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This event is open to the public and our expert speakers will discuss and take your questions on Empowering personal change for pregnancy and child health.
Professor Megan Warin, Research Leader, Robinson Research Institute / Director Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender, University of Adelaide.
Megan Warin is a social anthropologist and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and has over 2 decades of research experience in investigating how people attend to food and eating in everyday lives. Her research takes her into communities and homes where people often experience hardship and are trying to juggle many competing priorities in the context of family life. Poverty, under-employment, mental health and poor housing all impact on people’s capacity to eat, and to eat well. With colleagues, Megan has explored the ways in which women and mothers are positioned in many of the key debates around parenting and obesity, highlig
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Intermittent fasting looks like a simple fix for festive overeating: we just balance the extra food and booze by scheduling specific days of the week – or hours of the day – when we restrict kilojoules or avoid eating altogether. But are there pitfalls and which of the many versions of intermittent fasting might work best?
The first thing to know is that preventing weight gain over the party period is smart: keeping weight
off is easier than shifting it once it’s glued to your middle.
5:2, 16:8 - which fasting regime is best?
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“Some studies have found that when people put on weight over the Christmas period they don’t always shed all the weight they’ve gained, despite good intentions of losing it later. The weight that lingers can contribute to the gradual kilo creep that results in weight gain across the lifespan,” says Sydney dietitian Alex Parker from The Biting Truth.