Lets keep it positive.
The Hear Foundation, has issued a report, says the journalists
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-04/five-queensland-regions-the-fattest-in-the-nation/6441968?WT.ac=statenews_qld
The CPI, Couch Potato Index, and fattest, least healthy geographical area in Australia is... and an ill defined region is nominated for this dubious award. This is as scientific as the research that shows how likely you are to develop breast cancer, depending on the suburb you live in. This seems to imply causation. Easily the answer is to move.
Sad journalism for maximum impact. Poor research for shaming people.
Surely if you want to do something about the cardiac, diabetes, overweight problems of the country, you reinforce the positives. What is the best way to be healthy? How can you incorporate exercise and healthy food into your regimes. Lets have some good stories and role models, not underweight obsessional people verging on an eating disorder telling us how good they are.
The results of the Norm advertisements twenty odd years ago show how the negative press backfires, Norm was a couch potato and became a national hero.
The research tells us that our body shape, size, colour, function is genetically pre-ordained. Research also tells us that the abundance of food is to blame, just as the lack of food is to blame in other countries for lack of nutrition.
The lack of exercise is not a blameworthy issue. It is a function of society. While some people are obsessed, they run the risk of sudden death, hit by a car, mugged or raped, where are these statistics to balance the whole story?
I challenge the huge politically motivated discussion about health and diet, exercise, food and social factors to provide evidence, a balanced approach and to be respectful of people.
The Hear Foundation, has issued a report, says the journalists
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-04/five-queensland-regions-the-fattest-in-the-nation/6441968?WT.ac=statenews_qld
The CPI, Couch Potato Index, and fattest, least healthy geographical area in Australia is... and an ill defined region is nominated for this dubious award. This is as scientific as the research that shows how likely you are to develop breast cancer, depending on the suburb you live in. This seems to imply causation. Easily the answer is to move.
Sad journalism for maximum impact. Poor research for shaming people.
Surely if you want to do something about the cardiac, diabetes, overweight problems of the country, you reinforce the positives. What is the best way to be healthy? How can you incorporate exercise and healthy food into your regimes. Lets have some good stories and role models, not underweight obsessional people verging on an eating disorder telling us how good they are.
The results of the Norm advertisements twenty odd years ago show how the negative press backfires, Norm was a couch potato and became a national hero.
The research tells us that our body shape, size, colour, function is genetically pre-ordained. Research also tells us that the abundance of food is to blame, just as the lack of food is to blame in other countries for lack of nutrition.
The lack of exercise is not a blameworthy issue. It is a function of society. While some people are obsessed, they run the risk of sudden death, hit by a car, mugged or raped, where are these statistics to balance the whole story?
I challenge the huge politically motivated discussion about health and diet, exercise, food and social factors to provide evidence, a balanced approach and to be respectful of people.
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