The crisis is now official. Obesity is the leading cause of preventable death in Australia, overtaking smoking. The new findings published this month in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health have escalated the seriousness of obesity in this country.

The study from Western Australia revealed that more than 60 percent of adults and one in four children are overweight or obese. These results are expected to reflect the population across the nation.

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