Comments on: Tackling Obesity http://www.katelundy.com.au/2003/09/02/tackling-obesity/ Taking Australia forward with openness and vision Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:32:18 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kate Lundy http://www.katelundy.com.au/2003/09/02/tackling-obesity/#comment-5468 Kate Lundy Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:37:21 +0000 http://www.katelundy.com.au/?p=1546#comment-5468 Ben Start with the Australian Health Promotion Association. Their publications source the most recent research and I really respect their work. http://www.healthpromotion.org.au/index.html Ben
Start with the Australian Health Promotion Association. Their publications source the most recent research and I really respect their work.
http://www.healthpromotion.org.au/index.html

]]> By: Ben Hunter http://www.katelundy.com.au/2003/09/02/tackling-obesity/#comment-5347 Ben Hunter Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:44:32 +0000 http://www.katelundy.com.au/?p=1546#comment-5347 Hi Kate, Im studying Social Sciences and I'm currently writing an essay for Contemporary Society. My essay focuses on the affect of media on obesity and overweight rates amongst Australian adults. I am having trouble finding the most recent statistics (in percentage values) on obesity and/or overweight Australians and I was wondering if you could please guide me towards some relevant websites or provide me with some links to these types of statistics. Alternatively if you have these details at your finger tips would you mind passing them on to me please. I realise by focusing on adults opposed to children I limit the essay and the end product but this is my first real essay and I don't want to bite off more then I can swallow so early in the piece. Thank you, Ben Hi Kate,

Im studying Social Sciences and I’m currently writing an essay for Contemporary Society. My essay focuses on the affect of media on obesity and overweight rates amongst Australian adults.

I am having trouble finding the most recent statistics (in percentage values) on obesity and/or overweight Australians and I was wondering if you could please guide me towards some relevant websites or provide me with some links to these types of statistics. Alternatively if you have these details at your finger tips would you mind passing them on to me please.

I realise by focusing on adults opposed to children I limit the essay and the end product but this is my first real essay and I don’t want to bite off more then I can swallow so early in the piece.

Thank you,

Ben

]]> By: Kate Lundy http://www.katelundy.com.au/2003/09/02/tackling-obesity/#comment-4240 Kate Lundy Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:48:42 +0000 http://www.katelundy.com.au/?p=1546#comment-4240 Hi Jodie The international taskforce on obesity website has some good papers, including one specifically on the links. http://www.iotf.org/childhoodobesity.asp Good luck with your assignment. Hi Jodie
The international taskforce on obesity website has some good papers, including one specifically on the links.
http://www.iotf.org/childhoodobesity.asp Good luck with your assignment.

]]> By: Jodie http://www.katelundy.com.au/2003/09/02/tackling-obesity/#comment-4136 Jodie Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:05:44 +0000 http://www.katelundy.com.au/?p=1546#comment-4136 I am doing an essay on childhood obesity for uni. Just wondering if you could help me find the relationship between being overweight as a child leading to obesity in adulthood. Thanks. I am doing an essay on childhood obesity for uni.
Just wondering if you could help me find the relationship between being overweight as a child leading to obesity in adulthood.

Thanks.

]]> By: Mantist http://www.katelundy.com.au/2003/09/02/tackling-obesity/#comment-3495 Mantist Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:52:59 +0000 http://www.katelundy.com.au/?p=1546#comment-3495 Hey Kate, I got one more question. Could you explain to me, how you think systems, policy, structures, legislation or social value and attitudes add to obesity problems? And what sort of change do you suggest to the system that may be implemented to improve the issue of concern? Hey Kate,

I got one more question.

Could you explain to me, how you think systems, policy, structures, legislation or social value and attitudes add to obesity problems? And what sort of change do you suggest to the system that may be implemented to improve the issue of concern?

]]> By: Kate Lundy http://www.katelundy.com.au/2003/09/02/tackling-obesity/#comment-2971 Kate Lundy Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:51:37 +0000 http://www.katelundy.com.au/?p=1546#comment-2971 A song sounds interesting! Here is a link to the cancer Council report: Food marketing to Children in Australia that may be useful. http://www.cancer.org.au/policy/Publications/FoodmarketingtochildreninAustralia.htm. It references pretty much all of the sources of info about the issue of childhood obesity. A song sounds interesting! Here is a link to the cancer Council report: Food marketing to Children in Australia that may be useful. http://www.cancer.org.au/policy/Publications/FoodmarketingtochildreninAustralia.htm. It references pretty much all of the sources of info about the issue of childhood obesity.

]]> By: Mantist http://www.katelundy.com.au/2003/09/02/tackling-obesity/#comment-2966 Mantist Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:19:59 +0000 http://www.katelundy.com.au/?p=1546#comment-2966 Hello Kate, I'm tryna write a whole song puting my view on obese issue. I'm also tryna write a report on the topic. My question is, how many agencies or organisations are there, nation-wide advocating or where obese people could go to get infor and help? That mean, government and non-government organisations. Cheer Hello Kate,

I’m tryna write a whole song puting my view on obese issue. I’m also tryna write a report on the topic. My question is, how many agencies or organisations are there, nation-wide advocating or where obese people could go to get infor and help? That mean, government and non-government organisations. Cheer

]]> By: Kate Lundy http://www.katelundy.com.au/2003/09/02/tackling-obesity/#comment-1835 Kate Lundy Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:04:31 +0000 http://www.katelundy.com.au/?p=1546#comment-1835 I haven't gone back to my original sources, but I think the basic explanation of the disparity relates to my reference to children classified as 'obese', from that earlier decade, as distinct to your reference which is 'obese' and 'overwieght' percentage increases since that time, which is of course a larger percentage. I suspect that if I had included the both 'obese and overweight', the higher percentage would have corresponded more closely with the percentage growth identified by Booth. I can't recall, but it may have been the absence of accurate comparative data between '85 and '95 that led me to make the observations in the way that I did. I haven’t gone back to my original sources, but I think the basic explanation of the disparity relates to my reference to children classified as ‘obese’, from that earlier decade, as distinct to your reference which is ‘obese’ and ‘overwieght’ percentage increases since that time, which is of course a larger percentage. I suspect that if I had included the both ‘obese and overweight’, the higher percentage would have corresponded more closely with the percentage growth identified by Booth. I can’t recall, but it may have been the absence of accurate comparative data between ‘85 and ‘95 that led me to make the observations in the way that I did.

]]> By: Isabelle http://www.katelundy.com.au/2003/09/02/tackling-obesity/#comment-747 Isabelle Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:30:11 +0000 http://www.katelundy.com.au/?p=1546#comment-747 Can you give me a reference for this? "To give a clearer indication of the trend, comparative figures between the 1985 Australian Health and Fitness Survey and the 1995 National Nutrition Survey show that during this time the level of obesity in Australian children aged 7-15 years tripled from 1.7% to 5.1 Data analysis of three recent cross-sectional surveys by Dr Michael Booth from the Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children indicates that approximately 25% of Australian children and adolescents are currently overweight or obese. A 20% increase since 1996." Thanks. Can you give me a reference for this?

“To give a clearer indication of the trend, comparative figures between the 1985 Australian Health and Fitness Survey and the 1995 National Nutrition Survey show that during this time the level of obesity in Australian children aged 7-15 years tripled from 1.7% to 5.1

Data analysis of three recent cross-sectional surveys by Dr Michael Booth from the Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children indicates that approximately 25% of Australian children and adolescents are currently overweight or obese. A 20% increase since 1996.”

Thanks.

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