Even if you exercise, sitting too much is linked to health risks from anxiety to diabetes. But this ‘invisible’ behaviour may pervade our lives even more under COVID-19 stay-at-home guidelines.
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Many teens and college students are continuing to hook up and attend gatherings. Peer pressure and the way younger minds interpret risk could be to blame.
The spread of coronavirus highlights the urgent need for housing for people who have nowhere to live.
The number of people dying due to climate-led changes in the environment are increasing and the poorest populations remain the hardest hit.
Children in the UK drink more energy drinks than in any other country in Europe — and many parents are unaware of the health risks.
If you’re 45 or older and have depression, new research suggests you may need to ask for a heart check when you next see your doctor.
More Australians over 50 are drinking and taking drugs than ever before. Here’s why that can be a problem.
We still don’t know what’s behind four out of every five birth defects. But that can change.
Eat less meat, save the world
Southern Africa is further south than the ends of the migration routes of ducks from Europe to East and West Africa.
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Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Behavioural Medicine Lab, School of Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education, University of Victoria
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Professor of Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University
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Professor, Kinesiology, Western University
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Research Fellow/ Epidemiologist, Australian National University
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Research officer, National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, Flinders University
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Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Florida International University
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Reader in Public Health Nutrition, Teesside University
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Team Head, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, QIMR Berghofer
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Developmental Biologist, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Senior lecturer in public health, Newcastle University
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Fulbright and Scientia PhD Scholar, UNSW
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Senior Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Epidemiology, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Aquatic Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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