Journal article
Australian Bodies to Become Biggest in the World Within the Next Ten Years
Health at Every Size, Vol.19(4), pp.235-247
2006
Abstract
In Australia we have developed a size complex focused on bigness. We live on the biggest island continent in the world, we call ourselves a big country, and scattered throughout our wide brown land are innumerable icons: the Big Banana, Big Merino, Big Prawn, Big Oyster, Big Bull, Big Mower, to name a few. Here in my own backyard on the Sunshine Coast we have the Big Pineapple, Big Cow, Big Kart, and the lesser known but equally "interesting" Big Stubby (international translation: a stubby is a small beer bottle, as opposed to a big one). But there's one big race we are definitely not keen on winning-the race for the biggest bodies. Like many other countries, the average weight of the population is increasing, though not at anywhere near the rising rate of hysteria about it. And now the latest health reports from Australia suggest that we're on track to overtake America and become the biggest people in the world.
Details
- Title
- Australian Bodies to Become Biggest in the World Within the Next Ten Years
- Authors
- Lily O'Hara (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
- Publication details
- Health at Every Size, Vol.19(4), pp.235-247
- Publisher
- Gurze Books
- Date published
- 2006
- ISSN
- 1708-5926
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2006 Gurze Books. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449353502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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