…and then they need to record when remission occurs.
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The price of weight loss is lifelong vigilance
Understanding how your brain responds to food could be the key to losing weight
Activity tracking devices are boosting people’s desire to make healthy lifestyle changes – and stick to them
Two new Cochrane reviews reveal that some interventions to tackle overweight and obesity in children do work, but only in the short term.
Of the 22,713 weight loss operations performed in 2014-15, about 90% were performed in private hospitals, highlighting the difficulty in accessing this type of surgery through the public system.
There can be benefits to fidgeting, such as boosting attention or helping you burn up to 800 extra calories a day. But it comes at a cost…
Fasting diets aim to make it easier to stick to a weight loss program, but they are not for everyone.
Celebrity fitness gurus tell us to turn up the heat in the gym to see immediate results. But the science of how we use energy in our bodies shows a long-term view is the best approach.
Whole body vibration therapy is undertaken by standing, sitting, lying or doing exercises on specifically designed equipment that oscillates at relatively high frequencies.
Many mindfulness studies on weight loss are flawed. Others only measure surrogate outcomes, such as snacking less.
Had to let the belt out a notch or two lately? Then it may be time to give your eating habits an overhaul. Good news - fast meals can be tasty, and healthy.
Short bursts of intense exercise are all the rage. But a new study finds that a more moderate approach can be just as good.
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?
As obesity has become a health concern globally, weight loss information has proliferated – with questionable effects on its prevalence.
Genes aren’t destiny.
Why that fitness plan you saw online probably won’t help you lose as much weight as it claims.
Losing weight is hard enough to do without myths interfering in the process. Information based on evidence, not legend, is important. Doctors aren’t enough. Friends, family, media need to be on board.
One would imagine the body would generally be supportive of weight loss. If so, why is persistent weight loss and weight maintenance so difficult?
Weight-loss supplement Garcinia Cambogia has had an exponential rise in sales since its marketing on the Doctor Oz show.
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Clinical Trials Director, Department of Endocrinology, RPA Hospital, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Associate, Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor of Nutrition, University of Surrey
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Honorary Associate Professor, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Accredited Practising Dietitian and Lecturer, Southern Cross University
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Newcastle
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Professor, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, University of Leicester
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Senior Visiting Fellow, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW
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Head of Division of Sport, Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Newcastle