Feature Article: Healthy Eating at Every Size
Health At Every Size (HAES) is a weight-neutral approach to health. HAES practitioners believe that, regardless of your size, it is more important to focus on healthy behaviours than weight loss. HAES is based on evidence that dieting for weight loss is ineffective...
Feature Article: Protect yourself against hearing loss
Around 3.6 million Australians suffer from hearing loss. While age-related factors are the most common cause, more than one-third of Australians with hearing loss have noise-related ear damage, which is preventable. It is therefore important to be aware of how to...
Children’s Health: Bedwetting in older children
Bedwetting occurs when a child doesn’t wake up during the night when they need to pass urine. While it is common for children six years and under to wet the bed, sometimes older children can wet the bed too. They may continue bedwetting from birth or start wetting the...
Feature Article: The facts on weight loss surgery
The number of Australian’s undergoing weight loss (bariatric) surgery is increasing each year. The number of surgeries performed more than doubled from 2005-06 to 2014-15. And according to the Monash University Bariatric Surgery Registry there were around 28000...