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Keywords: Obesity

  • AUSTRALIA

    The skinny on 'fat' Australia

    • Tim Kroenert and Andrew Hamilton
    • 23 June 2008
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    A new report reveals Australia's battle with the bulge is reaching crisis point, suggesting our lives of comfort and consumption are catching up with us. The weight problem is a symptom of general problematic attitdues towards human dignity and wholeness.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    End of innings for Nine's weird world of cricket

    • Brian Matthews
    • 13 February 2008
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    This week we heard that the Ten Network has snared the rights to the forthcoming Indian Premier League series from Channel Nine. For three decades, broadcast cricket has been synonymous with Nine, which has delivered many advances including 'stump cam'.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The only hope

    • Robert Phiddian
    • 04 July 2006

    Robert Phiddian reviews Ghassan Hage’s Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for hope in a shrinking society.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The health of the whole

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 14 May 2006

    Tunisian human rights activist and University of Paris XIII Associate Professor of Public Health, Moncef Marzouki argues that there are three approaches to health.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Dirty hands, happy hearts

    • Nikki Fisher
    • 30 April 2006

    Getting children out of the house just became a little easier

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A guide to healthier families

    • Celia Conlan
    • 24 April 2006

    Celia Conlan finds food for thought in Fast Food and No Play Make Jack a Fat Boy, by Andy Griffiths, Jim Thomson and Sophie Blackmore.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Palatable pleasures

    • Christine Salins
    • 21 April 2006

    An international food summit in Adelaide has resolved to fight the spread of ‘techno-food’

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