DR MARY LING IN THE NEWS

For Women’s Health Week, I am joined by health reporter Jane Worthington and special guests Liesl Tesch MP Paralympian and Member for Gosford and Margaret Beardslee OAM World Age Duathlon Champion in a special podcast to discuss the importance of screening checks for the 2 most common cancers affecting women.

For the first time in history, there are now more people with obesity in the world than underweight people. The tidal wave of obesity shows no signs of slowing down – a 2016 global analysis in The Lancet found that worldwide, the number of obese people has risen from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014.