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NEWS & VIEWS REFERENCES

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p10-12 Bariatric Surgery:

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p14-16 Independent overview of diabetes medication plus

p18-19 Hypoglycaemics at a glace:

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p20-22 Fit for it: Exercise and diabetes complications

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p24-26 Unashamedly Metformin:

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p28-29 Reality Check – Managing diabetes in the immigrant population

  1. New data deepens Diabetes fears in Sydney’s West. Western Sydney Diabetes Media centre July 11 2017 https://www.westernsydneydiabetes.com.au/whats-happening/new-data-deepens-diabetes-fears-in-sydneys-west-10-jul-2017
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  3. A picture of Diabetes in overseas born Australians AIHW, Holdenson Z, Catanzariti L, Phillips G, Waters A. 23 Oct 2003


p32-34 Food Stuff: Cheap eats

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  7. Kim Spurway and Karen Soldatic (2016) “Life just keeps throwing lemons”; the lived experience of food insecurity among Aboriginal people with disabilities in the West Kimberley, Local Environment, 21:9, 1118-1131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2015.1073235
  8. Williams, L.., Abbott, G., Thornton, L. Worsley, A., Ball, K. and Crawford, D. (2014). Improving perceptions of healthy food affordability: results from a pilot intervention. International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity, 11:33. Available via www.ijbnpa.org/content/11/1/33


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