Conflict of interest, what conflict of interest?
Diet promoter suggests grading students based on their BMI.
Life at 3: obesity
Life at 3: Fighting Fat. Ooo boy. It probably wasn’t ever going to be good, was it? Good food, bad food, headless fatties and children in marginalised families reduced to obesity risks.
Quickhit: alpha status now assured
Carol Nader reports in the SMH today that the Official Generation Code-Naming Authority?—?there is one, right? an important body that declares that Generation Z is so 2009??—?has decided that as of the 1st of January, Generation Alpha is being born. (Apparently we aren’t yet using non-ASCII characters here in the future.) This means of course [...]
CSIRO report: levels of childhood obesity have remained largely unchanged for the past decade
Research casts doubt on ‘obesity epidemic’ New government research shows that levels of childhood obesity have remained largely unchanged for the past decade. For the first time since the mid 1990s, government scientists asked a large number of Australian children (4,400 between the ages of two and 16) about what they eat. In a survey [...]
Today’s fabricated panic: “Delayed” birth interventions causing childhood obesity?
Srsly. The ABC News is quoting economist Andrew Leigh as saying that the “delayed” interventions around baby bonus time is causing fatter children. A Canberra economist says an increase in the baby bonus could lead to unhealthier children. Research by the Australian National University’s (ANU) Andrew Leigh and a colleague suggests the introduction of the [...]
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