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Australians in denial about obesity
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2ae8297d-a12f-402a-9ff2-c3d9cd12a831/D862CA45-EE7A-46DF-9EAF-1E59439705B4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage" href="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smh.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage"><P>Australia is losing the battle of the bulge. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage"><P>Fresh data shows 62 per cent of people are now overweight or obese, a marked increase from past surveys. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage"><P>Men and older people are the fattest of all and about a quarter of children are overweight or obese. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.smh.com.au/img/9FADE6A0-4449-4E45-BD54-CF85A60D4F71" alt="Reality check ... Australians are bigger than they think." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage"><P>Reality check ... Australians are bigger than they think. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage"><P>But Australians are in denial about their growing waistlines - the statisticians found people consistently claimed to be slimmer than they actually were. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage"><P>The damning data was collected by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which measured the height, weight, hips and waists of 22,000 people for the 2007-08 National Health Survey. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage"><P>People may be packing on the kilos but there's good news on cigarettes - we're smoking less. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage"><P>One in five adults smoke less than in previous surveys. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage"><P>The number of people who drink alcohol to a risky level has plateaued, albeit at a higher level than a decade ago. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbeing/australians-in-denial-about-obesity-20090511-b06e.html?page=fullpage"><P>Young men and middle-aged women are the groups most likely to booze. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D862CA45-EE7A-46DF-9EAF-1E59439705B4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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