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Gastric Banding
Gastric banding is a proven weightloss technique. Here we look at Gastric banding, how it works, benefits and risks of Gastric banding.
11 Jan 2008
Get Your Vitamin D in the Shade
People can get their daily requirement of vitamin D by sitting in the shade in the middle of the day…
11 Jan 2008
Obesity linked to pain
Obesity is the key public health issue for the 21st century. With around 1 in 5 adults now obese, Australia…
10 Jan 2008
Obesity and Pain
There now appears to be a strong link between obesity and pain. Studies show that obese people are much more likely to feel light to…
10 Jan 2008
The Top Health Stories of 2007
The editors of Harvard Medical School’s Harvard Health Letter have chosen the top health stories of 2007. Here are this…
13 Dec 2007
Nutrition for school children
Maintaining a balanced diet and regular exercise is important for everyone, especially school-aged children. They need to eat a variety of foods from each food…
13 Dec 2007
Obesity-Related Hormone is Higher in Children with Down Syndrome
Children with Down syndrome are more likely than their unaffected siblings to have higher levels of a hormone associated with…
07 Dec 2007
Kids ‘eating their way into middle-age disease’
Both New Zealand and Australia are seeing the same lifestyle-related diseases that are occurring throughout the world, together with increasing…
07 Dec 2007
Skin Cells Reprogrammed to Behave like Embryonic Stem Cells
When University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers succeeded in reprogramming skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells, they also began to…
03 Dec 2007
