Medical Forum asks a GP, a paediatric dietitian, a public health advocate, and a researcher to share their work and views on tackling the obesity epidemic. In the 1990s, 21% of Australian children were recorded as overweight or obese. In 2014-15 that percentage had grown to 27%; one in five children aged between two and four were considered overweight or obese. Figures for the adult population show 63% of adults in 2015 were considered overweight or obese and that’s earned Australia the ignominy of being the fifth heaviest nation in the OECD. But it is the escalating rates of childhood…
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