Australia Climbs In Obesity Rankings

[icyfroth]

The rapidly increasing number of overweight Australians has seen the country overtake Canada in the obesity rankings, with 28.3 percent of adults tipping the scales.

Australia is behind the United States, Mexico and New Zealand in the OECD's annual ‘Health at a Glance’ report.

Despite this, Australia ranks 18th when it comes to children being overweight, below the OECD average.

The OECD shows a negligible gender gap for obesity in Australia, while women in countries like Mexico, Chile, South Africa and Turkey are much more likely to be overweight.

India, Indonesia and China have the lowest rate of obesity in the OECD.

Australia is number one for fruit and vegetable consumption, while Finland, which has substantially fewer obese people, is at the bottom of the rankings.

Australia also has one of the lowest rates of smoking, with only 15 percent of people having a cigarette daily.

Life expectancy at birth in Australia is 82 years old, the seventh best in the OECD and two years higher than average.

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Hmmm. I wish I'd read this before I had a slice of Christmas cake for my morning tea.

[*crikey*mate*]

I had 2 of these for dinner last night

Yummo

But with all the stuff that old people have to face can't see what's so good about having a high life expectancy. medicine and science should have just worked out how to get us to about 50 as easily as possible and then just stopped and let us go. That would have been the kind thing to do.

Eat right, exercise, die anyway - usually really bloody horribly or after some torturous **bleep** one had to endure just to get a few more years.

DISCLAIMER: I hope that no one else thinks as I do and they all continue to eat a healthy diet and pursue a healthy lifestyle for an eternity, otherwise my new business will go broke and it has only just started earning me a wage!

Keep promoting healthy lifestyles and longevity as a good thing - the industry is booming!

[cat_mioux]

The "low fat" trend is partly to blame for the obesity epidemic.

When you take out good fats you have to replace it with something to give it flavour - so manufacturers add sugar in all it's many different forms.

We eat way too many carbs - carbs convert to sugar. Too many carbs and fat and sugar leads to so many health problems i.e obesity, diabetes, inflamatory diseases.

My diet consists of 80% fat in the form of cream, olive oil, nuts, avocado, full fat Greek yogurt, full fat Cream Cheese. Not only have I lost 13% body fat, my blood sugar level has dropped from 6.5 to 4.7.

If you are interested just google Low Carb/ High Fat diet.

[love*today]

I would rather be fit and healthy than fat and lazy!

Ugh, must be awful living a sluggish life. Give me energy and the endorphins from exercising everyday 🙂

I read a little while ago that Townsville is the fattest city in oz. Wouldn't surprise me, the other night waiting in a car park I watched customers coming and going. It was gross the amount of huge people and it was mainly women. Honestly only saw a handful of "normal" weight range women, the rest wre overweight. It puzzles me in this climate up here how people can live with all that fat.

[love*today]

I was wrong, townsville isn't even in the top ten.

NATIONAL RATE OF OBESITY
1 Bundaberg (QLD) 24.45
2 Kempsey (NSW) 24.41
2 Bowen (QLD) 24.41
4 Maryborough (QLD) 24.31
5 Lithgow (NSW) 24.20
6 Cessnock (NSW) 23.86
7 Nambucca (NSW) 23.80
8 Broken Hill (NSW) 23.79
9 Parkes (NSW) 23.66
10 Inverell (NSW) 23.33
(Rates per 100 people)

[*crikey*mate*]

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@love*today wrote:
I would rather be fit and healthy than fat and lazy!

Ugh, must be awful living a sluggish life. Give me energy and the endorphins from exercising everyday 🙂

I read a little while ago that Townsville is the fattest city in oz. Wouldn't surprise me, the other night waiting in a car park I watched customers coming and going. It was gross the amount of huge people and it was mainly women. Honestly only saw a handful of "normal" weight range women, the rest wre overweight. It puzzles me in this climate up here how people can live with all that fat.

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I'm into the whole healthy lifestyle thing. for the reasons you say, not because I have any ambition to live to be 82 though. Crikey, I even gave up the smokes!

[**meep**]

You can't go wrong following the CSIRO diet.  The Total Wellbeing and the Diabetes Diet and Lifestyle Plan.

[*crikey*mate*]

it doesn't even have to be that hard.

100g protein, 250g coloured veg (not ones with carbohydrates) and some good oil at 3 meals a day, then another 2 to 3 similar meals a day for matabolic precision, but can be in the form of appropruate liquid meals.

3 x 30 minute ICE sessions a week and 3 weight bearing sessions 45 minutes incl rest and recovery (1 legs, 1 upper body, 1 core)
 make sure you have some sweet potato or brown rice within 45 minutes of completing a weight session and Bob's your uncle!

healthy lifestyles really don't have to be complicated. stick to the above for 39 out of 42 weekly opportunities and you're in like flynn, and if you give up the smokes as well - you can run a lot further a lot faster without coughing up a lung LOL - 5klm in 30 minutes is not unrealistic

[*crikey*mate*]

and if you can't or don't want to make your own metabolic precise meals there's a company that is doing all the hard work for you. and the food is fresh, not frozen. Delivered to your door in 2 states (Qld and NSW) and available from fridges in participating stores in NSW (7), Qld (35) and Vic (1) with plans to expand further and into other states as the logistics of the supply chain is established and able to be implemented.

[**meep**]

it doesn't even have to be that hard.

No, of course not.  Portion control.   But if you're looking for some guidence, as I said, the CSIRO is the go.