2003. Overweight and obesity in Australia: the 1999-2000 Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Life- style Study (AusDiab). Med. J. Aust. 178(9): 427-432. PMID: 12720507.Biggs M: Overweight and Obesity in Australia. Parliament of Australia, Parliamentary Library, e-brief. 5 October 2006, (...
The rate of obesity and overweight in children in Australia is now approximately 25% [National health screening 2007/2008, [8]] but there has been little exploration of the relationship between soft drink consumption and body weight in Australia apart from one small study [9, 10]. However ...
The high prevalence of child obesity remains a global public health concern, but appears to be plateauing in many high-income countries, including Australia [1]. In Australia, sustained multi-level public health interventions have contributed to the recent stabilising of child obesity, but not amon...
Trends in the prevalence of adult overweight and obesity in Australia, and its association with geographic remoteness Article Open access 31 May 2021 Application of single-level and multi-level modeling approach to examine geographic and socioeconomic variation in underweight, overweight and obesit...
Page 1 QUESTION: Discuss the factors that contribute to childhood obesity in Australia. You should use at least 5 academic sources to support your response. The emergence of childhood obesity is a serious medical issue which has been widely documented as a global epidemic that has had a ...
In 2008, over one-third of adults over 20 years of age in Australia were overweight.[1] [2] Obesity is a growing problem in all westernised nations. In the United States the prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents aged 2-19 years resides at about 17%.[3] In contrast, more...
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Differences in overweight and obesity among Australian schoolchildren of low and middle/high socioeconomic status. Med J Aust 2003; 179: 63. PubMed Google Scholar Australian Bureau of Statistics 2003. http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/3C268646099C00C1CA256CAE0010852E?Open&Highlight...
It was just a show on TV one night here in Australia. It might have been on 3 months ago. Personally I have no problem believing that the main cause is genetic. A lot of people say that the main cause is diet. I am sure diet plays a large role as well. To refer to genetics th...
In Australia, the food industry and public health groups are locked in serious struggle for regulatory influence over the terms of front-of-pack food labelling. Clear, unambiguous labelling of the nutritional content of pre-packaged foods and of standardized food items sold in chain restaurants is...