In this episode I talk with Professor Stephen Touyz from The University of Sydney. He is a clinical psychologist specialising in eating disorders. His study from 2012 reserach the comorbidity between eating disorders and anxiety disorders to investigate how common it is for women to suffer from both illnesses at the same time or after one another.

This episode talks about my experience with anxiety and how it manifest itself through the characteristics of an eating disorder.

If you find yourself to be in a crisis situation or in a situation where you do harm to yourself? Contact emergency number at 000 or call lifeline at 13 11 14.

My Dirty Little Secret

Reflective Body Images From Social Media

This is eight years old Finn Marker. A football loving and a great big fan of rugby league in Australia. Almost two years ago he was diagnosed with Medulloblastoma, brain cancer, he did not make it. This type of cancer is the most common cancer tumor in childhood in Australia and affects 250-500 children each year. After the surgeons removed Finn's tumor he went on a six- week radiation treatment and seven months of chemotherapy treatment, but five days before the end of it, the scans revealed that his cancer had relapsed and spread like sugar down his spine. Today his mother, Bridget Marker, tells us his story.

Why Is There Not Enough Research On Brain Cancer

Following a peculiar and close encounter with a large shark in 2012, citizen scientist with an engineering and communication background, Kim Allen, raise the alarms after finding out about the tagging and tracking programs of sharks in Australia. 
What happened that day and what might have been the reason for their paths to cross?

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