Big Dave
7th August 2007, 18:50
<headline>More than half of adults obese: report</headline>
<byline>Yuko Narushima and Dylan Welch</byline>
<date>August 7, 2007 - 1:02PM</date>
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<!--articleExtras-wrap--> <bod> </bod>If you're an Australian adult, you're more likely to be obese than not, a report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today said.
The same publication said Australians were less likely to marry, more likely to divorce and said mothers were older but having more children.
More than seven million adults in Australia, which is 54 per cent of the adult population, were classified as obese in 2004-05, the ABS's Australian Social Trends 2007 said.
That represented a 9 per cent increase from 1995, when the figure was 45 per cent.
The study stated that obesity had reached "epidemic" proportions worldwide, and the increasing weight of Australians posed a risk to the nation's long-term health.
The study also found there was a correlation between income and obesity, with people in low-income households more likely to become obese. About 21 per cent of adults in low-income households were obese compared to 15 per cent in high-income households.
The statistics also showed that less people were concerned about their obesity in 2004-05, as compared with 1995.
Almost half of males (47 per cent) and one-fifth (21 per cent) of females who were obese considered themselves to be of acceptable weight. This compared with only a third of men (35 per cent) and just over one-tenth (12 per cent) of women in 1995.
<byline>Yuko Narushima and Dylan Welch</byline>
<date>August 7, 2007 - 1:02PM</date>
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<!--articleExtras-wrap--> <bod> </bod>If you're an Australian adult, you're more likely to be obese than not, a report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today said.
The same publication said Australians were less likely to marry, more likely to divorce and said mothers were older but having more children.
More than seven million adults in Australia, which is 54 per cent of the adult population, were classified as obese in 2004-05, the ABS's Australian Social Trends 2007 said.
That represented a 9 per cent increase from 1995, when the figure was 45 per cent.
The study stated that obesity had reached "epidemic" proportions worldwide, and the increasing weight of Australians posed a risk to the nation's long-term health.
The study also found there was a correlation between income and obesity, with people in low-income households more likely to become obese. About 21 per cent of adults in low-income households were obese compared to 15 per cent in high-income households.
The statistics also showed that less people were concerned about their obesity in 2004-05, as compared with 1995.
Almost half of males (47 per cent) and one-fifth (21 per cent) of females who were obese considered themselves to be of acceptable weight. This compared with only a third of men (35 per cent) and just over one-tenth (12 per cent) of women in 1995.