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Newspaper Article: Minus a Stretch, you might just win - 0 views

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    A PASSIVE warm-up routine before competitive team sports harms performance but athletes continue to overuse the technique, research has found. James Zois, from Victoria University's school of sport and exercise science, said too many athletes were still using static stretching techniques such as calf, hamstring, quad and hip flex stretches before competing even though it has been shown to reduce power.
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Five unhealthy habits sending us to an early grave - 0 views

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    That's how much longer adult Ontarians would live, on average, if they could collectively overcome five unhealthy habits: smoking, excess alcohol consumption, poor diet, sedentary behaviour and stressing out. That is the conclusion of a new report from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Public Health Ontario.
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Running on thin air | Chief Scientist of Australia - 0 views

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    Athletes around the world are living atop virtual mountains in the quest for faster race times. Here, we take a look at the science behind altitude training.
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We were hippies about immunisation - 0 views

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    Ian Williams is a smart guy - a scientist, an inventor, a businessman - but when it came to son Alijah's health he dismissed science and behaved like a "hippy", creating a situation where Alijah almost died. "Blood is dripping from his mouth and he is saying 'save me daddy'," Williams told the Sunday Star-Times. "I was holding the hand of my kid who had an arched back, the muscles could break his bones at any second, and his heart could stop."
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Huge increases in parents not wanting to immunise their children - 0 views

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    The medical community has called for the anti-immunisation lobby to wind back its efforts after figures showed the number of parents refusing to vaccinate their children has increased six fold. The Academy of Science, supported by the Australian Medical Association, is today launching a 20-page booklet to explain the benefits of immunisation and try to debunk common myths
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The extraordinary science of the addictiveness of junk food - 2 views

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    Article from the New York Times about why people find it so difficult to break the grip of Junk Food. It looks at the addictive nature of junk food.
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Fatty Foods as addictive as cocaine - 0 views

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    Cupcakes may be addictive, just like cocaine. A growing body of medical research at leading universities and government laboratories suggests that processed foods and sugary drinks made by the likes of PepsiCo Inc. and Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT) aren't simply unhealthy. They can hijack the brain in ways that resemble addictions to cocaine, nicotine and other drugs.
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