SYDNEY - FOR a nation that prides itself on sporting achievement and muscular good looks, Australia must surely be shocked that it now has a higher proportion of obese people than the United States.Forget those pictures of muscular surfers and slim supermodels such as Elle Macpherson.
Today's typical Australian is more likely to be a middle-aged bloke with a big beer belly and a super-sized wife to boot.
According to an alarming study entitled Australia's Future Fat Bomb, nine million adults in the country are now rated as overweight.
And four million of them have been officially declared obese.
That is 26 per cent of the adult population, one per cent more than the Americans.
As the author of the study pointed out, Australia would clearly win a gold medal if there was a 'most-fat' event in the Olympics.
roger@aimsmedia.com
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