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Every hour of TV watched by the over 25’s could shorten their life by 22 minutes. A recent study carried out in Australia and published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has found that watching too much television could shorten your life. Dr Lennert Veerman, from the School of Population Health at the University [...]
Net Savvy: Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) is a national non-profit organisation of more than 1,500 members (organisations and individuals), working to create better futures for Australia's children and young people. ARACY pioneers preventive action to improve the health and wellbeing of children [...]
The latest research has found that young women regularly have more than 20 standard drinks during a good night out. This means they often blow in excess of $300 in an evening. It seems that changes in social and moral behaviour are behind young women drinking more. This soar in alcohol consumption by “girls that [...]
It has long been the view of experts that second hand smoke (SHS) can be harmful to both smokers and non smokers alike. It is now recognised that exposure to SHS, especially among young people, can influence their risk of taking up smoking as biologically, inhaled smoke increases the urge to smoke. A recent study, [...]
