“ Australia is the fifth most overweight country in the world”
Shockingly, the prevalence of obesity in Australia has almost doubled over the past 20 years. Chloe Wang will investigate the dramatic power of obesity and unhealthy life choices in this article.
Most of you are probably sitting at home, lounging on the sofa, eating a pack of chips and watching TV after school. Little do you know that habits like these can lead to something much bigger than you would have thought. Habits such as not exercising your body enough can lead to you being overweight. Do you want to have a short life expectancy? Do we want to be the labelled as the generation where we are fat and lazy? On the other hand, do we want to live healthy and active? We must question ourselves about our life choices and actions in order for us to live healthily.
Obesity is where we consume too much fat in our body and we can’ t burn it off. This leaves us having more body mass index than needed or technically, overweight. Our body mass index is used to monitor body weight to see if we are going over overweight. The simplest of things including: eating too much fat, sugars and carbohydrates and not exercising enough, can cause obesity.
Obesity is the third highest contributor to burden of disease( death) and is only beaten by smoking and high blood pressure. Also, based on present information and trends of obesity, we can predict that by the time us children reach the age of 20, we will have a shorter life expectancy than earlier generations.
Obesity is leading our young generation to death and our population will greatly decrease. Obesity can also lead to type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and higher chances of heart attack. Most of the time, the fat clots up in the arteries over time and we don’ t know, therefore leading to heart attack. Usually only 3 % of victims of heart attack, survive. Obesity is found in 3 out of 5 adults in Australia, which is more than 12 million people! Moreover, 1 in 4 children are overweight or obese. The deadliness of obesity cannot be understated!
“ Obesity is found in 3 out of 5 adults in Australia
As well as this, obesity has led to many disadvantages when growing up in life. When we are overweight or obese, we tend to fall to sleep disorders, moodiness, sore joints, discrimination and affect our productivity. Overweight or obese people can do the same job as well as any other normal weight person can, but due to their obesity, they tire out quicker, and