Don’t worry, 98% of health professionals surveyed didn’t know either. Ruben Meerman, UNSW and Andrew Brown, UNSW The world is obsessed with fad diets and weight loss, yet few of us know how a kilogram of fat actually vanishes off the scales. Even the 150 doctors, dietitians and personal trainers we surveyed shared this surprising […]
Monthly Archives: June 2019
Some people reward themselves for exercise with food, stymying weight-loss efforts. Liz is a typical 50-something woman, fit, 70 kg, 30% body fat. She goes to the gym every day, and runs for 35 minutes on the treadmill at 10km/h. But, as she tells me rather often, she can’t lose weight. So what’s going on […]
Nike’s London store recently introduced a plus-sized mannequin to display its active clothing range which goes up to a size 32. The mannequin triggered a cascade of responses ranging from outrage to celebration. One side argues that the mannequin normalises obesity and leads obese people to feel that they are healthy when in fact they […]
You don’t have to quit bread, but make sure it’s wholegrain. Shutterstock Yasmine Probst, University of Wollongong; Elizabeth Neale, University of Wollongong, and Vivienne Guan, University of Wollongong It’s difficult to lose weight. And it’s even harder to keep it off. Many people achieve short-term weight-loss only to return to their previous lifestyle choices – […]