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We all want to eat healthily, especially as we reset our health goals at the start of a new year. But sometimes these plans are sabotaged by powerful cravings for sweet, salty or carb-heavy foods.
Don’t believe the hype about products claiming they can help you live longer. Here are five lifestyle changes to prioritise instead.
Many of us gain weight over Christmas and spend more than we’d like entertaining. Here’s how to keep both in check.
When we change our diet, we disrupt our appetite hormones. Here’s how it works – and how small changes to our diet can help us feel fuller for longer.
Ads for targeted fat loss, especially
for belly fat, are everywhere on social media. But is there any evidence to support this type of ‘spot reduction’?
Like most weight-loss programs, the OMAD diet makes bold promises – and comes with risks.
Australian of the year Taryn Brumfitt has called for doctors to avoid raising the issue of weight in consultations about other matters. We asked the experts if they should – or not.
BMI was created to describe the average man in the 1800s. It shouldn’t be used to predict health.
New Canadian clinical practice guidelines for obesity aim to help reduce the prevalence and impact of weight bias and stigma in clinical care, and also encourage the public to advocate for change.
On your daily walk take in real people. It might make you kinder to your own body during the Coronavirus lockdown
One in four Australians is overweight or obese by the time they reach adolescence, but it’s difficult to predict who is at risk. These three questions can help.
When a manufacturer lists a serving size on their food label, it’s based on their expectations of what you’ll eat, not what the dietary guidelines recommend.
Diets like mono, charcoal detox, Noom, time-restricted feeding and Fast800 are growing in popularity. Here’s what the evidence says about them.
We need to change how we produce, ship, eat and waste food to improve our health and that of the planet.
The government’s new exercise campaign encourages us to get 30 minutes of physical activity a day. But while ads can get us to change our attitudes, they’re unlikely to change our behaviour.
The proposal is very different to schemes in the US where BMI report cards are sent to parents. Instead, the data would feed into obesity research and prevention programs.
Although we can’t change our age or genetic profile, there are fortunately several lifestyle changes we can make that will reduce our dementia risk.
Monday – start diet. Tuesday – break diet! Wednesday – plan to start again next Monday. Sound familiar?
Top contributors
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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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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Innovation - School of Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
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Chief Research Scientist, Food Systems and the Environment, CSIRO
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Professor of Health Promotion; Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie University
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Senior Researcher, University of Newcastle
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Newcastle
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Newcastle
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University
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NHMRC Early Career Fellow, Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor, Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Concordia University
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Professor and Registered Psychologist, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Global Food and Agriculture Policy and Ethics, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
