weight management
A quarter can’t keep up health goals for a week: Weight Watchers
More than a quarter of Australians aren’t able to maintain their desired health goals even for a week, according to new research by Weight Watchers. The vast amount of food …
Small change could slash childhood obesity rates
Australia’s rates of childhood overweight and obesity could be turned around with changes equivalent to cutting one small chocolate bar and getting in 15 minutes of exercise, according to research …
Fitness better than fat loss in Syndrome X: researcher awarded
A finding that cardio-respiratory fitness is more important than fat loss for people suffering so-called ‘Syndrome X’ has landed a Queensland researcher a New Investigator Award. Joyce Ramos, a PhD …
New atypical antipsychotic for schizophrenia has ‘negligible’ weight effect
A new atypical antipsychotic medication that provides a sustained improvement of the symptoms of schizophrenia with negligible effect on patients’ metabolic parameters has been welcomed by Australian experts.
Men and women have different attitudes to overweight
New Roy Morgan research shows that 72% of Australian adult women say they would like to lose weight, while 56% are actually overweight—and this disconnect in body perception is widest …
Clinical tips: obesity explained
Tackling the growing burden of obesity and its associated diseases requires a multifactorial approach, writes Louis Roller. Obesity may be defined as an increase in body fatness resulting in impaired …
Hayley Lewis in Feel Great Challenge for DDS
Discount Drug Stores is set to launch the Feel Great Challenge in all 135 of its stores across Australia through August and September. Feel Great Challenge ambassador and Olympic and …
Smoking cessation weight gain quantified
Researchers at the University of Tasmania’s Menzies Institute for Medical Research have now been able to quantify the weight gain for smokers who quit, and the difference in weight gain …
Low calorie liquid diet helps Type-2 diabetes
New research has found that a low calorie liquid formula diet may help treat and prevent the onset of Type-2 diabetes. Losing weight and following a restricted diet is already …
Boys have different body image issues: researchers
Pre-adolescent boys and girls have differing body image issues, requiring gender specific programs, researchers told the APS College of Health Psychologists Conference in Sydney today. Dr Catherine Connaughton and Dr …
Exercise, not diet, key in reducing liver, heart disease
Overweight people should exercise rather than count kilos if they want to reduce their risk of liver disease, diabetes and cardiovascular problems according to new research from the University of …
Weight loss programs not backed – with exceptions
A new review of thousands of studies has found little evidence for the long-term benefit of commercial weight loss programs in the US – with a few exceptions. John Hopkins …