�Australian Medical Association President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, aforementioned that findings in a new report show the obesity epidemic is costing the nation $58 billion a year and confirms that many Australians are suffering significant health problems due to obesity.
"This reflects the dollar price to Australians and the human cost to individuals," she aforesaid.
Dr Capolingua said the Access Economics report, which was commissioned by Diabetes Australia, reinforces the need for a 'whole-of-society' approaching to preventing obesity.
"Governments, the intellectual nourishment industry, the health and education sectors, and individuals need to take province for Australia's bulging waistline," she aforementioned.
"The factors that add to fleshiness are complex and various. There ar no 'quick fix' solutions, and the key to success will be in a many-sided approach."
Dr Capolingua aforementioned doctors play an important role in health advice, monitoring and assessing disease risk, bar and assisting and managing the individual's particular fortune in paying attention to fleshiness.
"It is vital that individuals are not stigmatized but that they are supported and afforded the dignity of what for some, throne be a very difficult issue.
"Doctors play a vital role in early intervention, simply help for our overweight community must be backed up with government intervention. Public health programs, changes to intellectual nourishment marketing and advertising, food for thought labelling and taxation measures, along with urban planning regulations to make leisure time options more than accessible for ordinary people are all vitally of import." she aforementioned.
The Access Economic composition found that 3.71 million Australians, or 17.5 per cent of the population, were obese. We know that organism that overweight predisposes people to type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, heart disease, many forms of cancer, and premature death.
Dr Capolingua said she was pleased that Federal Health Minister, Nicola Roxon, was considering the estimate of national targets to reduce the proportion of Australian children at an unhealthy soundbox weight - proposing a five per cent diminution within 10 years.
"Targets are authoritative in order to measure success, and we need the governance action underpinning these goals in ordering to achieve or better those targets," she aforesaid.
The AMA Position Statement on Obesity can be found here.
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