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Feelings about fat key to reducing it

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:45:54 +0000

The New Zealand government has just launched a campaign to tackle what is now a childhood obesity epidemic. The Before School Check (B4SC) programme will, by December 2017, refer on ...
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Pope, pupils and positivity tackle climate change

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 03:58:23 +0000

Earlier this month, somewhere in the Vatican, Pope Francis was handed a DVD of Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 2015 finalist, Thin Ice. The work is a Victoria University of ...
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Diagnosis hits harder than we think

admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:45:21 +0000

Diagnosis is important in identifying and curing disease, but we cannot ignore that it also has a very strong social impact, says Doctor Annemarie Jutel, an associate professor at Victoria ...
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Therapy helps beat diabetes

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:34:39 +0000

Clinical psychologist Steve Malcolm talks to Sally Webster about his recent involvement in a diabetic trial and how value and belief work is vital in beating the now rampant disease. ...
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Social isolation roots of female mental illness?

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 03:21:57 +0000

If you’re female and have a good social life there’s less chance of you committing suicide – this was at the core of a recently published study, courtesy the Journal ...
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Industrial Organisational psychology reduces poverty

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:56:18 +0000

Image ‘Tanzanian Lunch’ thanks to Michigan State University

When Massey University Professor Stuart Carr received a Fellowship to the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (SIOP) this June, he wasn’t ...
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Emotion via mid-air feed?

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 07:43:48 +0000

As Doctor Marianna Obrist dons her lab coat each morning at Sussex University, a view of the gently rolling hills of England’s South Downs offering a calm distraction, SALLY WEBSTER ...
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