Hospitals and Healthcare

As a federal election looms, now is the time for coordinated, strategic and innovative action from a unified, agile collective committed to improving Australia’s health and nutrition

Sugar taxes fail to tackle the root of the problem -- the production and marketing of foods that cause chronic disease.

The obesity epidemic in Australia is bringing with it a host of health problems, from diabetes to strokes. A major factor behind it is our addiction to sugar.

Food has the potential to be some of the best medicine. But not food like this.

As a physician, I need to be able to offer more wholesome and therapeutic options to my patients than what amount to synthetic sugary shakes with a middling amount of protein. Also upsetting is knowing that Medicare and Medicaid are footing the bill. And if the big food giants like Nestlé and Abbott and our hospitals aren’t working to provide more healthful alternatives, then practitioners and patients should work together to come up with their own.