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Belly fat is the most dangerous, but losing it from anywhere helps

  • Written by: Evelyn Parr, Research Fellow in Exercise Metabolism and Nutrition, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University
Belly fat is the most dangerous, but losing it from anywhere helpsWe can't target certain areas for weight loss, but losing it from anywhere is good. from www.shutterstock.com

Excess storage of fat is linked to many different chronic diseases. But some areas of fat storage on the body are worse than others.

In general, women have greater absolute body fat percentages than men. Typically, women carry more fat...

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Training won't end discrimination, we have to hold people responsible

  • Written by: Lucy Taksa, Professor and Associate Dean, Macquarie University
Training won't end discrimination, we have to hold people responsible'Unconscious bias' might be a cop out.Shutterstock

Efforts to address discrimination and lack of diversity in the workplace often focus on unconscious bias and unconscious bias training.

While this sounds fine, it can be problematic in offering the perpetrators an out.

Unconscious bias is bias we are unaware of. It is said to be outside of our...

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Spring is coming, and there's little drought relief in sight

  • Written by: Jonathan Pollock, Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

So far, 2018 has been very warm and exceptionally dry over large parts of mainland Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology’s climate outlook for spring, released today, shows that significant widespread relief is unlikely.

The chance of a spring El Niño, along with other climate drivers, is likely to mean below-average rainfall for large...

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journalist David Neiwert on the rise of the alt-right in Trump's America

  • Written by: Kumuda Simpson, Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University

The rise of the radical right-wing movement in the US has become closely linked to Donald Trump’s presidency and the mainstreaming of ideas about race that were not so long ago found only on the furthest fringes of society.

David Neiwert’s new book, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, charts the key political...

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