Palmer hits out at judges
Walk off diabetes risk
SITTING has been dubbed “the new smoking” because of the dangers associated with a sedentary lifestyle.
For years, public health experts campaigned for people to get off their backsides and include more activity in their lives to reduce high rates of obesity and chronic disease.
Now Australian researchers are examining whether interrupting prolonged sitting during pregnancy can improve blood sugar levels in mothers at risk of gestational diabetes.
Research fellow Robyn Larsen, at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, said recent evidence suggested regular, two to three-minute bouts of gentle walking could lower post-meal blood sugar levels by 24-35 per cent when compared with prolonged sitting. CLIVE Palmer has accused judges of secretly communicating about him, during an extraordinary attempt to halt a trial in which $22 million of his fortune is at stake.
The beleaguered tycoon made an 11th-hour bid yesterday to disqualify a Supreme Court judge from presiding over a case in which his flagship business, Mineralogy, is trying to avoid a $22 million debt allegedly owed to a Singapore-based exploration company.
But the bid was rejected amid concerns Mr Palmer had a “strategic purpose” for the move, which came on the final day of the trial in Brisbane.
The ex-politician filed an inflammatory affidavit late on Tuesday accusing Justice David Jackson, a West Australian judge and Federal Court judges of communicating about his many cases.
But Justice Jackson dismissed the application, saying he did not communicate with the other judges.
A decision will be handed down at a later date.