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Get well cards DR LIBBY’S GIFT OF HELP

‘When I was little, I think my mum could see I had the tendency to worry’

She’s Australasia’s most-loved women’s wellness whisperer, but Dr Libby Weaver almost swapped her career as an internationally acclaimed nutritional biochemist to become a journalist. It wasn’t until the 13-times bestselling author realised she only wanted to write about people’s health and nutrition behaviour – not news – that she flipped to biochemistry.

Twenty-one years on, with a PhD in

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