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Fattest nation in the world?

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-AUG-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Fattest nation in the world?(THE RAW AND THE COOKED)

Article Excerpt
The long-running media panic around obesity in Australia seemed to reach a crescendo in June when The Age ran with the front page headline 'Nine million Australians are a ticking "fat bomb"'. Normally I'd blame sub-editorial hyperbole for the disturbing image this evoked, but the headline accurately mirrored the title of the Baker Heart Research Institute's report Australia's Future Fat Bomb.

Australia has become the 'fattest nation in the world' the report claimed, with more than 9 million adults 'obese or overweight'. The 'fat bomb' was set to cause 123,000 premature deaths.

It's now a decade since the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine questioned the usefulness of epidemiological studies of obesity,...

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