http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/garry-egger/ Dr Garry Egger is Professor of Lifestyle Medicine at Southern Cross University and author (with professor Boyd Swinburn) of ‘Planet Obesity: How we are eating ourselves and the planet to death’. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/economic-growth-making-you-really-really-fat/ According to Andy Warhol, everyone has their “15 minutes of fame”. Looking back at four decades of work as a health scientist mine will probably be the development of ‘GutBusters’, the world’s first men’s “waist loss” program in 1991. GutBusters lasted for over a decade before it was taken over by Weight Watchers and closed down for being unprofitable (men won’t admit to having anything wrong with their health and hence won’t pay for it). This is despite the fact that it achieved (and still has) world-wide acknowledgement as an ethically-based and economic scientific weight loss program. Those are rare, by the way. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Garry Egger) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/economic-growth-making-you-really-really-fat/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/economic-growth-making-you-really-really-fat/#item6846 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:50:49 +0000 Garry Egger | Author bios | The Punch