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Gardening
Life Skills Attack on Obesity
www.gould.edu.au/html/news-single.asp?ID=35
Obesity should
be attacked with a national campaign of life skills to teach
students how to grow their own healthy food and to understand
the health value of drinking water instead of sugar laden
soft drinks.
Drought
Hardened Grounds Injury Threat
www.gould.edu.au/html/news-single.asp?ID=33
Australia’s
drought has had a major impact on farming and the economy
and is also a long term threat to Australian sport with
player safety under threat according the Gould Group.
State’s
top doctors leading the push for health system change
www.health.wa.gov.au/press/view_press.cfm?id=612
Some of the State’s
top doctors including Professor Fiona Wood and Dr Sudhakar
Rao have signed up to oversee sweeping changes to health
care services in Western Australia.
Conference
Highlights Dangers of Junk Food Ads
www.ama.com.au/web.nsf/doc/WEEN-6TD5WS
The
AMA again calls on the Government to urgently implement
a powerful anti-obesity plan including bans on junk food
advertising to children, removing sugary soft drinks and
other junk food from schools, conducting an independent
national nutrition survey and re-designing urban environments
to encourage incidental exercise.
More
Sunshine for At-Risk Kids
www.ama.com.au/web.nsf/doc/WEEN-6T65BJ
Some
kids in Australia and New Zealand are not getting enough
sun, and as a result, rickets and other vitamin D deficiency-related
conditions are making a comeback, experts have revealed
in the latest Medical Journal of Australia.
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