Are fitness tests doing more harm than good?
Beep test or shuttle run – lots of us remember fitness time trials in school. But did you kn..
Almonds for weight loss?
Weight loss is never an easy nut to crack, but a handful of almonds could keep extra kilos at ..
Can sand help cure obesity?
Engineered particles of purified sand could be the next anti-obesity therapy, as new research ..
Commercial factors driving unhealthy diets
With more than two in three Australian adults and one in four children above a healthy weight,..
Links between metabolism and brain health
Every three seconds, someone in the world is diagnosed with dementia. And while there is no kn..
Excess weight linked to thyroid risk
The prevalence of obesity has doubled in Australia in the last two decades. With new research ..
CSIRO weighs in with diet quiz
CSIRO has developed a free, personalised weight loss tool to help Australians combat motivati..
Australia’s obesity epidemic
You would be forgiven not knowing Australia has an obesity problem, given the area we live in...
Linking poor diet to major health issues
Lachlan Cornell The Australia Bureau of Statistics, released a report in December last year..
Is health the main motivation for weight loss?
Lachlan Cornell Two-thirds of the adult Australian population are overweight or obe..