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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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SOCIETY

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)

SOCIETY

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

SOCIETY

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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SOCIETY

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)

ENVIRONMENT

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

ENVIRONMENT

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)

SOCIETY

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)

SOCIETY

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?

SOCIETY

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)

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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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SOCIETY

"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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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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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WORLD

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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