January 2022: 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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• Building an evidence ecosystem: what’s worked in the pandemic
  MJA Insight, 31 January 2022

• More middle-aged women drink at binge-drinking levels
  ABC News, 27 January 2022

• Children whose parents smoke have lower test scores and more behavioural issues than kids of non-smokers
  The Conversation, 27 January 2022

• ‘Opportune moment’ to improve children’s health inequities
  newsGP, 26 January 2022
  
• Young woman put on life support after daily vaping habit sends urgent message
  news.com.au, 26 January 2022
  
• Doctor reveals severe health effects from heatwaves and humidity
  news.com.au, 25 January 2022

• Stop alcohol companies and lobbyists working to undermine health policy
  Croakey, 24 January 2022

• Australian booze lobby urges WHO to abandon plan to slash consumption
  Sydney Morning Herald, 21 January 2022
  
• Time in nature is good for our mental health … but what about artificial nature?
  ABC News, 21 January 2022
  
• Should Australia follow New Zealand’s lead on smoking?
  newsGP, 21 January 2022

• Kids whose grandparents are overweight are almost twice as likely to struggle with obesity
  The Conversation, 21 January 2022

• UK pupils taught about alcohol with ‘misleading’ industry-funded resources
  The Guardian (UK), 20 January 2022
  
• Unit owner barred from smoking on their balcony and the decision that will reverberate through Qld, experts say
  realestate.com.au, 20 January 2022
  
• Targeting children: unhealthy sports sponsorship deals
  Croakey, 19 January 2022

• ‘A ticking timebomb’: Australian doctors use social media to call for sugar tax on soft drinks
  The Guardian, 19 January 2022

• What 10 days of clean eating actually does to your body
  Sydney Morning Herald, 14 January 2022

• New world-first clinical trial on benefits of losing weight prior to pregnancy
  University of Sydney Newsroom, 13 January 2022

• The popularity of shisha smoking in young people and the unregulated space it exists in
  SBS The Feed, 11 January 2022

• The remarkable science of walking’s feel-good effects
  Sydney Morning Herald, 10 January 2022

• Australians’ inactivity levels could have major health effects, but some experts say fitness apps could help
  ABC News, 4 January 2022

• Even if you’re late for Dry January, don’t worry
  Canberra Times, 3 January 2022
  
• I’m approaching a ‘milestone’ birthday. What health checks should I have at my age?
  The Conversation, 3 January 2022
  
• Students suffer food insecurity at university campuses
  The Age, 2 January 2022
  
• The really old, racist and non-medical origins of the BMI
  ABC News, 2 January 2022

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