Australia One Of The Fattest Developed Nations
Analysis of avalable data from the Australian Institute of Health and Wefare shows that the rate of overweight and obesity has almost doubled Australia adluts over the last two decade. Australia is being ranked one of the fattest developed nation , closeely following rates.
Overweight in males and females in 1999/2000
In 1999/2000 Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle studies estimated 67%of adult men and 52% woman to be overweight or obese in 2000, around 7 milliom Australia adults. Males are more than females to be overweight, with almost half of adlut males estimated to be overweight compared to 30% of females. The levels of obesity are higher in females, The propostion of obesity are higher in females, with 22% of females estimated to be obese compared to 19% of males.
Overweight in children and adolescent in the age of 18 years
The analysis found that in 2001, around half of Australians ages 18 years were overweight and obesity. In constrast, based on the high propostion that obesity and overweigt in 1989 was under 40% . Therefore, it can be seen that form 10 years , the propositon of Australiam obesity and overweight were ramakably increased around 25%.
The estimated satistic of overweight and obesity in 2012
If this trend continutes, it is estimated that at leats 60% of Austrlia aged 18 years and over will be overweight or obese by 2012, and that will be one of the most epidemic desease in Australia
Overweight in males and females in 1999/2000
In 1999/2000 Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle studies estimated 67%of adult men and 52% woman to be overweight or obese in 2000, around 7 milliom Australia adults. Males are more than females to be overweight, with almost half of adlut males estimated to be overweight compared to 30% of females. The levels of obesity are higher in females, The propostion of obesity are higher in females, with 22% of females estimated to be obese compared to 19% of males.
Overweight in children and adolescent in the age of 18 years
The analysis found that in 2001, around half of Australians ages 18 years were overweight and obesity. In constrast, based on the high propostion that obesity and overweigt in 1989 was under 40% . Therefore, it can be seen that form 10 years , the propositon of Australiam obesity and overweight were ramakably increased around 25%.
The estimated satistic of overweight and obesity in 2012
If this trend continutes, it is estimated that at leats 60% of Austrlia aged 18 years and over will be overweight or obese by 2012, and that will be one of the most epidemic desease in Australia
In 2011 and the mild of 2012, Australia Health Survey relesed the statistic that 63,5 % , Australian aged 18 and over were subjected to obese and overweight, consited of 38% were obese, and 28% were overweight. 35 % were of normal weight and other 1.5 % were underweight
Australia has become the fattest nation in the world, with more than 9 million adults now rated as obese or overweight, according to an alarming new report.
The most definitive picture of the national obesity crisis to date has found that Australians now outweigh Americans and face a future "fat bomb" that could cause 123,000 premature deaths over the next two decades.
If the crisis is not averted, obesity experts have warned, health costs could top $6 billion and an extra 700,000 people will be admitted to hospital for heart attacks, strokes and blood clots caused by excess weight.
The latest figures show 4 million Australians — or 26% of the adult population — are now obese compared to an estimated 25% of Americans. A further 5 million Australians are considered overweight.
A grim picture is painted of expanding waistlines fuelled by a boom in fast food and a decline in physical activity, turning us into a nation of sedentary couch potatoes.
Those most at risk of premature death are the middle-aged, with 70% of men and 60% of women aged 45 to 64 now classed as obese.
it was previously thought that around 3 million adults were obese. But many past surveys were seen as unreliable as they often required participants to guess their own weight.
The latest data was based on more than 14,000 people at 100 rural and metropolitan sites in every Australian state and territory. Each had their BMI recorded by having their weight, height and waist measured as part of a national blood pressure screening day last year.
The report's lead author, Simon Stewart, said that even allowing for the BMI's potential failings, the best case scenario was that 3.6 million adults were battling obesity.
The obesity inquiry in Melbourne will be told that a national strategy encouraging overweight Australians to lose five kilograms in five months could reduce heart-related hospital admissions by 27% and cut deaths by 34% over the next 20 years.
Among the radical solutions proposed in the report is a plan to make fat towns compete for "healthy" status in national weight loss contests tied to Federal Government funding.
With the fastest growing rate of childhood obesity in the world, Australia must make radical changes to the way unhealthy food is promoted if the rate is to be reduced, his submission reads.
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Australia has become the fattest nation in the world, with more than 9 million adults now rated as obese or overweight, according to an alarming new report.
The most definitive picture of the national obesity crisis to date has found that Australians now outweigh Americans and face a future "fat bomb" that could cause 123,000 premature deaths over the next two decades.
If the crisis is not averted, obesity experts have warned, health costs could top $6 billion and an extra 700,000 people will be admitted to hospital for heart attacks, strokes and blood clots caused by excess weight.
The latest figures show 4 million Australians — or 26% of the adult population — are now obese compared to an estimated 25% of Americans. A further 5 million Australians are considered overweight.
A grim picture is painted of expanding waistlines fuelled by a boom in fast food and a decline in physical activity, turning us into a nation of sedentary couch potatoes.
Those most at risk of premature death are the middle-aged, with 70% of men and 60% of women aged 45 to 64 now classed as obese.
it was previously thought that around 3 million adults were obese. But many past surveys were seen as unreliable as they often required participants to guess their own weight.
The latest data was based on more than 14,000 people at 100 rural and metropolitan sites in every Australian state and territory. Each had their BMI recorded by having their weight, height and waist measured as part of a national blood pressure screening day last year.
The report's lead author, Simon Stewart, said that even allowing for the BMI's potential failings, the best case scenario was that 3.6 million adults were battling obesity.
The obesity inquiry in Melbourne will be told that a national strategy encouraging overweight Australians to lose five kilograms in five months could reduce heart-related hospital admissions by 27% and cut deaths by 34% over the next 20 years.
Among the radical solutions proposed in the report is a plan to make fat towns compete for "healthy" status in national weight loss contests tied to Federal Government funding.
With the fastest growing rate of childhood obesity in the world, Australia must make radical changes to the way unhealthy food is promoted if the rate is to be reduced, his submission reads.
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- About 4 milllion adult Australians are obese.
- The "fat bomb" is ticking loudly, with 72% of middle-aged males and 58% of middle-aged females overweigh or obese
- About 1.5 million middle-aged Australians are obese and therefore at high risk of a heart attack or stroke in the longer term.
Based on the best available evidence, our expanded middle-aged waistlines will result in an extra 700,000 cardiovascular-related hospital admissions in the next 20 years.
These highly preventable admissions will cost Australia, conservatively, an extra $3 billion in health expenditure and $6 billion overall.
An estimated 122,500 men and women will die, many prematurely, from heart problems related to their excess weight in the next 20 years.
A simple strategy such as losing 5kg in five months could reduce heart-related hospital admissions by 27% and deaths by 34% over the next 20 years.
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