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Congratulations Australia, You're Number One!
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| idoru |
| quote: | AUSTRALIA has overtaken the United States as the world's most obese nation, a new report says.
The report, Australia's Future Fat Bomb, says 26 per cent of adult Australians - almost 4 million people - are now obese, 1 million more than the last calculation in 1999.
The findings mean Australia is the world's most overweight nation, ahead of the notoriously super-sized Americans, who have a 25 per cent obesity rate.
"That, unfortunately, makes us the heavyweight champions, a title we don't really want," said Professor Simon Stewart, the author of the report and head of preventive cardiology at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne.
The report says that 9 million adults have a body mass index over 25, making them overweight or obese, an increase from 7 million. Experts have called for obese people to be given gym discounts and for surgical waiting lists to be prioritised on the basis of weight loss.
The report presents the results of height and weight checks on 14,000 adult Australians nationwide in 2005, giving the most thorough picture of obesity since the AusDiab study in 1999.
The data suggests there will be an extra 700,000 heart-related hospital admissions in the next 20 years due to obesity. Almost 125,000 people will die as a result.
"I would regard this as the biggest threat to our future health," Professor Stewart said.
"As we send our athletes off to the Olympics, let's reflect on the fact that we would win the gold medal now in the world fat Olympics if there was such a thing.
"The health care system is going to be overwhelmed by weight-related hospitalisations from knee replacements through to heart attacks and strokes." |
http://www.smh.com.au/news/health/a...3770827371.html |
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| jonSun |
| Dammit. I guess its back to Mc D's & Taco Bell everyday to secure #1 again. :( |
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| Audious |
| So does that mean we get to snub people now? |
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| chach |
| quote: | Originally posted by Audious
So does that mean we get to snub people now? |
lol |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by jonSun
Dammit. I guess its back to Mc D's & Taco Bell everyday to secure #1 again. :( |
I'm seriously considering going to Taco Bell now because of this post. you. :( |
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| enydo |
| Taco Bell does sound rather good right now... |
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| jonSun |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
I'm seriously considering going to Taco Bell now because of this post. you. :( |
actually Taco Bell has been on my mind all day but my fat American ass is too lazy to get up. :( |
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| r5a |
i can only handle mcpukes every 2 months.
anytime i have mickys i like a ing demon 2 hrs right after, with any of their food. oh so good but the aftereffects are terrible. my turns into a volcano, ting turds like magma.
im actually surpised at this overtaking though... wheres that fat tubb of lard pkc for comment? |
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| Yan |
Got a great idea based off the cannibalism thread.
What if we eat the fat Australians? That's like killing two dingos with one boomerang. |
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| kadomony |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yan
Damn Australyans giving all us other Yans a bad name.
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| RJT |
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| inconspicuous |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
Taco Bell does sound rather good right now... |
not without tomatoes. |
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