Jenny Kaldor
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Is your summer barbeque under fire? Chewing over the evidence on meat and cancer, and digesting the implications for regulation
The report We’ve now had a few weeks to chew over the latest report linking food and cancer. Only this time it wasn’t a puff-piece in your Sunday newspaper, but an extremely comprehensive report from IARC, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer. After a systematic review, IARC’s findings on the links…
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World Health Organisation publishes new report on overweight, obesity, diabetes and the law
This is the view when you look out the front gates of the World Health Organisation’s regional headquarters in Manila. A few blocks away, in the processed food aisles of the supermarket, parents are encouraged to purchase “nutrition power for kids”. The Western Pacific Region, which includes Australia, is home to 138 million adults with…