healthy-thought

Bike Riders

Health promotion is a powerful and cost effective way to maintain a healthier community. It enables people to increase control over and improve their health.

Healthy eating

Healthy eating is a key building block to good health. It is about more than nutritious foods. It is also about the cultural and social significance of growing, cooking and sharing food.

  • Almost 60,000 Australians in low-income working families go without meals or are food insecure.
  • People who are unemployed were twice as likely to be food insecure.
  • The risk of obesity is 20–40% higher in women who have low incomes and are experiencing food insecurity.
  • Anybody can have times in their life when they become vulnerable to being food insecure.

 

Obesity and overweight

Approximately 3.3 million Australians are obese with another 5.6 million overweight. In Australia between 1980 and 1999–2000 the proportion of men aged between 25 and 64 years who were obese rose from 9% to 17%. Obesity and overweight pose a m...