Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Obesity Consortium

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Welcome

Recent publicity has made us all aware of the rise in the prevalence of obesity in Australia. The AusDiab study found that over 52% of women and 67% of men are either overweight or obese. The number of obese children and adolescents has doubled in the last 15 years. The UniMelb Obesity Consortium has been set up as a response to this serious health issue.

We are a large multifaceted group comprising of over 80 members from approximately 40 groups associated with the University of Melbourne. The groups have expertise that ranges from Public Health, Children and Adolescent Health Clinical Medicine with, obesity clinics that include integrated Medical and Surgical units, Clinical Research departments, Basic Science, Economics etc, who are all currently addressing the obesity problem from many different perspectives.

Our overall aim is to co-ordinate the efforts of the University of Melbourne and its affiliated institutions to tackle obesity using state of the art basic and clinical science and evidence-based individual therapy and public health measures.

Awards

Congratulations to our 2011-12 Grant Awardees

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Events

DOER Special Events

Multimedia

War on child flab

Dr Matt Sabin, has penned a question-and-answer guide for parents concerned about their child's weight, 'Is your child overweight?'. What you need to know and what you can do about it. It collates material he has gathered from a decade working with obese and clinically overweight children, where he has seen community senses of what is 'normal' weight become warped.

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NEW CSIRO and Baker IDI Diabetes Diet and Lifestyle Plan

CSIRO BookIn the first week of May a new book was launched that will be great for Diabetics as well as educators in helping people with their understanding and action planning for their diabetes/obesity/prediabetes. 
It was launched jointly with CSIRO (including our Dr Lance Macaulay from the Obesity Consortium) and the Baker IDI. The 'Diabetes Diet and Lifestyle Plan' is a clear and easy guide for all Australians to follow, covering every aspect of dealing with type 2 diabetes prevention and control. Further information can be found at: http://www.csiro.au/resources/Diabetes-Diet-and-Lifestyle-Plan.html.

NEW preventative health book available

Adolescent health bookWhy isn’t more attention paid to preventive health? A new book edited by Helen Sykes focuses on just this question. In contributing a chapter on adolescent health, Centre for Adolescent Health academics Professor Susan Sawyer and Professor George Patton join other leading Australian academics such as Professors Fiona Stanley and Sir Gustav Nossal whose contributions span topics such as global health, health policy and health systems, child and adolescent health, indigenous health, ageing and health, mental health and climate change and health. The second part of the book features writing by young people.

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