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One would imagine the body would generally be supportive of weight loss. If so, why is persistent weight loss and weight maintenance so difficult?
If you’re an average-sized adult eating and drinking enough to maintain a healthy body weight, you should consume no more than 12 teaspoons of sugar per day.
It’s time for Australia to follow the UK’s lead and increase the price of sugary drinks.
Many of us enter a new year reflecting on where we have been and our plans for the future. For some, this will mean acknowledging that a couple more kilos have crept on over the past year.
If you’re embarking on post-holiday weight loss, understanding your body’s physiological responses to the excess of the holiday season could give you the edge for a successful New Year’s resolution.
Does working out really cut the mustard in the battle against the bulge? The verdict’s in.
People overeat. And people don’t always make the healthiest food choices. That much is clear. But who is to blame for overeating and poor food choices?
The potential health benefits of energy-burning brown and beige fat might be not the effect on weight, but rather on blood sugar and cholesterol.
Between work Christmas parties, Christmas lunch or dinner, edible presents and New Year’s Eve, it can be an effort not to gain weight.
Thanks to our ancestors, we’re designed to hold on to fat.
While a single, smaller portion leads people to eat less, having multiple smaller portions on offer appears to lead some people - notably the diet-conscious - to eat more.
Time spent indoors during winter provides a good excuse to eat more, and generally indulge. But does the weather really influence what we eat, or is it merely a fig leaf for our inherent gluttony?
Most women (85%) and a small number of men have cellulite, usually on the thighs, buttocks and upper arms. It’s a normal pattern of fat for people of all shapes and sizes.
Weight and girth have become shorthand for health but these are blunt instruments that provide an unreliable and reductive snapshot of its complexities.
Want to drop a dress or pants size? Then losing five kilograms, or about 5% of your body weight will help that zipper start to close with ease. In case you need another reason, keeping a small amount of…
Over the past three decades, the Australasia region has outpaced other regions of the world with the largest absolute increase in adult obesity. Poor diet and high body mass index have overtaken tobacco…
If you’re an adult and live in Australia, you’re more likely to be overweight or obese than not: 63% and 37% respectively. This excess weight is associated with increased premature death and disease, and…
Women are often encouraged to “eat for two” during pregnancy. While this is right in terms of eating to meet both mum’s and baby’s needs, it doesn’t mean doubling her total food and energy intake. The…
Survivors of a childhood liver transplant remain nutritionally compromised in the years following surgery, a new study has…
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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
