There's a tendency to believe that only obese people need to be educated about unhealthy and unnecessary foods.
Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
Parents in Australia recently made headlines expressing frustration with a health-care system that confuses weight with health.
They’ve been expressing their anger at two related, but separate, offenses…
Focussing on individual behaviour for preventing and managing obesity is simplistic and misleading.
Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
By Jessica L. Browne, Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes and Jane Speight, Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes
For anyone having doubts about overweight or obese people feeling blamed and shamed, the comments on a recent article about a positive image library should settle the matter. They clearly illustrate the…
The image library presents obese people in positive, natural poses. Here, Zoe prepares for work.
Isaac Brown
Discussions about obesity tend to focus on perceived health risks and the financial drain they pose to the health system. What’s less recognised is that the way we talk about obesity makes the social position…
If we're to confront obesity and with any real impact, we need to examine the way modern lifestyles have dramatically altered our food intake and energy expenditure.
Darwin Bell
By Paul Zimmet, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute
By 2025, it’s predicted that ⅔ of the Australian population aged over 25 will be overweight or obese if current trends continue. To paint the picture more crudely, it means that a person of normal weight…
The sooner we understand the risk factors that make children vulnerable to obesity, the more traction we can gain to reduce this number.
D. Sharon Pruitt
In Australia, girls in single-parent families are at a higher risk of being overweight or obese than children in dual-parent families. This fits with recent research findings from the United States showing…
The food industry has won this round but the traffic light labelling fight isn't over yet.
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The Federal Government has defied expert advice and rejected a traffic light food labelling system for packaged foods, saying there wasn’t enough evidence to show it would give consumers the information…
While we try to come to terms with the number of obese people, the chance to reverse the growing trend could be lost.
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This is a shorter version of an article that appears in the latest issue of Perspectives, an opinion-led journal published by Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
It’s predicted that two-thirds of…
Interventions that influence different aspects of the food and physical activity environments are needed to tackle obesity among children.
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This is a shorter version of an article that appears in the latest issue of Perspectives, an opinion-led journal published by Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
The prevalence of overweight and obesity…
The majority of obese people will have at least one other chronic disease.
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This is a shorter version of an article that appears in the latest issue of Perspectives, an opinion-led journal published by Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
Maladaption is the inability of a…
Prescription weight loss medicines are expensive and don't produce lasting results.
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Welcome to part nine of The science behind weight loss, a Conversation series in which we separate the myths about dieting from the realities of exercise and nutrition. Here, Lennert Veerman, Senior Research…
How much weight can be lost from reducing calorie intake is generally misunderstood.
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Welcome to part four of The science behind weight loss, a Conversation series in which we separate the myths about dieting from the realities of exercise and nutrition. Here, Deakin University Public Health…
Fad diets might give you short-term "results" but they're unlikely to keep the weight off.
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Welcome to The science behind weight loss, a new Conversation series where we separate the myths about dieting from the realities of exercise and nutrition. In our first instalment, renowned nutritionist…
An analysis of newspaper reporting about sweet drinks found coverage was largely positively oriented.
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Sugary drinks are very popular, almost entirely unnecessary, and contribute to a number of health problems.
Despite such health risks, these drinks are increasingly marketed as healthy with labels highlighting…
Australia needs a tax on unhealthy foods that covers more than just fat content.
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Australia should follow the lead of Denmark and consider taxing foods high in saturated fats to curb the nation’s growing obesity problem, Greens leader Bob Brown said at yesterday’s tax forum.
This week…
The most promising interventions to curb obesity's prevalence target the population as a whole rather than individuals.
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Non-communicable diseases – Lennert Veerman examines the reasons for the obesity epidemic and options for controlling it.
Obesity levels are on the rise the world over. This is a sign that something is…
