[Sir_CnC]

I just completed this term of school and for our HPE assignment, we had to research and write an essay with an estimate of how Australia will be by 2025, health wise. Whilst doing this I found out some pretty interesting info, and for me it's kind of sad if this all was true.

Smoking
I'll start with a positive one, smoking, believe it or not, over the past years, smoking has been decreasing and not increasing at all. This refers to cigarettes, pipes, cigars, anything that you can smoke tobacco out of, this does not include drug use. Males aged 14 years and up were more likely to be daily smokers than females, with males being at 18% and females at 15%. From 1980 to 2007, smoking had declided 15% over the 27 years, from 34% of Australia, to 19%. By around 2025, there should only be around 10% of Australia still smoking daily, this is actually a really good thing as smoking can be addictive to people and cannot get over it, which leads to a bad future for when you're older and all your blood vessels become damages and keep in mind, they cannot recover back over time.

Poor Diet
Poor diets, probably something that is happening all over the world more often, but why? Cause most unhealthy foods are a lot cheaper than healthy foods. When you go off to McDonalds, they sell salads, now compare that to a burger and you'll realise it's cheaper to get a fatty burger than a salad. About 10% of accounted CVD (Cardiovascular Disease) incidents ahve been from poor dietary with 2% of them being males and 3% of them females.

Obesity
This was obviously going to be in here if you know about Health. For the people who don't know, Overweight and Obesity are two different things. To be classified as overweight, you need a BMI (Body Mass Index, will explain later) of 25 or more and to be considered Obese, you need a BMI of 30 or more. Obesity happens when people consume a big amount of energy and not burning off all that energy, which leaves it all inside your body and then turns into fat. To calculate a persons BMI, you need to divide the persons weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters, leaving you with your BMI. In 1989, 47% of people were in the overweight and obese catergories, and by 2008, it reached up to 62% of our population! If this trend continues to rise at this rate, by 2025, 72% of Australians will be considered Overweight or Obese.

Inactivity
This plays a big part of CVD, being inactive really can get you to get CVD in your future, it plays a part in Overweight and Poor diets as well. Inactivity results from people not doing enough physical activity in their everyday activities. People who do not participate in regular physical activity are almost twice as likely to die from CVD as to those who participate in regular physical activity. Without physical activity, if you're eating a lot and you're gaining energy, without physical activity you have no way of burning that energy away, and turning it into fat. In 1995, 69% of people who were surveyed were in the low or sedentary group of activity, and in 2004-05 this had increased to just over 70% and by 2007-08 it reached 72%, so if the trend keeps going up like this, at least 80% of Australians will be inactive.

I'm pretty much posting this as I found this quite interesting and scary to see how if this would be all true, imagine the future and how lazy everyone would be...

Thank you to whoever reads through it all.

[Vitani]

On the obesity thing, at least we don't have a restaurant called the 'Heart-attack Grill'

[Sir_CnC]

On the obesity thing, at least we don't have a restaurant called the 'Heart-attack Grill'

By at least are you saying there is one? o.o

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