.
It’s time we considered the long-term benefits of community weight loss programmes to both individuals and society.
South Africa has the highest obesity levels in Africa but blaming sugar neglects the many factors at play in this complex health issue.
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
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Charles Perkins Centre Research Program Leader, University of Sydney
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Epidemiology & Equity in Public Health & Director, Institute Health Transformation, Deakin University
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Professor of Medicine, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
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Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
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D.Phil. Candidate in Population Health, University of Oxford
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Executive Manager of Food for Health Alliance ; Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research Impact, Australian Catholic University
