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| UpdatedA tax on sugar could cut soft drink consumption by 15 per cent and raise $500 million for the budget, new economic modelling shows.
Topics: sugar, obesity, health, tax, government-and-politics, doctors-and-medical-professionals, australia
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A new study warns 50 years of progress in the fight against heart-related deaths is now in jeopardy, with growing rates of obesity and type-2 diabetes leading to a resurgence in the number of deaths attributed to heart disease.
Topics: heart-disease, government-and-politics, diseases-and-disorders, health, diabetes, obesity, australia
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Queenslanders are living longer and taking better care of their health but being admitted to hospitals at unsustainable levels, a new report suggests, while the state can thank Tasmania for overtaking it on obesity rates.
Topics: health, obesity, health-insurance, adolescent-health, smoking, qld, tas
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| UpdatedA coalition of Australia's most influential doctors' groups come together to push for a tax on sugar sweetened drink and changes to the way obesity is defined.
Topics: obesity, health-policy, health, diet-and-nutrition, food-and-beverage, industry, business-economics-and-finance, tax, government-and-politics, australia
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Topics: food-and-beverage, food-and-cooking, obesity, kalgoorlie-6430
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| UpdatedWith childhood obesity rates soaring, chefs and dietitians say a re-think of children's menus by restauranteurs could be a helpful step.
Topics: food-and-cooking, obesity, community-and-society, children, health, child-health-and-behaviour, kalgoorlie-6430
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Topics: food-and-cooking, food-and-beverage, obesity, kalgoorlie-6430
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Topics: food-and-beverage, food-and-cooking, obesity, kalgoorlie-6430
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| UpdatedAs countries marked World Obesity Day this week, health experts are calling for action to tackle the rise of the health issue.
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Governments should use tax policy to increase the price of sugary drinks like sodas, sport drinks and even 100 per cent fruit juices as a way to fight obesity, diabetes and tooth decay, the World Health Organisation says.
Topics: tax, health, diet-and-nutrition, health-policy, obesity, united-states
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| UpdatedNew South Wales Health flatly rejects a report's recommendation to use NAPLAN, the nation's literacy and numeracy testing system, to compare childhood obesity among NSW schools.
Topics: health, obesity, education, state-parliament, nsw
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| UpdatedPeople who carry a particular genetic mutation linked to obesity are more likely to crave high-fat food but bypass sugary foods, a new study indicates.
Topics: science-and-technology, obesity, diet-and-nutrition
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| UpdatedNew modelling predicts 35 per cent of adults will be obese by 2025, with younger people now gaining weight at higher rates than ever before.
Topics: obesity, health, diet-and-nutrition, australia
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If 1.1 million children from 50 countries all ran in a race together, Tanzania would celebrate first place, while Australia would rank 35th. Who else is running faster than the Aussies?
Topics: exercise-and-fitness, children, obesity, australia
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People who carry a variant in the so-called "obesity gene", FTO, react just as well to diet and exercise as those without it, according to new research.
Topics: obesity, diet-and-nutrition, medical-research, health, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedAn ongoing national survey of children shows kids are spending more time glued to their devices as they get older, with those aged 12 to 13 staring at screens for at least three hours a day.
Topics: children, tv-technology, information-technology, adolescent-health, obesity, melbourne-3000, australia
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| UpdatedThe New South Wales Health Minister admits the Government will struggle to meet its target of reducing child obesity rates by 5 per cent over the next decade.
Topics: obesity, child-health-and-behaviour, states-and-territories, diet-and-nutrition, exercise-and-fitness, nsw
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Sir Michael Marmot is a global authority on public health who has spent his career investigating how social factors affect the health of the world's population.
Topics: health, diet-and-nutrition, doctors-and-medical-professionals, environmental-health, epidemiology, epidemiology---epidemics-and-pandemics, health-policy, mental-health, obesity, smoking, stress, lifestyle-and-leisure, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-other-peoples, poverty, work, australia, japan, united-kingdom, united-states
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Australians are living longer than ever but with higher rates of chronic disease, the latest national report card shows.
Topics: health, health-policy, diet-and-nutrition, obesity, arthritis, asthma, lung-cancer, heart-disease, diseases-and-disorders, australia
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| UpdatedAbout 50 per cent of Australians are living with a chronic disease and 63 per cent of adults are now considered overweight or obese, according to a new a report that also finds 85 per cent of Aussies believe they are healthy.
Topics: health, health-policy, diet-and-nutrition, obesity, arthritis, asthma, lung-cancer, heart-disease, diseases-and-disorders, australia
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The financial burden of so-called lifestyle illnesses in working people aged 45 and over is costing federal and state governments hundreds of millions of dollars annually, reveals the first major study of its kind.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, health-policy, health, diabetes, stroke, diseases-and-disorders, heart-disease, obesity, work, australia
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| UpdatedA Samoan-New Zealand man living in Sydney has halved his weight and he wants to share his success with other Pacific Islanders.
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| UpdatedMainstream yoga classes filled with lithe, athletic-looking Anglo women are leaving people with bigger frames feeling intimidated and excluded.
Topics: women, emotions, exercise-and-fitness, obesity, womens-health, offbeat
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An examination of 350 food products with the words "nature" or "natural" on the label by the Heart Foundation and Cancer Council in WA finds half are essentially junk food.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, obesity, food-and-beverage, food-and-cooking, perth-6000