Melbourne, Nov 13 (ANI): Girls as young as 12 years of age are buying rapid weight-loss products in order to starve themselves to achieve the super-skinny figures of their celebrity idols, claims a dietician.

Clare Collins, an associate professor in nutrition and dietetics at the University of Newcastle, said that it was essential to impose restrictive sale conditions on products such as meal replacement shakes and fasting or detox packages, to keep the young girls from buying and abusing the products.

Melbourne, Nov.12  :  Melbourne is on track to elbow Sydney aside as Australia's largest city.

Melbourne, Nov 12: A new study has challenged the widely believed view that high school students who lose their virginity at an early age tend to take to a life of crime.

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Melbourne, Nov 8 : According to a study, by the Western Australia Centre for Health Promotion Research, lesbians and bisexual women are less healthy than their heterosexual counterparts.

Melbourne, Nov 7 : Bosses who surround themselves with people who are like them are LINOs i.e. Leaders In Name Only, states a new book.