Health: Obesity
CULTURE
Life Juices: Fasting at a ‘Fat Farm’
Helen Garner
At 5 pm on Boxing Day we sweep up the drive of the establishment my sister refers to as “the fat farm”. Its modest buildings are set in an...
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Fat of the Land
Alyssa McDonald
“The army obviously thinks I have a problem that needs to be addressed immediately,” wrote an affronted and sardonic Sergeant Kris Amiet in...
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Law of the locust. Steve Simpson (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2The locusts are coming! Locust plagues, the most infamous of insect scourges, are threatening large parts of Australia this...
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Law of the locust. Steve Simpson
Part 1 | Part 2 The locusts are coming! Locust plagues, the most infamous of insect scourges, are threatening large parts of Australia this...
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Bread and Butter
Gay Bilson
For dessert we ate hot puff pastry with a filling of grated apple cooked with butter, eggs and lemon. It pleased the guests, although one...
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Per Pinstrup-Andersen: Where is the global food system headed? (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 Widespread hunger and malnutrition, rapidly increasing obesity and related chronic diseases and the recent food crisis call...
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Where is the global food system headed?: Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Part 1 | Part 2Widespread hunger and malnutrition, rapidly increasing obesity and related chronic diseases and the recent food crisis call...
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Obesity: Is the food industry more the problem or the solution? (p3)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Food companies have contributed to the development of a food system that now provides adequate and safe food to...
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Obesity: Is the food industry more the problem or the solution? (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Food companies have contributed to the development of a food system that now provides adequate and safe food to...
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Obesity: Is the food industry more problem or solution?
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Food companies have contributed to the development of a food system that now provides adequate and safe food to...
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Health and sustainability: pandemics, rising costs and other challenges (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2Pandemics like swine flu and SARS capture the world's attention. But bigger public health issues like obesity in the...
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Health: Pandemics, rising costs and other challenges
Part 1 | Part 2Pandemics like swine flu and SARS capture the world's attention. But bigger public health issues like obesity in the...
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"Bodies" by Susie Orbach
Celina Riberio
Politicians predict obesity epidemics bankrupting governments and mutating generations of people, parents Photoshop pictures of their...
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Ticked Off
Ashley Hay
The unlikely combination of a small seaside village in Crete and an Adelaide-born Kylie Minogue look-alike would not have suggested, to the...
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Beattie’s Babylon
John Birmingham
Just up from the corner of Vulture and Boundary streets, where the short commercial strip of indie cafés and bars gives way to a remnant...
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