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...delivers a speech like an actor. What he's about to say is "pretty frightening stuff," he tells an audience of mostly fellow academics in Sydney. "It should be R rated. It's not for the faint-hearted." And sure enough, Booth's lecture-on the results of a survey that found almost 25% of New South Wales pupils from infant school through Year 10 are overweight or obese, double the figure of 20 years ago-is chilling. After Booth, a researcher on adolescent health at the University of Sydney, reports some statistics about how much time kids spend staring...
...does anyone dispute that, according to the standard measuring tool of body mass index, or BMI (which is calculated by dividing body weight in kilograms by height in meters squared), the majority of Australian and New Zealand adults are either overweight or obese. Based on its National Health Survey 2004-05, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that 62% of men and 45% of women are above their ideal weight range (up from 52% and 37% respectively in 1995). Nor is there any argument that body weight has some relationship to health. Clearly, being severely obese (or severely underweight...
...looming, drop-everything health catastrophe that we're told it is? We say no." One thing highlighted by the obesity issue is how far apart the pronouncements of parts of the scientific community and the gut feelings of ordinary people can be. The ABS's National Health Survey tells us that most Australians consider themselves to be in very good or excellent health, and that the most commonly reported complaints are not ghastly complications of obesity but poor eyesight, hay fever, allergies and sore backs. And while BMI tables say many of them are wrong, nearly two-thirds of respondents...
...Australia's adult population, twice its prevalence 20 years ago-is a hitch for skeptics. A disease strongly correlated with obesity and once almost exclusively associated with ageing, type 2 diabetes appears to be striking more people, and earlier. For the N.S.W. Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey 2004 (SPANS), researchers took blood samples from 500 Year 10 students and found elevated insulin levels-a precursor to the disease-in almost 20% of them. Some researchers argue that obesity may be an early symptom of diabetes rather than a cause of it. They say eating better and exercising more...
...board, told daily Svenska Dagbladet. "I now understand it was no leak but hacking. I feel deceived." The revelations came towards the end of what had been an uneventful election campaign, centering on unemployment and welfare. Polls had consistently shown a slight lead to the opposition alliance, but a survey taken partly after the scandal broke indicated that the SDP may now have a small lead. But the scandal may not be the boon to Persson it appears if it turns voters off. "Some people might think the whole election is nonsense and abstain from voting," says Professor Henrik Oscarsson...