A social enterprise providing education and information to protect and enhance the mental health of young people
1. Weight loss is a simple matter of willpower We’ve all heard that weight loss is easy. People just need some good old-fashioned will power. This myth is so ingrained in our culture that it’s assumed that a person with a fat body is lazy and undisciplined which can lead to discrimination in employment opportunities and by health care professionals. "Most people [...]
I have always loved the movie ‘The Matrix’. I watched it again recently with my daughter Meaghan, and I can’t help but be struck by the parallels of the situation that Neo, Morpheus and their allies find themselves in the movie, with the circumstances of a growing number of people who are fighting passionately for [...]
WeightWatchers served up a super-sized offering of hypocrisy with the launch of its Plate of Our Nation campaign. Earlier this month the diet company teamed up with the chef and co-host of My Kitchen Rules, Pete Evans, to launch what it calls a ''national movement'' to ''investigate the root causes of Australia's growing obesity problem [...]
