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Two new Cochrane reviews reveal that some interventions to tackle overweight and obesity in children do work, but only in the short term.
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.
It’s time we considered the long-term benefits of community weight loss programmes to both individuals and society.
‘Healthy child’ vouchers and increased taxation could help tackle the childhood obesity problem.
Hair samples reveal how stress and obesity are linked.
If you’ve ever tried to cut back on sugar, you may have realised how incredibly difficult it is. This leads to the question: can you be addicted to sugar?
Scientifically you can be overweight and healthy - and yet there is still an obesity stigma.
Weight loss often leads to declines in our resting metabolic rate – how many calories we burn at rest – which makes it hard to keep the weight off. So why does weight loss make resting metabolism go down?
Horrors of job discrimination.
Just don’t say you can’t do anything about it.
Reassuring your child you love and support them unconditionally is crucial for a healthy relationship.
Recent reports claiming we need to do five times more exercise than we previously thought are incorrect. Current physical activity guidelines are enough to achieve health benefits.
Scientists thought they were closing in on one great new treatment but may have found another instead.
An individual’s weight is a complex and sensitive issue, which may be related to many factors that are not only medical but social, environmental and emotional.
A longitudinal study featuring nearly 74,000 US women has found that the longer a woman has been overweight or obese during her adult life, the higher her risk of developing cancer.
Many people believe eating healthily is expensive – and more costly than buying junk food. But our new research shows this isn’t the case.
It’s not easy to make good food choices when there’s a takeaway on every corner.
Canada is the latest country to see a decline in rates of overweight and obesity. Does that mean anti-obesity strategies are starting to work?
The government’s focus on treating chronic disease neglects the importance of obesity and the benefits of preventive health measures tailored to gender and socioeconomic circumstances.
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, 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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Charles Perkins Centre Research Program Leader, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Essex
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Research fellow, Monash University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Health Promotion; Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute, Dalhousie 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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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia
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Research Fellow in Exercise Metabolism and Nutrition, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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Senior Researcher, Diet and Obesity, University of Oxford
