Fashion Observer Magazine June. 2014 | Page 128

Let’s have a look at what’s happening in Australia at the moment. • According to the National Health Survey, 61% of Australians are overweight. • Diabetes Australia’s economic costs estimation more than doubled to $58 billion, this time taking into account not just health care but job productivity and other related quality of living costs. • Experts are predicting that many of today’s children will not outlive their parents unless something is done to curb childhood obesity. • 70% of adolescent girls have body dissatisfaction • Body dissatisfaction is identified in the Mission Australia Youth Survey (2010) as the top ranked issue of concern for young people. It’s a misleading representation that sets a lot of ordinary people up to feel as if they are not succeeding in their pursuit of fitness or health unless they are in one extreme or another. I approach all people to be unique so I’ll never tell women to work out a certain number of times a week in order to see results. Instead I try to give people the tools they need, so that if they pu