obesity | Australian Doctor Group

GPs tend to underestimate children's excess weight

29th April 2019

Parents often underestimate how fat their children are — but so do family doctors. A new study found that more than half of…

11th April 2019

The leading paediatrician whose clinical trial for the treatment of teenage obesity has been branded a “gruelling and…

27th March 2019

There are now almost one million more patients with obesity in Australia today than three years ago, according to a report. …

26th March 2019

Concern over obesity in children has somewhat overshadowed the problem at the other end of the life span — weight problems…

5th June 2019

Promoted This content has been produced by Gilead Around 200,000 Australians are still living with chronic…

21st March 2019

Patients lose more weight when they feel GPs care about them and understand how hard it is to lose weight, a US study of…

7th March 2019

The stereotype of a young, wealthy female with an eating disorder is out of date and needs urgent revision, says a leading…

26th February 2019

Australia’s five-star food nutritional labelling program needs an urgent revamp to ensure fruit and vegetables are clearly…