Papers by Catriona Bonfiglioli
Overweight and obesity are widespread, with about two-thirds of British, American and Australian ... more Overweight and obesity are widespread, with about two-thirds of British, American and Australian people overweight or obese (IASO 2013). Overweight and obesity are associated with health risks, including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and cancer and health care costs (Colagiuri et al. 2010). These biomedical and economic views of weight as a disease to be cured and a cost to be contained are challenged as ideological positions built on assumptions that weight is a problem, obesity is an epidemic and fat people are diseased (Campos 2004; Gard and Wright 2005), and obesity measures such as the Body Mass Index (BMI) are objective ways to categorize people of size. However, the BMI, which uses the ratio of height to weight to categorise people as underweight, healthy weight, overweight, obese or morbidly obese, has been challenged for various reasons. These include that it medicalises healthy large people as diseased, fails to focus on risky abdominal fat and may categorise muscular bodies as obese (Evans and Colls 2009). Other discussions centre on whether nutrition is more important than exercise, whether particular foods or drinks should be held responsible, who or what is responsible and what responses are appropriate. The news media influence community policies (Maibach 2007: 360). They are recognised as an important source of health information (Wade and Schramm 1969; Johnson 1998), a driver of consumer demand (Appadurai 1986), a powerful influence over health behaviours and a critical arena for the struggle for semantic control (Gitlin 1980; Ryan 1991).
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Chemistry in Australia, Feb 1, 2013
If I had a sore tummy, rashes and smelly green poo, I would certainly be concerned about what I h... more If I had a sore tummy, rashes and smelly green poo, I would certainly be concerned about what I had been eating (or drinking). Any parent seeing their baby like this would worry even more.
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Chemistry in Australia, Jun 1, 2013
If a new disease struck almost one in three adults, you'd expect to read about it on the fron... more If a new disease struck almost one in three adults, you'd expect to read about it on the front pages, wouldn't you? But what if this condition snuck up on you very slowly and was hidden by a lack of clear symptoms and very little news coverage?
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Chemistry in Australia, Sep 1, 2011
Trying to kick the car habit is not easy but it brings benefits. Walking 16 minutes from the rail... more Trying to kick the car habit is not easy but it brings benefits. Walking 16 minutes from the railway station gives your mind a chance to wander. What I wondered is why we don't do more walking or other physical activity. Some answers are obvious: many of us are chained to computers or steering wheels by our need to earn a living, most of us are tempted by television, the internet and social media, and we often use weather or heavy burdens as an excuse not to catch the train or walk to the shops. Parents have to juggle work, shopping, child care and taxiing their kids from A to B and back again. But sometimes I see mums and dads sitting for an hour while their child practises an active pastime that they could also do.
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Chemistry in Australia, Mar 1, 2012
My mother, now 77, was starting to worry she might need a hip replacement because her hips and le... more My mother, now 77, was starting to worry she might need a hip replacement because her hips and leg muscles wouldn't stop aching. Then her friend in London announced that she was feeling much more agile since stopping her cholesterol-lowering medication. Despite her GP's reservations, Mother stopped her statins, gaining immediate relief and, eventually, full mobility.
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Chemistry in Australia, Nov 1, 2011
Sugar is simple* (March 2011, p. 39)! Starch is not: some starches are scantily clad floosies set... more Sugar is simple* (March 2011, p. 39)! Starch is not: some starches are scantily clad floosies set on luring innocent little insulin molecules out of the pancreas; others are modestly dressed and have to be wooed to release their sugar; and the most prudish are so coy we barely know they're there until they shack up with the good bugs in our nether regions.
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Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, Aug 1, 2011
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Of Substance: The National Magazine on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs, Apr 1, 2004
Tobacco and alcohol are major preventable causes of illness and death in Australia. To address th... more Tobacco and alcohol are major preventable causes of illness and death in Australia. To address this issue, experts around Australia have been working to design quick, effective tools which doctors and other health professionals can use to encourage patients to quit smoking, or to reduce alcohol consumption for the sake of their health.
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There's a cafe in Amman, Jordan, called Sugar Rush. This is what I call truth in advertising:... more There's a cafe in Amman, Jordan, called Sugar Rush. This is what I call truth in advertising: they know what we're looking for - a sugar hit. Other sugary communications are not so honest. For a start, sugar is often lumped with starch into a category called carbohydrates.
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