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Are We Eating Ourselves and the Planet to Death?
(Radio Adelaide, 2011)
Adelaide Festival of Ideas session, Old Methodist Meeting Hall, 10:00am, Saturday 8th October, 2011. There are numerous areas where humans have achieved a peak of success, a ‘sweet spot’. But now that very success is ...
Surgical site infection in overweight and obese Total Knee Arthroplasty patients
(Elsevier, 2018-02-21)
Purpose
This aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of surgical site infection (SSI) in patients undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA), to improve our understanding of the associations between infection rate and ...
Fat mass, but not fat-free mass, predicts increased foot pain with obesity, independent of bariatric surgery
(Elsevier, 2018-06-25)
Background
Foot pain is a common manifestation of obesity.
Objective
To determine if bariatric surgery is associated with a reduction in foot pain and if body mass index (BMI) or body composition predict a change ...
A 3-year follow-up study of inpatients with lower limb ulcers: evidence of an obesity paradox?
(Dove Press, 2012-08-09)
Objectives: To determine whether body composition is related to long-term outcomes amongst vascular inpatients with lower limb ulcers.
Design: Prospective study with 3 years follow-up.
Materials and methods: Body mass index ...
Recruiting and engaging new mothers in nutrition research studies: lessons from the Australian NOURISH randomised controlled trial
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2012-10-29)
Despite important implications for the budgets, statistical power and generalisability of research findings, detailed reports of recruitment and retention in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are rare. The NOURISH RCT ...
A narrative account of implementation lessons learnt from the dissemination of an up-scaled state-wide child obesity management program in Australia: PEACH™ (Parenting, Eating and Activity for Child Health) Queensland
(BioMed Central, 2018-03-13)
Background: PEACH QLD translated the PEACH Program, designed to manage overweight/obesity in primary school-aged children, from efficacious RCT and small scale community trial to a larger state-wide program. This paper ...
Minimal change in children’s lifestyle behaviours and adiposity following a home-based obesity intervention: results from a pilot study
(BioMed Central, 2016)
Background/Methods: Families of overweight and obese children require support to make sustainable lifestyle
changes to improve their child’s diet and activity behaviours and in turn weight status. The aim of this ...
Connecting the dots between breast cancer, obesity and alcohol consumption in middle-aged women: ecological and case control studies
(BioMed Central, 2018-04-06)
Abstract
Background
Breast cancer (BC) incidence in Australian women aged 45 to 64 years (‘middle-aged’) has tripled in the past 50 years, along with increasing alcohol ...
The NOURISH randomised control trial: positive feeding practices and food preferences in early childhood - a primary prevention program for childhood obesity
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2009)
Primary prevention of childhood overweight is an international priority. In Australia 20-25% of 2-8 year olds are already overweight. These children are at substantially increased the risk of becoming overweight adults, ...
Online platform for healthy weight loss in adults with overweight and obesity - the “POEmaS” project: a randomized controlled trial
(BioMed Central, 2018-08-01)
Background
Obesity is a major health problem in Brazil affecting 19% of Brazilian adults with a rising incidence over the last 10 years. Moreover, low fruit/vegetables consumption and high sweetened beverage ...