Jill Stark

Jill Stark is a senior writer for The Sunday Age. She is the author of High Sobriety, a book about Australia's drinking culture and how she survived a year without booze.

Karin Wentworth-Ping with daughter Anxia

Happy lie

Sadly, parents get message wrong

Jill Stark Psychologists say it's vital children are taught to face harsh realities.

Weight-loss trade trims expectations

Jill Stark A new year: a new you. It's the diet industry's perennial catch cry. But as obesity rates continue to climb, weight-loss companies are rebranding their message.

Fresh start

Diet may help beat the blues

Jill Stark A world-first study by Australian researchers will investigate whether major depression can be treated with wholesome food.

Schoolies get what they want: booze and risky sex

Jill Stark Almost two thirds of teenagers at schoolies week celebrations will have more than 10 drinks a night and ''hook up'' with a stranger.

Therapy gains new couch life

Jill Stark IT'S maligned as a talking cure for the rich and neurotic, where Freud's theories of penis envy, castration anxiety and Oedipal urges are explored through endless years of couch therapy.

High sobriety

Jill Stark I was the binge drinking reporter. During the week I wrote about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends I wrote myself off.

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Clinics accused of stopping cheap IVF

Jill Stark OWNERS of private IVF clinics are putting profits ahead of progeny by not offering cheaper treatments that would give more Australian women access to reproductive therapy, one of the world's leading...

Rich pickings, fat or thin

Jill Stark JUNK food companies are making customers fat, then selling them the cure, health experts claim.

Pink steamrolls all on path to cancer kudos

Jill Stark THE breast cancer lobby's ''pink steamroller'' is diverting funding and public awareness from ovarian cancer and contributing to low survival rates, a leading specialist says.

War on obesity

Doctors call for ads that sicken to fight obesity

Jill Stark and Sarah Whyte GRAPHIC adverts similar to pictures on cigarette packets could be used on junk food as a desperate measure to curb the obesity epidemic.

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Season's stress with all the trimmings

Jill Stark CREDIT card debts, bad behaviour at work functions and simmering family disputes can conspire to make the festive season one of the year's most stressful times, mental health experts say.

Diabetes risk from dining out

Jill Stark and Elise Dalley A GOURMET meal may be as bad for you as a Big Mac, according to diabetes researchers who are alarmed at the rise in young men diagnosed with the disease.

Evidence lacking

Breast 'tests' could offer false sense of security

Jill Stark Cancer specialists warn that private clinics offering unproven breast screening methods as a ''safe'' alternative to mammograms could be putting women's lives at risk.