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20/10/05 Dr Andrew BinnsGPs are putting more and more effort into treating obesity and its medical complications. The unofficial M&M&M syndrome, wher more... |
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20/10/05 Dr Andrew Binns with SCU student exercise physiologist Rhiannon Holden and her ‘student’, Judith Light, who were presented wi more... |
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20/10/05 Jillian AdamsBoys from Lismore South Public School learn how to make vegetable pikelets during a Tooty Fruity Vegie cookery lesson.
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16/06/05 Dr Andrew BinnsThe metabolic syndrome sometimes called syndrome X or the insulin resistance syndrome has had a number of definitions over th more... |
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20/08/04 Jillian AdamsResearchers suggest that the more television children watch, the less healthy they probably are. It is very clear, for exampl more... |
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30/06/04 Dr Andrew BinnsChildhood obesity has finally been recognised as a serious epidemic as is evidenced by the amount of publicity it now receive more... |
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20/02/04 Dr Andrew BinnsGPs know better than anyone the serious health consequences of obesity. Every day, we deal in some way with the complications more... |
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18/12/03 Dr Andrew BinnsPrevious GPSpeak articles have discussed the complications of obesity causing metabolic and mechanical problems. Often the me more... |
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18/12/03 Dr Andrew BinnsPrevious GPSpeak articles have discussed the complications of obesity causing metabolic and mechanical problems. Often the me more... |
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18/12/03 Dr Andrew BinnsPrevious GPSpeak articles have discussed the complications of obesity causing metabolic and mechanical problems. Often the me more... |
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18/12/03 Dr Andrew BinnsPrevious GPSpeak articles have discussed the complications of obesity causing metabolic and mechanical problems. Often the me more... |
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17/10/03 Dr Andrew BinnsIntroduction
Surgery for morbid obesity has been around for 50 years starting with jejunoileal bypass (a malabsorptive proc more... |
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20/08/03 Dr Andrew BinnsAn important complication of being overweight or obese is the increased chance of having the metabolic syndrome (MS) or syndr more... |
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20/06/03 Dr Andrew BinnsEncouraging patients to exercise regularly is now truly on the GP agenda with plenty of evidence to back up the rationale for more... |
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17/12/02 Dr Andrew BinnsAll our patients deserve a little TLC or ‘tender loving care’ but an increasing number are also badly in need of another TLC, more... |
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16/10/02 Dr Rob TriggerRob Trigger practises in Byron Bay and has a special interest in youth health issues. more... |
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16/10/02 Dr Andrew BinnsQuite frankly just about anybody can lose weight by some means or other, but keeping it off long term is another matter. Beca more... |
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20/06/02 Dr Andrew BinnsIt is 3 to 4 million years since Homo sapiens gradually evolved to become an upright biped rather than a quadrupedal ape-like more... |
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19/04/02 Dr Andrew BinnsIt comes as no surprise to GPs at the coalface of modern healthcare to be told that the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is ove more... |
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20/02/02 James ErlichmanHow active do we need to be to manage and prevent weight gain? Here International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) senior policy off more... |
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20/12/01 Dr Andrew BinnsIt was in 1980 that Dr James Fries, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine published the now well kn more... |
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20/10/01 Dr Andrew BinnsIt comes as a surprise to many that we don't as a population actually eat more calories than our parents or grandparents and more... |
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20/10/01 Dr Andrew BinnsYou will not have heard of the M&M syndrome but it is a concept coined in this GPSpeak article to focus on a significant prob more... |
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20/09/01 Everybody knows that taking the dog for a walk is good for both yours and the dog’s health. But in more...
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20/09/01 Goonellabah GP Jim Mayze steps out on a local beach with his Nordic walking poles, a new walking more... more... |
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20/08/01 GP Jim Mayze steps out on the beach with his Nordic walking poles, a new walking accessory designed by the Finnish. He says t more... |
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20/08/01 Everybody knows that taking the dog for a walk is good for both yours and the dog’s health. But in this world of evidence-bas more... |
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20/06/01 Traditional training in clinical assessment addresses the patient history (including past, family and social history), examin more... |
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20/04/01 In a letter to the editor, Dr Brendan O’Sullivan has espoused the benefits of the low carbohydrate diet at the expense of a l more... |
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20/04/01 Editor
I was concerned that Dr Andrew Binns’s dismissal of the low carbohydrate ( The fashionable zone diet (February 2001) more... |
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20/02/01 When it comes to diets our patients will often appear to know more than we do. Sometimes we may be asked questions about the more... |
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20/12/00 With Christmas looming it is that season where energy consumption tends to exceed energy expenditure with the inevitable weig more... |
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20/10/00 Australia's hosting of the 2000 Olympics can only be described as a success on most parameters. It even had the effect of li more... |
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20/08/00 The evidence is overwhelming that adverse lifestyle factors are the cause of type 2 diabetes, which is becoming an increasing more... |
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20/06/00 When one considers the rising prevalence of overweight and obese adults (now 56% of the Australian population) and the co-mor more... |
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20/04/00 Mode of action
In May Australia will join many other developed countries in being able to offer people on prescription from more... |
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20/02/00 With 63% of Australian men and 47% of women now overweight or obese it is not surprising to see the weight loss industry boom more... |
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20/12/99 Patients tend not to present to their GP complaining of obesity per se but rather present with a myriad of symptoms and condi more... |
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How much weight loss is needed for health benefit?
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20/12/98 Until the 20th century, health was described in terms of vigour and stamina. Now the health of 80 per cent of the population more... |
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20/10/98 Obesity has become an epidemic on a global scale and poses one of the greatest threats to human health and well being as the more... |
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Using exercise to ward off anxiety and depression
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