General News
2012-05-10 Food Magazine
220 000 cases of diabetes could be prevented by 2025
Australian researchers have examined three options for beating obesity and discovered they could prevent about 220 000 cases of type 2 diabetes nationwide by 2025.
2012-05-10 The Age - National
AMA lashes out at cut to incentives
Child immunisations could fall as a result of cuts in incentive payments to doctors, the Australian Medical Association has said in comments that have drawn the wrath of a patients' group.
2012-05-10 ABC News
Call for junk food tax to prevent diabetes
New research suggests that drastic measures such as a tax on fatty foods are needed to tackle obesity and help prevent 250,000 cases of Type 2 diabetes in Australia by 2025.
2012-05-09 The Age - World
Obesity tipped to grow in the US
A greater proportion of Americans will become obese if nothing is done, with the US obesity rate tipped to possibly rise to 42 per cent of the population from about a third by 2030.
2012-05-09 The Age - National
GPs and Labor at odds over immunisation
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The federal government's decision to scrap payments encouraging GPs to immunise children is a threat to public health "of the highest order", doctors say.
2012-05-09 Yahoo!7 News
Diabetes trial set to be scrapped
A multi-million dollar trial into finding the cure for diabetes might be scrapped because there aren’t enough participants.
The federally funded trial is trying to determine whether a nasal vaccine could prevent diabetes.
2012-05-09 Nine MSN - News & Current Affairs
Intervention needed for type 2 diabetes
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Australia could be reduced by programs targeting high-risk groups.
More than 2 million Australians, 11.4 per cent of the population, will have diabetes by 2025 if current trends continue, according to Melbourne's Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
2012-05-09 Australian Food News
Australian researchers develop new weight-loss strategies to tackle diabetes
New research from Australia suggests that using a targeted high-risk prevention strategy to tackle obesity could avert around 220,000 cases of type 2 diabetes in the country by 2025.
2012-05-02 The Sydney Morning Herald
'Old' China may benefit Australia
CHINA is getting old. Already there are 8 million people aged more than 80 - and by some estimates, there will be 100 million Chinese octogenarians by the middle of this, the Asian century.
2012-05-02 The Conversation
How much is general health affected by oral health?
Bad oral health can have a significant negative impact on people’s quality of life. It can also affect other diseases that they may be suffering. But whether oral ill-health causes general health problems depends on what disease you’re talking about.
2012-05-02 Adelaide Now
Diabetics go online for better treatment and healthier lifestyle
MORE than 3000 South Australians with diabetes are needed for the largest-ever program aimed at combating diabetes in Australia.
2012-05-01 Fremantle Dockers
Time to run for a reason
The 2012 HBF Run For A Reason is coming up and, as an official ambassador for Diabetes WA, Nat Fyfe has been encouraging Freo fans to take part in the event and make ’Freedom from Diabetes’ their reason to run.
2012-05-01 WA Today
Long sleep may suppress weight gain
A ''sleep diet'' may be the best way to slim for someone with an inherited tendency to put on weight, research suggests.
Sleeping more than nine hours a night appears to suppress genetic factors that lead to weight gain, a study has found.
2012-05-01 WellBeing
Sugar Tax
Tax has traditionally been used as a way to discourage consumption (or on occasion to wickedly extort the good gentlefolk of their hard-earned possessions for the benefit of the self-serving overlords).
2012-04-30 Medical Journal of Australia
Being correct about obesity
To the Editor: Van Der Weyden states that “obesity” has negative connotations and the capacity to stigmatise.1 “Intending to give minimal offence and shifting the focus from the person to the condition”, people substitute politically correct terms.
2012-04-05 Australian Ageing Agenda
End isolation, promote healthy ageing
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One of the major problems facing Australian society today is the increasing number of older people who are living alone and isolated from their communities, a consumer advocate has said.
2012-04-05 West Australian
Diagnosis the key to effective treatment
The signs and symptoms of female genital health problems.
Itching and burning
While thrush is most often thought of as the culprit in all cases of genital itch, this is not true.
2012-04-05 WA Today
Call for funds to prevent diabetes
A HOTLINE should be established to provide advice to people concerned about their risk of diabetes in a bid to stem the rising epidemic, a patients' group says.
2012-04-05 West Australian
Muscle helps reverse diabetes
The key to exercising your way free of type 2 diabetes is to become healthily muscle-bound by doing weight training, says exercise physiologist Rob Newton.
2012-04-05 West Australian
Weighty liability
Mark Braddon, 49, may be a picture of health today but five years ago, he was a different man - inside and out.
At 169kg, he was on track for an early grave thanks to too much food and not enough exercise.