Overweight and Obesity in Australia in 2023 and future projections.

[Gralin]

I’m not THAT hard mate.

 

[Cuzz09]

I used to go on the treadmill during games.

I'd walk til the first goal then run til the next one and do that for the whole game but then I did it for a game where there was no goal for nearly a half and my legs fell off

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[DickieKnee]

Some carnivore diets work wonders, look at mekala peterson and why she went carnivore.

For some its not good

We are all different
Eg. I dont listen to the scientologist dr berg.

Just dont eat processed garbage, we can surely all agree on that

My brother had bowel cancer a couple of years ago. Operated on and all good now. His surgeon told him only to eat anything without an ingredients label (I e. fresh food). Bowel cancer is in the rise and many think it's due to processed foods.

 

[phantom13]

My brother had bowel cancer a couple of years ago. Operated on and all good now. His surgeon told him only to eat anything without an ingredients label (I e. fresh food). Bowel cancer is in the rise and many think it's due to processed foods.

Unless you’re catching and killing your own meat I wouldn’t back too much of it to be all that healthy for you

 

[errant bounce]

On a treadmill? The sweat drips down your elbows so you can pick a phone up just fine. I'm from the era where you had to push a button multiple times to get the letter you wanted on your Nokia 3315 and became proficient in typing one handed without looking at the screen because of it.

Texting AFL listed footballers no doubt.

Is there anything you're not good at?

 

[Andre]

No, people rationalise their choices by saying to themselves that it’s “just this once”, “I don’t do it often”, “I have a big build”, “I take after Dad”, etc.

Some genuinely don’t equate their habits with their health or appearance.

Making sacrifices, even small changes, takes too much effort and makes them feel deprived and miserable. Then, being unhealthy and unfit makes them miserable.

One day there’s a lightbulb moment.

Outside the prevalence of processed foods now and moves away from manual labour jobs, the two key things that keep rates high (and going higher) are:
1) People get unhealthy over years, then frustrated they can't undo it in a few weeks and chuck it in
2) People overestimate how many calories exercise burn. They think it's either a shortcut and/or a way to eat more. Exercise is great, everyone should be doing it, but it only tinkers at the edges for weight loss.

 

[Taylor]

Texting AFL listed footballers no doubt.

Is there anything you're not good at?

Staying pregnant :/

 

[demondavey]

A multitude of reasons for this.

1. People have less time for exercise
2. Accessibility to food is far too easy; you can have Uber eats delivered to you in 10 minutes
3. Good food costs more money and with a cost of living crisis in place it exacerbates matters
4. Portion sizes are becoming more American.
5. People don’t understand calories. They don’t understand what contains what and how to moderate them
6. People feel they need to eat because it’s there
7. Saturated fats and sugar are far more prolific
8. Marketing, branding and TV exposure is promoting junk food far more excessively than ever
9. Bad food sells
10. People do not know how to exercise because the fitness industry has been saturated by quick fix fads that promise instant change and in todays society quick and easy fixes are the answer

3 years ago I dropped 12kg by using a calorie counting app. I’d slowly let it creep on over about 5 years. I did nothing radical. I simply minimised my calories and maintained my exercise. Lost it and kept it off. I exercise frequently, lift weights and eat properly. I also don’t drink.

Today for example I had breakfast, muesli, Greek yoghurt and fruit. Two coffees. We just had an impromptu pizza order for the kids and my Mrs grabbed one for us. I had 3 slices (proper quality pizza mind you, not dominos rubbish) So tonight I’ll simply have green salad. Lettuce. Onion, cucumber and tomato. No dressing.

These things are hard to work out, but society has made it hard due to $$$.

 

[demondavey]

When you're young (say, under 50) there's a lot you can get away with as far as eating and drinking are concerned. Very very gradually things change, no matter what you do or think. After 50 your body is not your friend unless you give it what it needs, rather than what your brain wants. Your brain isn't your friend either

Under 50? There’s a lot less you can get away with

 

[Taylor]

People have less time for exercise

Are Australians working more hours or sleeping more hours on average these days?

This graph from the ABS would show that
work isn't taking up time.


I can certainly understand people not having time for exercise when it's prioritised behind things like TV and other screen consumption.

 

[demondavey]

Are Australians working more hours or sleeping more hours on average these days?

This graph from the ABS would show that
work isn't taking up time.
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I can certainly understand people not having time for exercise when it's prioritised behind things like TV and other screen consumption.

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It was a general comment, but people do spend a bit of time in cars and with two full time working parents it’s definitely harder. I simply am sick of excuses from people irrespective of whatever they fall back on. It’s all diet anyway.

 

[Taylor]

I cop heat here for talking about using exercise equipment watching TV, but it's the cheapest and easiest way to regularly and consistently find your time to turn the legs over.

If you're looking to get into that cheap, grab a box set of Stargate SG1, any of Next Gen, Voyager or Deep Space Nine, and watch for the exercise bikes landing on the verge collections around the end of the month/Feb.

Then one episode per day, five days a week to wind down from work, crusing speed on the bike.

 

[demondavey]

I cop heat here for talking about using exercise equipment watching TV, but it's the cheapest and easiest way to regularly and consistently find your time to turn the legs over.

If you're looking to get into that cheap, grab a box set of Stargate SG1, any of Next Gen, Voyager or Deep Space Nine, and watch for the exercise bikes landing on the verge collections around the end of the month/Feb.

Then one episode per day, five days a week to wind down from work, crusing speed on the bike.

It’s definitely something I’d not do however I rate it as a great way to exercise. Whatever works really. So it’s a thumbs up from me.

 

[Ivelisse]

South Australia bans junk food ads on public transport to combat obesity crisis

Starting July 2025, South Australia will ban junk food advertising on public transport in a pioneering move to tackle the state's escalating obesity rates and improve public health.

glamadelaide.com.au

 

[Andre]

South Australia bans junk food ads on public transport to combat obesity crisis

Starting July 2025, South Australia will ban junk food advertising on public transport in a pioneering move to tackle the state's escalating obesity rates and improve public health.

glamadelaide.com.au

"In a decisive move to combat rising obesity rates,"
Hyperbole aside, a good move. Time poor parents give in to pester power, from kids seeing junk food they 'must have'.