Australian obesity rates climb

AAP

AAP

A new study has revealed obesity rates in Australia are climbing faster than anywhere else in the world. The results, published in the medical journal The Lancet, show almost a quarter of the country's children and 63 per cent of the adult population is now overweight.



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