Balancing Food and Work How do you balance food and work? Morning teas, working lunches and after-work drinks coupled with sedentary office jobs and long commutes has lead to inconspicuous weight gain for many Australians. In this blog post, Susie explains that while she doesn’t expect working Aussies to be purists and avoid every morning tea, there are ways to understand (and manage) the most common office food traps. ...
Take Control of Your Eating How many times a day do you think about food? 5, 10, 20, 50?!? If it’s the latter, you may consider yourself to be slightly obsessive but it’s ok, we all focus on food more than we should sometimes. According to Susie: “There are many common types of disordered eating, namely the restrictive eater, the emotional eater, the serial eater, the serial dieter, the night binger and the health enthusiast. However, unlike eating disorders, disordered eating is not a clinical condition and can often be managed with a few basic behavioural strategies.” In this post, Susie describes the different...
Study links improved consumer welfare to increased prescription drug advertising efforts More people are better off thanks to the impact of an influx of direct-to-consumer advertising spending than they would be without those marketing efforts, according to a study recently published by Jayani Jayawardhana, an assistant professor in the University of Georgia College of Public Health. read more...
