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| UpdatedA 65 per cent hike in the price of ice-cream might not sound like a great idea, but what if it meant you could live longer? Melbourne researchers say a sugar tax, combined with subsidies for healthy foods, could increase Australians' life expectancy.
Topics: obesity, diet-and-nutrition, food-and-cooking, food-and-beverage, health, melbourne-3000
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It is a national epidemic that leaves its sufferers trapped inside their own bodies; isolated, depressed and misunderstood. Obesity affects almost a quarter of Australians, but help can be almost impossible to find.
Topics: obesity, health, government-and-politics, community-and-society, narellan-2567, australia
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| UpdatedObesity affects almost a quarter of Australians, but help can be almost impossible to find, health specialists say.
Topics: obesity, health, government-and-politics, community-and-society, narellan-2567
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| UpdatedA new study has found that lap band surgery has significant benefits for severely obese teenagers.
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| UpdatedSugar-free diets and concerns about fructose are leading more people to avoid fruit altogether — but they are missing out on a core food group, dietitians warn.
Topics: food-and-cooking, diet-and-nutrition, obesity, community-and-society, perth-6000
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Does a man lose weight faster by walking the Kokoda Track, playing rugby, or quitting sugar? Ben Pobjie grills author of The Great Aussie Bloke Slim-Down, Peter FitzSimons.
Topics: non-fiction, men, diet-and-nutrition, mens-health, obesity, offbeat, australia
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| UpdatedA surgeon who was told by the nation's medical watchdog to stop giving specific nutritional advice is one of several cases prompting a Senate committee to call for an inquiry into the agency.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, obesity, federal-government, tas
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Topics: food-processing, obesity, healthy-recipes, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA former Weight Watchers head says junk food should be taxed to boost the consumption of good food.
Topics: obesity, womens-health, vegetables, sydney-2000, darwin-0800, margaret-river-6285, launceston-7250, adelaide-5000, bundaberg-4670, orange-2800, werribee-3030, manly-2095
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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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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