Type 2 diabetes: Understanding Australia's biggest health challenge

"Imagine the fat in your body is like the food that you store in your pantry."

This is how Merlin Thomas, a physician-scientist from Monash University, begins his talk when asked to explain how type 2 diabetes works.

"Each week, you bring home your shopping and put it in the pantry. This way you've got food ready for when you need it during the week.

"Now, imagine a week that you get invited out a lot — so you eat out most nights. By the end of

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6 Fit Moms' Inspiring Transformation Stories

Following the birth of daughter Mia, trainer and Good American ambassador Emily Skye has kept her followers up-to-date on how the fitness aspect of her life has changed — and how she’s working hard on regaining her

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Should you pump or breastfeed?

Human breast milk is biologically designed to meet a baby's nutritional needs, and many doctors recommend breast milk rather than feeding with formula.

Still, people should choose the feeding strategy or combination of strategies that work best for them and the infant, while taking account of the

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Differences between wild and farmed salmon

There is an important discussion over the safety of farmed salmon compared to wild salmon. Wild and farmed salmon differ in their environmental impacts and nutritional

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Findings From National Geographic's 'Science of Sleep' Issue

The National Geographic cover story is a deep look into sleep and its effect on our well-being.

The magazine's editors liken sleep to a place we go, rather than a state of being.
"Sleep is an undiscovered country that each one of us travels to every night, but we really don't understand it very well," said senior editor Robert Kunzig in an interview with

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