Also known as the Cave Man Diet or the Stone Age Diet, the Palaeo Diet is based on the notion that we should eat as our ancestors did. Scientific fact or fiction? See what UNSW's evolutionary biologist Darren Curnoe has to say in this latest episode of How Did We Get Here?
Even a short-term diet of junk food can have a detrimental effect on cognitive ability with impaired memory and brain inflammation after just a week, UNSW reseach finds.
Almost two-thirds of adults and one fifth of children aged five to nine years are either overweight or obese, with a higher prevalence among people from lower socioeconomic groups, write Professors Nick Zwar and Mark Harris.
No one can claim to be unaware of the risks of obesity. But research shows the link between obesity and ill-health is not as simple as it’s often made out to be, writes Lesley Campbell.
