{"id":191,"date":"2008-07-06T05:40:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T03:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/is-australia-is-the-fattest-nation-on-earth\/"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:06:08","slug":"is-australia-is-the-fattest-nation-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/is-australia-is-the-fattest-nation-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Australia is the Fattest Nation on Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well,\u00a0it is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2008\/06\/20\/Australia-now-fattest-country-study-says\/UPI-23231213998709\/\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the news reports<\/a> concerning \u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bakeridi.edu.au\" rel=\"noopener\">a\u00a0summary issued by the Baker Heart Research Institute<\/a> in Melbourne, Australia.\u00a0 Among the report&#8217;s key findings:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8216;fat bomb&#8217; is loudly ticking in Australia with around 7 out of 10 middle-aged men and 6 out of 10 middle-aged women being overweight or obese.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, around 1.5 million middle-aged Australians are currently obese and therefore at high risk of a CV event in the longer-term.<\/li>\n<li>Based on the best available evidence, our expanded middle-aged waistlines will result in an extra 700,000 CV-related admissions in the next 20 years.<\/li>\n<li>These highly preventable admissions will conservatively cost (in today\u2019s terms) an extra $6 billion ($2.9 billion in hospital costs alone) in health care.<\/li>\n<li>An estimated 123,000 men and women will die (many prematurely) from CVD over the next 20 years as a result of their excess weight.<\/li>\n<li>A simple strategy such as losing 5 kg in 5 months has the potential to result in 27% to 34% fewer CV-related hospital admissions and deaths over the next 20 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, even if the Aussies are Number One, the US can&#8217;t be too far behind&#8230;according to the most recent estimate (the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/hestats.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey<\/a>), 66.3 adults over the age of 20 are overweight or obese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well,\u00a0it is according to the news reports concerning \u00a0a\u00a0summary issued by the Baker Heart Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia.\u00a0 Among the report&#8217;s key findings: The &#8216;fat bomb&#8217; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,28],"tags":[175,185,808,1208,1236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8060,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/8060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}