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Clearing up the sugar debate
A new study into the health effects of sugar by the University of Otago aims to disentangle what has been a confused and controversial issue, its author says.
A new study into the health effects of sugar by the University of Otago aims to disentangle what has been a confused and controversial issue, its author says.
The rising level of obesity, alongside diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other related diseases, is predicted to slow down or reverse the decline in mortality seen in most Western countries.
Many festive folks will have one eye on the difference Christmas indulgence makes to their waistlines.
Recipes by TV chefs including Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson are "less healthy" than ready meals, researchers said.
The number of clinically overweight children aged under 10 being seen by a Tauranga dietitian has increased fourfold in two years.
Eating disorder clinics are increasingly seeing patients who developed their condition as a result of being overweight or obese, a leading Australian health expert says.
New Zealand's weight problem is gobbling up more than 4 per cent of what we spend on health care, according to a study out today.
Researchers studying a school-based programme credited with reducing the rates of obese and overweight 7-year-olds have now found a reduction in asthma symptoms.
Researchers unable to explain higher health risk for children in facilities.
Newborns and unborn babies in later pregnancy have been dying in South Auckland at a higher rate than the national average for most of the past decade.
We're becoming a nation of fatties. And while we only make up 0.08 per cent of the total world weight, we make up 0.22 of the world's excess weight due to obesity.
A study finds doctors could do more to help at-risk teens who are vomiting, taking diet pills and skipping meals.
Research has found children who don't have any brothers or sisters are about 50 per cent more likely to have weight problems.