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and a super size-sugared fizdrink, a giant chips bucket with your triple-cheese-double-bacon-fat pattie-hamburger in sugar buns?

fat kids

Across Australia, rising rates of child obesity are already having a severe impact.

Leading diabetes expert Professor Paul Zimmet is shocked by the rise of obesity-linked type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents.

'This is a condition which was almost unheard of 20 to 30 years ago in this particular age group. I think the type 2 is moving very close to the figure for type 1 diabetes in children,' he says.

Professor Louise Baur is an expert in severe childhood obesity at Westmead Children's Hospital. She's now seeing children in kindergarten and Year 1 who are so obese they need a machine to keep their airway open at night.

'I have certainly seen children who are just starting primary school who are already on CPAP machines to help with their breathing because of obstructive sleep apnoea. These are issues that 20 to 30 years ago, when I was a more junior doctor, we never ever saw,' she says.

Australia has no national obesity strategy to beat the bulge, but Victoria's Healthy Together program has drawn praise from public health experts and the World Health Organisation.

Dr Timothy Armstrong is from the WHO's newly-formed Commission to End Childhood Obesity.

'That Victorian program is world-recognised. In fact, not only New Zealand but the UK and Canada are also copying aspects of the Victorian model,' says Armstrong.

In May, the federal government axed the entire National Partnership Agreement on Preventative Health, which funded Healthy Together Victoria.

Victoria's previous Coalition government stepped in and guaranteed Healthy Together Victoria would continue, but they have since lost power and despite repeated requests for information by Background Briefing, the newly elected Labor government has made no promises.

read more: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/2014-12-07/5936412#transcript

 

a weight gain of a massive 10.5 kilograms...

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the experiment of Mr Prior is similar to that of Morgan Spurlock, a filmmaker, who ate nothing but McDonald's for a span of a month. It was a part of Super Size Me, an American documentary film. 

Mr Prior updated both, his Facebook as well as his YouTube channel, to show the transformation of his body after he undertook the experiment. His updates include five video diaries. The change in diet costed him a weight gain of a massive 10.5 kilograms. His body fat percentage also took a leap from 9 to 16 percent. 

Mr Prior, in the first video of his video diaries, said that he had just gotten back from the doctor where he had a complete physical. He added that he was in good health and the one change that he was going to make to his diet was that he was going to start drinking 10 Cokes a day. He said that it added 1400 more calories to his daily intake. He continued that he was going to see how the increase in sugar and insulin load would affect his health. 

He said that according to the US department of Agriculture, more than half the people in America consumed a daily equivalent of 10 Cokes per day, in various combinations of energy drinks, juices and other dietary forms. He said that he took part in the experiment because of what the US department of Agriculture said. 

 

read more: http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/574985/20141205/man-coke-kilograms-10-month.htm#.VIOTUkbrxsE

fat sick kids of the future are already here...

 

see also: who knows what chemicals are streaming into the food supply...

and: considered private property rather than a common good...

 

and: fighting jumbo logistics...

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Being severely obese can knock up to eight years off your life and cause decades of ill health, a report says.

The analysis showed being obese at a young age was more damaging to health and life expectancy.

The team, at McGill University in Canada, said heart problems and type 2 diabetes were major sources of disability and death.

Experts said people were frequently "ignorant" of the consequences of obesity.

The health problems caused by obesity are well known.

The report, in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, used a computer model to take those risks and calculate the impact of weight on life expectancy throughout life.

In comparison with 20 to 39-year-olds with a healthy weight, severely obese men of the same age lost 8.4 years of life and women lost 6.1.

Men also spent 18.8 more years living in poor health while women spent 19.1 in that state.

Moving up an age group to those in the forties and fifties, men lost 3.7 years and women 5.3 years to obesity.

Men and women in their sixties and seventies lost just one year of life to obesity, but still faced seven years in ill health.

read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30327777

 

Australia's food safety regulator wants you to die early...

 

Health experts have criticised Australia's decision not to label food products containing trans fats, after health ministers recently accepted the recommendation by Australia's food safety regulator to reject compulsory labelling.

Trans fats are linked to heart disease and cancer and have been all but banned in a number of European countries.

The recommendation said the amount of trans fats on average in Australian food was so low it did not pose a significant health risk, though there were concerns many Australians were still consuming dangerously high levels of trans fats.

Jane Martin from the Obesity Policy Coalition said people deserved to know.

"Trans fats should be labelled on the nutrition information panel if they're above a certain level," she said.

"They're very dangerous to people's health and we need to empower people to make healthier choices and if they don't have the information they can't do that."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-27/health-bodies-criticise-trans-fats-labelling/6267924

 

Simple conclusion: under this rabid Abbott fascist regime, the Australia's food safety regulator (possibly the one advised by a former chocolate executive, a friend of a friend of Turdy Tony, that helped remove the [health] food star website) wants you to die early... This would save on long drawn out pension. Should you get a heart attack because of tran-fat, this would only require limited stay in hospital since you would soon die. Thus the government is saving money all around and manufacturers don't have to waste time telling you that the vegetable oil used in the "product" is grease monkey. Condolences to your family... To some extend, this should be the labelling in truth: 

This processed industrial food "product" contains TRANS FATS: OUR (in)SINCERE CONDOLENCES. 

 

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