December 2021: preventive health in the news

The list is not comprehensive and mainly focusses on topics relevant to the work of the Prevention Centre. Some articles may be behind paywalls but we try to avoid them.

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• Binge drinking and alcoholism are problems across Australia, but more visible in outback towns
  ABC News, 30 December 2021
  
• Has the pandemic fundamentally changed our ethics?
  The Conversation, 29 December 2021
  
• Take a closer look: how more and more students are catching the citizen science bug
  The Conversation, 29 December 2021
  
• How exercise may affect our alcohol consumption
  Sydney Morning Herald, 26 December 2021
  
• Why are young people drinking less than their parents’ generation did?
  The Conversation, 24 December 2021
  
• How the food industry blocks action to protect children’s health
  Croakey, 24 December 2021
  
• On the National Preventive Health Strategy, some rays of hope
  Croakey, 24 December 2021
  
• These foods need scary ‘tobacco-style’ health warnings, experts say
  News.com.au, 23 December 2021
  
• Five key lessons from the fight against alcohol-related harm
  Croakey, 23 December 2021
  
• McDonald’s seems to be using social media to reach children in poorer countries more than wealthier ones: Study
  News.com.au, 22 December 2021
  
• World Health Organization puts commercial determinants of health on the map
  Croakey, 22 December 2021
  
• As harmful food systems undermine our health, what are the pathways to transformative change?
  Croakey, 21 December 2021

• Australia’s age gap: luck at birth can mean nine years extra life
  The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 December 2021

• Could Australia become a smoke-free nation?
  ABC, 17 December 2021

• New health plan puts focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and leadership
  Croakey, 17 December 2021

• Alcohol-related harm costing the nation $67 billion a year: study
  The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 December 2021

• The pandemic turned alcohol delivery services into a booming industry. Now, government regulation is racing to catch up
  Business Insider Australia, 16 December 2021

• What South Africa’s COVID alcohol restrictions point to for future policy
  Croakey, 16 December 2021

• At long last, we have a National Preventive Health Strategy. What next?
  Croakey, 15 December 2021
  
• How can the health sector contribute to climate action? Some ways forward…
  Croakey, 15 December 2021
  
• Chronic health conditions placing workforce on a knifes edge
  Canberra Times, 15 December 2021

• We analysed a decade of media coverage of obesity – this is what we found
  The Conversation UK, 14 December 2021

• Why wearable fitness trackers aren’t as useless as some make them out to be
  The Chronicle, 13 December 2021
  
• Obesity will spawn 10,000 thyroid cancers in the next decade
  The New Daily, 12 December 2021
  
• Emotions run high as parkrun Australia restarts nationwide
  The Guardian, 11 December 2021
  
• Dietary guidelines advice ‘too carb-heavy to prevent type 2 diabetes’
  Canberra Times, 11 December 2021
  
• Why the Marlboro man will probably beat a lifetime tobacco ban
  Sydney Morning Herald, 10 December 2021
  
• As Aotearoa New Zealand leads the way on tobacco control, will Australia step up?
  Croakey, 10 December 2021
  
• COVID kilos: why now is the best time to shed them
  The Chronicle, 10 December 2021

• New report reveals which supermarkets have healthiest, most Aussie foods
  News.com.au, 9 December 2021

• As symposium spotlights public health workforce concerns, young researchers call for action
  Croakey, 6 December 2021
  
• What can we do about ‘Big Food’ and diabetes?
  Canberra Times, 6 December 2021

• One in five future thyroid cancers linked to excess weight
  UNSW Newsroom, 6 December 2021

• COVID saw us sitting longer – and diabetes rose globally by 16% in 2 years. Time to get moving
  The Conversation, 6 December 2021

• HEAL Network to tackle impacts of environmental change
  MJA Insight, 6 December 2021
  
• Australian blood pressure control rates “atrocious”: call to action
  MJA Insight, 6 December 2021
  
• Making the tobacco industry pay for cigarette litter could stop 4.5 billion butts polluting the Australian environment
  The Conversation, 6 December 2021
  
• Global health leaders to address corporate and other drivers of unhealthy food systems
  Croakey, 5 December 2021
  
• Everyone is hooked on the idea but 10,000 steps a day is not the ideal
  Sydney Morning Herald, 4 December 2021
  
• ‘Risky levels’: Australia is the drunkest country in the world, survey finds
  The Guardian, 3 December 2021
  
• What can we gain from open access to Australian research? Climate action for a start
  The Conversation, 3 December 2021
  
• How exercise affects your appetite
  Sydney Morning Herald, 3 December 2021
  
• How consumption of processed foods can cause insulin resistance, a key factor in metabolic diseases
  Canberra Times, 2 December 2021

• Silent Assassin: Don’t turn a blind eye to the dangers of a sugar-filled diet
  Canberra Times, 1 December 2021

• Scientists developing ‘exercise’ in a pill
  Australian Associated Press, 1 December 2021
  
• One in six Victorian women more physically active during 2021 lockdowns, according to survey
  ABC News,1 December 2021

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