Obesity overtakes hunger as biggest threat, UNICEF warns
He said that struggling with obesity and unhealthy food is not related to individual or parent choices, but there are governments that protect children from sophisticated marketing, increase access to green areas and make healthier foods more suitable.
“It is a clear failure to continue saying ‘less food, more exercise’.” “This is an extremely stupid way to think… Because the forces that encourage passive consumption of passive food and established behaviors are enormous.”
Former President of the World Obesity Federation Professor Louise Baur said consecutive governments could not solve the causes of increased obesity rates. Credit: James Brickwood
Last year, a parliamentary investigation into Australia’s diabetes epidemic suggested that unhealthy beverages be taxed according to sugar content, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanian called for children under 16 years of age on television, online and play platforms.
The government has not yet responded to the proposals of the investigation.
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Australian Statistics Office Survey Data Released last week Australians have consumed lower -volume sugary drinks, but consuming more snacks than ten years ago, showing that fruit consumption decreased by 17 percent.
The UNICEF report has found ultra-processed foods-products with very few or no food in Fabriks-now at least half of the total intake of the total energy intake in Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
“These levels are so high that they match with a basic definition of food – that is, they form a dominant part of the diet of adolescents,” he said.
SYDney -based Child Health Children’s Health Paul Hotton, unhealthy meal, increased screen time and decreased exercise as a result of patients such as type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and cardiovascular problems, such as previous situations, he said.
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Royal Australia Royal Doctors College Pediatric and Children of Child Health Department of Hotton, “Academic issues, cognitive issues, sleep problems, we see more prevalence, then… We make transition to later adult life,” he said. “When these children become adults who need treatment to manage chronic diseases, we see it as a health problem that will have a really important financial impact on Australia within 15 or 20 years.”
UNICEF estimates that by 2030 obesity and overweight crisis will cost the Australian economy each year for $ 66 billion. In the report, the global economic impact may exceed $ 4 trillion ($ 6 trillion) if the current trends continue.
Australia’s neighbors in the Pacific have some of the highest obesity and overweight rates in the world: about two -thirds (62 percent) aged five to 19 in the Cook Islands; 56 percent in Tonga; and 49.6 percent in Samoa.
Millions of children around the world are low and at risk of hunger.
