Statistics
- 60% of Australians are over weight or obese. 25% of these are obese
- Obesity is a leading cause of type 2 diabetes
- Obesity ruins health, destroys quality of life and causes premature death
- Obesity is the number one health issue facing the western world
- Obesity is now epidemic in the Australian Community
- Between 1985-1995 the levels of obesity in children has tripled
- In 2004 25% of boys were wither overweight or obese
- In 2004 23.3% of girls were either overweight or obese
- Obesity causes almost one-quarter of type 2 diabetes (23.8%)
- Obesity causes osteoarthritis (24.5%)
- Obesity causes around one-fifth of cardiovascular disease (21.3%)
- Obesity also causes colorectal, breast, uterine and kidney cancer
- 900,000 Australians suffer from diabetes
- Australia is today ranked as one of the fattest nations in the developed world. The prevalence of obesity in Australia has more than doubled in the past 20 years.
- In Australia, more than 17 million Australians are overweight or obese
- More than 4 million Australians are obese
- If weight gain continues at current levels, by 2020, 80% of all Australian adults and a third of all children will be overweight or obese
- Obesity has overtaken smoking as the leading cause of premature death and illness in Australia
- Obesity has become the single biggest threat to public health in Australia
- On the basis of present trends we can predict that that by the time they reach the age of 20 our kids will have a shorter life expectancy than earlier generations simply because of obesity
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are 1.9 times as likely as non-indigenous Australians to be obese
- 242,033 Australians had type 2 diabetes because of obesity
- 644,274 Australians had CVD because of obesity
- 422,274 Australians had osteoarthritis because of obesity
- 30,127 Australians had colorectal, breast, uterine or kidney cancer