Overweight & Obesity
Just because you're thin, it doesn't mean you're healthy
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 63% of Australian adults are overweight or obese.
Sep 27, 2018
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News tagged with body fat levels
Overweight & Obesity
Strength-based exercises could help child obesity fight, study finds
Encouraging young people to do strength-based exercises—such as squats, push ups and lunges—could play a key role in tackling child obesity, research suggests.
Sep 19, 2018
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Health
It's eating fat that makes you fat, new mouse study suggests
Worldwide obesity has tripled since 1975, with 1.9 billion adults considered overweight. The condition now kills more people across the globe than underweight and malnutrition.
Sep 5, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Men and women are different: Why medical oncology needs to restate the obvious
Gender-based approaches to studying and treating disease have remained largely unexplored in medical oncology, despite the field's growing interest in precision medicine and accumulating evidence that sex is a major factor ...
Aug 28, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
High body fat levels associated with increased breast cancer risk in women with normal BMI
Among postmenopausal women with normal body mass index (BMI), those with higher body fat levels had an increased risk for invasive breast cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research ...
Jan 26, 2018
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Overweight & Obesity
The body's own bathroom scales—a new understanding of obesity
Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have found evidence for the existence of an internal body weight sensing system. This system operates like bathroom scales, registering body weight and ...
Dec 27, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New computer model predicts your health from the shape of your face, and so does your brain
An international study, led by researchers at Macquarie University, has developed a new computer model that can predict the status of certain health characteristics just by analysing a person's face, and reports that our ...
Dec 5, 2017
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Diabetes
Getting fat to 'talk' again could lower blood glucose and weight
Diabetes is a tough disease to manage. Oral medications, insulin shots, close monitoring of blood sugar, dietary changes and exercise can all factor into a person's treatment regimen. Now researchers are exploring a novel, ...
Aug 22, 2017
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Diabetes
Short, high-intensity exercise sessions improve insulin production in type 2 diabetes
A new study finds that short, functional-movement and resistance training workouts, called functional high-intensity training (F-HIT), may improve beta-cell function in adults with type 2 diabetes. Beta cells in the pancreas ...
Jun 2, 2017
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Health
High protein intake in early childhood is associated with higher body fat mass but not higher lean mass
New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Porto, Portugal (17-20) May shows that a high intake of protein in early childhood, particularly from animal food sources, is associated with a higher ...
May 20, 2017
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