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Students gain up to 4kg in their first year at university and all the junk food on campus doesn’t help. Universities have a responsibility to make healthier foods available to students.
Robust new study finds weight gain may be due to more than just the calories.
Women with polycystic ovary syndrome say they find it hard to lose weight. Here’s what they can do to improve their symptoms and long-term health.
We have a tendency to eat more when we eat with others, but weight gain isn’t inevitable these holidays.
If you’re not a fan of plum pudding or pork with crackling, why not swap them for something healthier, like prawns and fresh fruit salad?
Many foods that seem healthy contain various hidden fats, sugars and salts. If you’re trying to lose weight, it pays to know where they’re hiding.
Spoiler alert: kilojoules affect weight gain more than your genes or gut bugs.
Research shows that young adults who don’t exercise can expect an average eight kilograms of extra fat on their body by 28 years of age.
A recent study was reported to have found that eating pasta wouldn’t make you put on weight, This is actually true, so long as you’re following a low GI diet.
Nearly all the weight we lose is exhaled.
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.
Most people assume the only reason to eat healthy foods is to stay slim. But being slim doesn’t mean you’re healthy, and doesn’t mean it’s OK to eat junk.
Bombarded with unhealthy offerings by the food industry, we blame and shame ourselves for gaining weight. But is it really our fault, or are we being “entrapped?”
The price of weight loss is lifelong vigilance
A recent study found Australian soft drinks had higher concentrations of glucose than US soft drinks, which had more fructose. Does this mean Australian drinks are worse for health than US drinks?
No wonder we’re addicted to junk food. Neuroscience shows food packaging affects our enjoyment of these foods, and plays on the same brain processes as hard drug addiction.
The make-up of your gut bacteria will determine whether or not you put on weight.
Many of us don’t treat alcohol with the respect the drug demands.
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?
Top contributors
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Executive Manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition; Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Adjunct Professor, Macquarie University
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Accredited Practising Dietitian; Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, Flinders University
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Adjunct lecturer and nutritionist, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Head of Division of Sport, Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Research Associate, Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour, Loughborough University
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Charles Perkins Centre Research Program Leader, University of Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
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Senior Research Fellow, NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Western Sydney University
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Senior Epidemiologist, BakerIDI, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University
