What the?

I can't believe what I'm reading right now, and yet I can't stop reading it, like watching a train wreck I suppose. It's a book by a very well-respected Australian

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Water myth?

The Courier Mail reports (4-4-08) that researchers from the Uni of Pennsylvania in the US found that drinking 8 glasses of water a day is essential for good health and

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Not eating can make you fatter

The British Psychological Society’s annual conference in Ireland heard that people who starve themselves one day and binge the next, will have a harder time losing weight. Eating the same

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Thin and Perfect in the TV Studio

I'll warn you now, this is completely an opinion piece, no science, read on at your peril! As I was writing yesterday's post about the media spruiking the diabetes is

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If You're Fat, You'll be Diabetic

Personally, this is one of the oft-repeated media messages that I most love! Because it's usually repeated with such conviction that it's the absolute truth, I just have to laugh

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Dying to be Thin (LINK)

It seems to me that we mostly think of the death rates around weight issues to be related to anorexia, or the diseases 'linked' to being overweight. In our cultural

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Artificial Sweeters make you fat

The well-documented and often life-destroying health risks from aspartame aside, US researchers have now found that artificial sweeteners are more likely to make you fat! Imagine that..... The research was

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Fool's Gold

Took in a light movie at the weekend, Fool's Gold with Matt wotisname-with-the-tan and Kate Hudson. Two things really struck me: 1. Kate Hudson's gorgeous isn't she? One of the

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Perfect Brad

The Courier Mail (28 Jan 08) reports results of a survey of 20,000 plastic surgeons around the world, into their patients’ preferences. Apparently the perfect woman has lips and eyes

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We won't say we're fat?

And really, why would you when overweight people are treated like pariahs in our culture? The Aussie Govt has just released a study (reported in the Courier Mail 26 Jan

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