The BIG challenges we face

are complex & intertwined,

linking globaland humanhealth.

We are an island of such great complexityWhich one do we

focusfocus on?

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We are an island of such great complexityWhich one do we

focusfocus on?

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We are an island of such great complexity

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We are an island of such great complexity

is an

epidemic

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We are an island of such great complexity

is an

emergency!

and the good news ...

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We are an island of such great complexity

is

preventable

Our story begins with a video ...

about how something so small

has such a

BIGBIG impact

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decompressorare needed to see this picture.

Sugar filled drinks are not even the tip of the iceberg

obesity

epidemic

The numbers and scale are too

BIG to imagine

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The next 5 slides may help ...

This photos depicts ...

the two million2,000,000

Houston, we have a problem!

>

waste

and a critical problem!

>

human health

Did you know ?

Obesity is contagious!

The life expectancy of our children will be less than us!

Changes are happening when we look at individual groups ...

A 5 year old in 1965 ...

[insert picture/graphic]

A 5 year old today ...

[insert picture/graphic]

Increases in weight are happening across a

lifecourse ...

the groups are continuing to get even heavier!

Av weight gain from 1900 to 1950 = 1kg

Av weight gain from 1980 to 1990 = 3 to 4kg

That’s like going from this ... to this ...

[use some sort of visual scale]

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2010 vol. 34 no. 2

In WA, obesity is now #1

Obesity has overtaken smoking as #1 on the list of

disability/disease factors that reduce years of life lived

[use some sort of visual for numbers and smoking/obesity]

Look at the climb in obesity rates in Australian adults since!

[insert memorable event from 89/90]

Recreate bar chart into a series of slides that build using images and numbers

Overweight/ obese adults, Australia, by year

ABS National Health Survey 2007-2008 and previous

www.co-ops.net.au

Overweight/ obesity and rapid change

ADULTS• 7.4 million (>50%) adults overweight or obese 2004/05– 62% men ow/o– 45% women ow/o

• increase in mean weight of 4kg (men) and 3 kg (women) 1994 – 2004/05

CHILDREN• In 2007 17% of children were classified as overweight and 6%

were obese.Australian Bureau of Statistics. 2007. Australian Social Trends 2007 – Overweight and obesity, ABS 2007.Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2004. Risk Factors Data Briefing Number 2 – AIHW 2004 .Department of Health and Ageing. 2008. 2007 Australian National Children’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey. Commonwealth of Australia: Canberra.

www.co-ops.net.au

Effects of BMI and Smoking Status on Survival among Men between the Ages of 35 and 100 Years.

• Morbid obesity and cigarette smoking each shorten life expectancy by approximately 10 years

• Moderate obesity shortens it by approximately 3 years.

• Panel A shows the results of the analysis from the Prospective Studies Collaboration of body-mass index (BMI) among men; the effects among women are not greater.1

Peto R, Whitlock G, Jha P. Effects of obesity and smoking on U.S. life expectancy. N Engl J Med. 2010 Mar 4;362(9):855-6; author reply 856-7.

So what does this all mean?

[economically ... suffering & death ... environmentally

Even in countries like China where it is not a problem ...

yet?

This is a global problem!

So how do we stop it?

What’s the solution?

Good News

Bad News

We need a systems approach

[which means ... brief description of the individual through to whole-of-pop. appraoch]

so that we can turn this .... [graphic of what a life is projected to look like]

to this ... [graphic with better outcome]