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After a trial overseas found that paying children to eat their vegetables doubled healthy living, a new proposed initiative would see Australian tots get paid 25 cents a day to eat their greens at school. The initiative doesn't come cheap - in order to pay all the pupils between the age of five and 14, 25c a day to eat their veggies, it would cost the government over $136 million However, not...

With unrealistic portrayals from the media of what men and women should look like, a lot of girls feel pressured to look a certain way. However, a new doll created by Nickolay Lamm, was recently made, based on measurements of the average 19-year-old female in American. The Lammily doll, which was created to promote positive body image in girls, is slightly bigger than a regular Barbie doll and has...

At the moment, testing for Down’s syndrome involves a number of ultrasound scans of the baby as well as a blood test for the expectant-mum. Experts then estimate the woman’s chances of having a baby with the condition. However, a new medical development could soon provide women with a better blood test for Down syndrome as well as rare genetic conditions like Edward's syndrome and Patau...

Even with all the efforts many parents put into making sure their children are not exposed to smoke, a new study suggests that smoking around children should be cut out completely. In the study of 2,401 children from Finland and 1,375 children in Australia between three and 18, the researchers questioned children about their parents smoking habits and then measured the thickness of the...

Since the latest figures from the Department of Health have revealed the number of babies born with alcohol related disorders, campaigners want pregnant women to face prosecution if they drink. The figures revealed that over three hundred babies in the last two years were damaged from alcohol exposure while still in the womb and in the past three years, Foetal Alcohol Syndrome has risen by 50%. Dr...

According to new research, going to university for a long period of time and having a well-paid career is leading many women to delay having kids. The results of this is a huge rise in the number of pregnant women over forty. For the first time, the official count of pregnancies revealed that the number of women in their forties expecting children has overtaken the number of expectant mums in...

What appears to be a perfectly innocent gesture could be causing more damage to your teen’s health than you think. According to a US head lice lice expert Mary McQuillan, the selfie sensation is the cause of a soar in head lice among teens. The California-based expert says she has seen a dramatic rise in the instances of lice among young people and thinks the ‘head-to-head' contact of...

Obesity levels in Europe are so common that the World Health Organisation fears it is becoming a ‘norm’ among teens. Nearly a third of teens weigh more than they should and in a report on obesity levels in over 50 countries, it was found that obesity rates among 11-year-olds were highest in Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland. “Our perception of what is normal has shifted; being overweight...

Australian nurse Beth Whaanga has had a lot of things happen to her body. As well as having two scars melanoma lumpectomy, she is also missing the lymph node on the underside of her left arm. When she was told she is a carrier of the BRCA2 gene, a gene that puts women at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer, she underwent double mastectomy and a total hysterectomy. Her body now tells a story...

Many people don’t realise that serious clinical depression is very different to having the occasional ‘blues.’ It is a condition that will affect one in six people at some stage in their lives and make it harder for them to cope with daily struggles. But, new research showed that depression is a condition that could be prevented in boys by looking at saliva samples. UK researchers found that...