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Another myth exposed: the epidemic of childhood obesity and poor health in Australia

Posted on October 03, 2008

Just as in the United Kingdom and the United States, the myth of a growing epidemic of obesity and disease among Australia s children and teens has been shown false by its government s own statistics. It was only this summer when Australia s fat bomb was resoundly defused. Now, as proposals to address Australia s childhood obesity epidemic become increasingly extreme, costly and unsupported ...

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childhood , children , obesity , teens
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