BMI categories don’t give us a full picture of a person’s health risk.
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Physical training before surgery — like breathing exercises or running — boosts the odds of a good outcome. Patients with surgeries postponed during COVID-19 can use the delay for ‘prehabilitation.’
Even if you exercise, sitting too much is linked to health risks from anxiety to diabetes. But this ‘invisible’ behaviour may pervade our lives even more under COVID-19 stay-at-home guidelines.
Many teens and college students are continuing to hook up and attend gatherings. Peer pressure and the way younger minds interpret risk could be to blame.
The spread of coronavirus highlights the urgent need for housing for people who have nowhere to live.
The number of people dying due to climate-led changes in the environment are increasing and the poorest populations remain the hardest hit.
Children in the UK drink more energy drinks than in any other country in Europe — and many parents are unaware of the health risks.
If you’re 45 or older and have depression, new research suggests you may need to ask for a heart check when you next see your doctor.
More Australians over 50 are drinking and taking drugs than ever before. Here’s why that can be a problem.
We still don’t know what’s behind four out of every five birth defects. But that can change.
Eat less meat, save the world
Southern Africa is further south than the ends of the migration routes of ducks from Europe to East and West Africa.
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Professor, Kinesiology, Western University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Behavioural Medicine Lab, School of Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education, University of Victoria
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Associate Professor, Psychosocial Difficulties, University of Oslo
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Team Head, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
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Research Fellow/ Epidemiologist, Australian National University
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Research Professor, James Cook University
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Developmental Biologist, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Research Fellow, University of York
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Research officer, National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, Flinders University
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Senior lecturer in public health, Newcastle University
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Reader in Public Health Nutrition, Teesside University
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Kinesiology, McMaster University
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Professor and Director of the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, Flinders University
