The popular new drug can bring dramatic weight loss for some patients. But for NZ, tackling a rising obesity epidemic is likely to require much broader change.
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Additional policy changes can help change key factors that drive obesity.
Diabetes affects about 12% of South Africa’s adult population.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently released new obesity management guidelines in order to help address the growing obesity crisis in children.
Research has been inconclusive on the degree to which drinking alcohol leads to the growth of harmful fat. But a new study suggests that beer and spirits are far bigger culprits than wine.
The problematical body-mass index method of measuring fatness means the number of people who are obese has been seriously underestimated.
If you want to remain lean, this study of mouse diets suggests your fat intake should make up just a fifth of your overall calorie intake.
To prevent the epidemic of liver cancer that looms on the horizon, we need to tackle hepatitis B, hepatitis C and obesity.
McDonald’s recently announced it will make its Happy Meal, which accounts of about 15 percent of all sales, healthier. Will it make kids healthier? That’s unclear, but it could lower parents’ guilt.
Most people assume the only reason to eat healthy foods is to stay slim. But being slim doesn’t mean you’re healthy, and doesn’t mean it’s OK to eat junk.
Despite the efforts of millions of Americans, obesity rates continue to climb. Why is it so hard to lose weight and to keep it off? It’s a lot more complicated than just pushing back the plate.
Weighing up the cost of improving people’s diets.
What is it like to be a fat person in a fat-shaming world? What are the political and ideological underpinnings of the ‘obesity crisis’? Fat studies is an emerging academic field that asks such questions.
Scientists find the missing link in epigenetics that could explain the mystery of inherited disease.
Behavioral research shows why a heavy-handed approach like the UK’s soda tax works better than the mere warning that San Francisco wants to put in advertisements.
In many rural areas, poor people are suffering from malnutrition, which takes the form of stunting and obesity. To change this, their food environments must change.
Food insecurity is not only a cause of bad food choices, it is a result of the economics and geographies of the food system.
For many obese people, the message that physical activity is more important than managing weight is not only unhelpful but also not true.
How people respond to changing economic incentives appears to explain a lot of the upward trend in weight.
Most of us know that obesity is a growing problem across the globe but would you call it a disease? While it may seem like a semantic debate, it is actually a serious issue with major implications.
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Development, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor of Population Health and Nutrition, Adelaide University
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Professor of Health Sciences, Adelaide University
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SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW
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ARC Future Fellow and Sydney Horizon Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor (Hon) at Monash University, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
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Department of Economics, Usery Workplace Research Group, Georgia State University
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Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Epidemiology and Public Health Department, University College London, UCL
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Professor of Endocrinology, University of Florida
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Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate Professor in Marketing, Director Centre for Organisations and Social Change, RMIT University
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Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau