Find your 30 Increased weight is caused by increased energy intake ( from food and drink ), decreased physical activity or a combination of both. As well as increasing their energy intake, people are also spending more time doing activities that involve little movement such as watching television, playing computer games and traveling in cars. People are also spending less time playing organised sport and doing other physical activities such as walking or cycling to school.
Around 20-25 per cent of Australian children do not do enough physical activity to benefit their health. In 2000, 56 per cent of Queensland children participated in organised sport, which was lower than the national average of 59 per cent. More than half of adult Queenslanders ( 52 per cent ) are not doing enough physical activity to achieve a health benefit levels of inactivity in Queensland are about 15 per cent higher than national levels. Activity levels have increased in recent years but are still lower than in 1997.
Heart disease,
stroke,
type 2 diabetes and
cancer are major health problems in Queensland and Australia. These largely preventable diseases, all of which have a strong nutrition component, contributed to about half of the burden of disability and premature death in Australia in 2003.
Physical inactivity contributes to around 6400 deaths each year due to coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes and colon cancer, and an additional 2200 more deaths due to other conditions such as stroke. It has also been estimated that the burden of disease due to physical inactivity
corresponds to around 36 deaths per day or 1.5 per hour.
The above information thankfully comes from the your30.gld.gov.au at the following
link.
