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Do ketogenic diets help you lose weight?

  • Written by: Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Ketogenic diets involve eating mostly fats. 

Is a ketogenic diet effective for weight loss? The answer depends on whether it achieves a reduction in total kilojoule intake or not.

What is a ketogenic diet?

A classical ketogenic diet follows a strict ratio for total grams of fat to combined grams of carbohydrate and protein and...

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Mission over: the final countdown to Cassini's fatal plunge into Saturn

  • Written by: Ed Kruzins, Facilities Program Director Nasa Operations Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex , CSIRO
imageAn illustration of Cassini as it plunges into Saturn’s atmosphere.NASA/JPL-Caltech

When the Cassini space probe makes its final descent into Saturn later today, data from the final nine hours of the mission will be sent back to NASA’s tracking station in Canberra, Australia.

As the probe descends, it will capture images and data from...

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Friday essay: recognising the unsung heroes of Australia's AIDS crisis

  • Written by: Shirleene Robinson, Associate Professor and Vice Chancellor's Innovation Fellow, Macquarie University
imageA Victorian AIDS Council volunteer training weekend in Kyneton Victoria, 1987. Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives.

All your friends were getting sick. All your contacts, all your sexual friends and people that you drank with at the pub. You started visiting people in hospital and the wards had a lot of people in them and you knew them.

This is what...

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The year of living ineffectually: 2017 proves shaky for the centre-left

  • Written by: Rob Manwaring, Senior Lecturer, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University

For political junkies, 2017 has provided a bumper crop of elections, particularly across Europe. This year, we have already seen key elections in the Netherlands, France, and the UK. Before the year is out, elections will take place in Norway, New Zealand, Germany and Austria. If we add the 2016 US Presidential result to these – we might see...

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  1. After 30 years of the Montreal Protocol, the ozone layer is gradually healing
  2. People-friendly furniture in public places matters more than ever in today's city
  3. Science or snake oil: is manuka honey really a 'superfood' for treating colds, allergies and infections?
  4. Indonesia challenges Australia's anti-dumping measures at the WTO
  5. Grattan on Friday: King Coal is wearing big boots in the Turnbull government
  6. The Lionel Murphy papers shed more light on a controversial life
  7. Australians pay more for education than the OECD average – but is it worth it?
  8. We can use AFL to boost school attendance and improve mental health in Indigenous communities
  9. We're on our way to making whistleblower protections more than theoretical
  10. Rebel Wilson's $4.5 million win a sobering reminder that defaming a celebrity can be costly
  11. Where the accountability problems started at CBA
  12. Gay-identifying AI tells us more about stereotypes than the origins of sexuality
  13. While the world frets over North Korea, what to do about Iran also causes headaches
  14. My favourite album: Yothu Yindi's Tribal Voice
  15. With iPhone X, Apple is hoping to augment reality for the everyman
  16. Media reform deals will reduce diversity and amount to little more than window dressing
  17. University cuts – the dire implications for the creative arts
  18. The off-topic Conversation #136
  19. Predicting disaster: better hurricane forecasts buy vital time for residents
  20. Votes for corporations and extra votes for property owners: why local council elections are undemocratic
  21. Power naps and meals don't always help shift workers make it through the night
  22. Decoding the music masterpieces: Shostakovich's Babi Yar
  23. North Korea tests not just a bomb but the global nuclear monitoring system
  24. How skills and personality traits contribute to the gender pay gap
  25. Government set to win Senate support for media deregulation
  26. More coal doesn’t equal more peak power
  27. So you bought the new iPhone? Here are your rights if it breaks
  28. The secrets of Titan: Cassini searched for the building blocks of life on Saturn's largest moon
  29. My favourite album: The Beastie Boys' Ill Communication
  30. Explainer: how does the sea 'disappear' when a hurricane passes by?
  31. Health Check: is margarine actually better for me than butter?
  32. A bloody decade of the iPhone
  33. Income inequality ticks down as the rich see their incomes fall: ABS
  34. Talking about suicide and self-harm in schools can save lives
  35. Is evidence for or against drug-testing welfare recipients? It depends on the result we're after
  36. Marriage vote: how advocacy ads exploit our emotions in divisive debates
  37. How Antarctic ice melt can be a tipping point for the whole planet's climate
  38. Sydney's Cloud Arch critics and our mean-spirited approach to public art
  39. Curious Kids: Why it is that the things close to the train windows zoom by really fast, but things further away seem to go by much slower?
  40. Ancient volcanic eruptions disrupted Earth's thermostat, creating a 'Snowball' planet
  41. Google architecture and what do you see? And what's a building without people?
  42. Despite the leaks, Apple's new products will still excite its fans
  43. Anti-vilification legislation for marriage ballot to pass this week
  44. Treating AGL with public contempt seems hardly the way to get the best outcome
  45. Ipsos 53-47 to Labor, but Shorten's ratings slump; Qld Newspoll 53-47 to Labor
  46. Can a federal court case against pokies succeed where politics has failed?
  47. Politics podcast: Mark Butler on energy uncertainty
  48. How the sky can help make air conditioners at least 20% more efficient
  49. Religion is not the only reason Rohingyas are being forced out of Myanmar
  50. Protecting children from abuse in organisations needs leadership and cultural change

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