OBESITY

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Facts…. NZ

• Make notes !!!!

• http://www.moh.govt.nz/obesity

Fact 1

• The World Health Organization now describes the prevalence of obesity as an epidemic. There's been a rise in obesity in New Zealand in recent decades - from 9% (males) and 11% (females) in 1977 to 20% and 22% respectively in 2003.

Fact 2

• The 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey found that:

• one in three adults were overweight (36.3%) and one in four obese (26.5%).

• one in five children aged 2 to 14 years were overweight (20.9%) and one in twelve was obese (8.3%).

Fact 3 adults

• The 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey found that:

• One in four adults were obese (26.5%)

• 41.7% of Māori adults were obese • 63.7% of Pacific adults were obese• 11% of Asian adults were obese

…• Pacific men and women were two and a half

times more likely to be obese than men and women in the total population.

• Māori men and women were one and a half times more likely to be obese than men and women in the total population.

• There has been an increase in the prevalence of obesity for men and women from 1997 to 2006/07, adjusted for age, but the rate of increase appears to be slowing.

Fact - children

• The 2006/07 New Zealand Health Survey found that:

• One in twelve children (aged 2 to 14 years) were obese (8.3%).

• One in five children were overweight (20.9%).

…• There has been no change in the average

(mean) BMI for children aged 5-14 years since 2002.

• There has been a decrease in average BMI for Māori children. (but press????????)

• Adjusted for age, Pacific boys and girls were at least 2.5 times more likely to be obese than boys and girls in the total population.

• Māori boys and girls were 1.5 times more likely to be obese than boys and girls in the total population.