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Nutritional and metabolic diseases

The World Today

Ingredient and nutrition information labelling of alcoholic beverages: do consumers want it?

Kypros Kypri, Alexandra McManus, Peter M Howat, Bruce R Maycock, Jonathan D Hallett and Tanya N Chikritzhs

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 669

Crisis

A food “lifeboat”: food and nutrition considerations in the event of a pandemic or other catastrophe

Anna Haug, Jennie C Brand-Miller, Olav A Christophersen, Jennifer McArthur, Flavia Fayet and Stewart Truswell

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 674-676

The World Today

Is caffeine in soft drinks really necessary?

Lynn Riddell and Russell S Keast

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 655

Correction

Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey

Alison J Venn, Russell J Thomson, Michael D Schmidt, Verity J Cleland, Beverley A Curry, Hanni C Gennat and Terence Dwyer

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (10): 599

Medicine and the Media — Research

Choice and voice: obesity debates in television news

Catriona M F Bonfiglioli, Ben J Smith, Lesley A King, Simon F Chapman and Simon J Holding

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (8): 442-445 Free

Letters

Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey

Alison J Venn, Russell J Thomson, Michael D Schmidt, Verity J Cleland, Beverley A Curry, Hanni C Gennat and Terence Dwyer

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 314-315

Book reviews

eMJA: Alcohol in pregnancy: how safe is it?

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5):

Letters

Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey

Margaret A Allman-Farinelli, Lesley King and Adrian E Bauman

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (5): 314-315

Research

Overweight, obesity and metabolic syndrome in rural southeastern Australia

Edward D Janus, Tiina Laatikainen, James A Dunbar, Annamari Kilkkinen, Stephen J Bunker, Benjamin Philpot, Philip A Tideman, Rosy Tirimacco and Sami Heistaro

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (3): 147-152 Free

Letters

“Failure to thrive” or failure to use the right growth chart?

Barbara Radcliffe, Jan E Payne, Helen Porteous and Simone G Johnston

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (12): 660-661

Medicine and the community

The role of family and maternal factors in childhood obesity

Lisa Y Gibson, Susan M Byrne, Elizabeth A Davis, Eve Blair, Peter Jacoby and Stephen R Zubrick

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (11): 591-595 Free

Letters

Accidental death from acute selenium poisoning

Tony Lewis

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (9): 487-488

Letters

Accidental death from acute selenium poisoning

Peter S Lavercombe

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (9): 487-488

Research

Overweight and obesity from childhood to adulthood: a follow-up of participants in the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey

Alison J Venn, Russell J Thomson, Michael D Schmidt, Verity J Cleland, Beverley A Curry, Hanni C Gennat and Terence Dwyer

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (9): 458-460 Free

Letters

Accidental death from acute selenium poisoning

Conor S Reilly

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (9): 487-488

Letters

Accidental death from acute selenium poisoning

Ian Brighthope

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (9): 487-488

Nutrition and Obesity

Traffic-light food labels

Trevor C Beard, Caryl A Nowson and Malcolm D Riley

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 19

Nutrition and Obesity

Obesity, law and personal responsibility

Ruth M Armstrong

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 20

Nutrition and Obesity

New Year’s resolution: let’s get rid of excessive food prices in remote Australia

Karen L Webb and Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 7-8 Free

Nutrition and Obesity

The increasing cost of the basic foods required to promote health in Queensland

Michelle S Harrison, Terry Coyne, Amanda J Lee, Dympna Leonard, Simone Lowson, Anita Groos and Bronwyn A Ashton

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 9-14 Free

Nutrition and Obesity

Nutrition-related disorders in Indigenous Australians: how things have changed

Michael S Gracey

Med J Aust 2007; 186 (1): 15-17 Free

Health care

Dietary protein intakes in patients with hepatic encephalopathy and cirrhosis: current practice in NSW and ACT

Joanne K Heyman, Carol J Whitfield, Kaye E Brock, Geoffrey W McCaughan and Anthony J Donaghy

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (10): 542-543 Free

Letters

Weight management in general practice: what do patients want?

Claire Hewat

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 344

Lessons from practice

Scurvy in an otherwise well young man

Sally J Mapp and Paul B Coughlin

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (6): 331-332 Free

Editorials

Nutrition surveys or surveillance: one-night stands or a long-term commitment?

Karen L Webb, Ingrid H Rutishauser, Geoffrey C Marks, Gregory Masters and Stephen R Leeder

Med J Aust 2006; 185 (5): 248-249