�Australian Medical Association President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, aforementioned that findings in a new news report show the obesity epidemic is costing the state $58 gazillion a twelvemonth and confirms that many Australians ar suffering pregnant health problems due to obesity.
"This reflects the dollar cost to Australians and the human cost to individuals," she aforesaid.
Dr Capolingua said the Access Economics report, which was licensed by Diabetes Australia, reinforces the want for a 'whole-of-society' attack to preventing obesity.
"Governments, the food industry, the health and education sectors, and individuals need to take responsibility for Australia's bulging waist," she said.
"The factors that put up to obesity are complex and divers. There ar no 'quick fix' solutions, and the key to success will be in a multifarious approach."
Dr Capolingua aforementioned doctors play an important role in health advice, monitoring and assessing disease risk, prevention and assisting and managing the individual's particular portion in respect to corpulency.
"It is vital that individuals ar not stigmatized but that they are supported and afforded the dignity of what for some, arse be a very hard issue.
"Doctors play a vital character in early intervention, just help for our overweight community must be backed up with government intervention. Public wellness programs, changes to food marketing and advertising, food labelling and taxation measures, along with urban planning regulations to make leisure options more accessible for ordinary people are all vitally important." she aforesaid.
The Access Economic reputation found that 3.71 million Australians, or 17.5 per cent of the population, were corpulent. We cognize that organism that overweight predisposes people to type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, spunk disease, many forms of cancer, and premature end.
Dr Capolingua said she was pleased that Federal Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, was considering the musical theme of national targets to reduce the proportion of Australian children at an unhealthy organic structure weight - proposing a five per cent reducing within 10 years.
"Targets are important in order to meter success, and we pauperization the government action underpinning these goals in order to accomplish or better those targets," she aforesaid.
The AMA Position Statement on Obesity can be found here.
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