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A CNN documentary follows two people with Alzheimer’s who took part in a study to determine if lifestyle changes can reverse symptoms.
It turns out that, although such measurements are important, waist circumference and ratio to height are not the whole story when it comes to your risk of disease and death.
Weight loss can seem like an impossible, unachievable task. But you don’t need to lose a lot of weight to start noticing the health benefits.
Preconception health refers to the many lifestyle changes you can make to benefit a future pregnancy.
These highlights from The Conversation’s Quarter Life series can help you stick to your goals in 2024.
Weight regain might be common, but that doesn’t mean you can’t prevent it.
Lifestyle factors like physical activity, diet and sleep can lower the ‘biological age’ of your cells and tissues and reduce age-related physical decline.
The festive season provides great motivation to make lifestyle changes around eating habits.
Changing your eating, exercising, socialising and engagement with nature can help treat depression. Now mental health professionals have some guidelines to shape treatment around lifestyle therapies.
Fixing the climate crisis can be a source of pleasure and not just pain.
Semaglutide works by controlling appetite.
Healthcare providers and governments must recognise the need to invest in diabetes nurse education and training.
The magazine grew to be the largest circulation publication for black readers in South Africa, and expanded to include East and West African editions.
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.’
Two experts ask whether dads are making their health a priority. Evidence suggests not. Pressures to provide income often hold fathers back.
Beyond medication and psychological treatments, there are steps all of us can take to alleviate stress, improve our mood and take care of our mental health. Here are five to get you started.
Shakespeare wrote of the ‘seven ages of man’, and our appetite for food changes as we age too – with implications for our health.
Dropping old, bad habits is hard, but starting new, good ones may not be so difficult. Or so a recent study suggests. Read how a simple sign at an airport made a difference.
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Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Researcher in Public Health, San Diego State University
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Personal Chair in Nutrition, The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, San Diego
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Professor; NHMRC Clinical Research Fellow; NICM Health Research Institute Deputy Director, Western Sydney University
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PhD Candidate, Neuroscience, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Tufts University
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Senior research fellow, Deakin University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
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Research Associate, University of Cologne
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Senior Research Fellow & Sydney Horizon Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use and School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow in Psychology, Cardiff University
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Professor and Co-Director of the Racial Justice Institute, Georgetown University
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Senior Research Associate, Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour, Loughborough University
