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We found that over 12 years, women who had an unhealthy weight and had yo-yoed didn’t gain more weight than women who had never yo-yoed.
Policymakers need to stop focusing on schools to solve the obesity crisis.
Diets aren’t just about losing weight. There are other things to consider.
We turn to doctors to treat cancer, addiction and high blood pressure. And, they have a lot of training and tools to help us. Why is that not so with obesity?
Dieting fads have been around for more than a century, but none of them has been shown to curb obesity long-term. The good news is that scientific evidence is revealing treatments that do work.
More than half of dogs and cats around the globe are overweight. Are well-intentioned owners to blame?
Despite the efforts of millions of Americans, obesity rates continue to climb. Why is it so hard to lose weight and to keep it off? It’s a lot more complicated than just pushing back the plate.
Health care providers often recommend exercise to overweight people as a way to lose weight, but that often does not work. Injuries can occur, and frustration can mount. Can walking with them work?
Dieting is a setup. The act of dieting causes physiological changes that make it hard to continue dieting successfully. Here’s how the body fights back when some people try to lose weight.
It comes down to what and how much you eat over the day, rather than when you eat most of your food.
Losing weight is an effective treatment for type 2 diabetes, as well as a prudent preventive measure. Beliefs that it’s harder to lose weight when diabetic are unfounded.
Folk medicine has favoured apple cider vinegar for centuries and many claims are made for its supposed benefits. But what does the science say?
Women shouldn’t be disheartened by the latest finding that exercise doesn’t lead to weight loss in the first month or two. There are other reasons to persist.
For centuries, people have been trying to lose weight in all sorts of ways – including drinking vinegar, avoiding swamps and stocking up on grapefruit.
Coconut oil is being hailed as the new “superfood”, helping us lose weight and kill harmful bugs. But how do the claims stand up to scientific scrutiny?
…and then they need to record when remission occurs.
The price of weight loss is lifelong vigilance
Understanding how your brain responds to food could be the key to losing weight
Activity tracking devices are boosting people’s desire to make healthy lifestyle changes – and stick to them
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Charles Perkins Centre Research Program Leader, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Newcastle
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Research Associate, Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor of Nutrition, University of Surrey
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Professor, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Lead for Evidence-Based Medicine and Nutrition, Aston Medical School, Aston University
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Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University
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Senior Visiting Fellow, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Head of Division of Sport, Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Newcastle
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Assistant Professor in Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst
