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Fast food blamed for fat Australian children.

Posted by: Tom ( UK ) on June 05, 1996 at 17:57:25:

Fast food blamed for fat Australians
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Ten per cent of Australian children are so overweight they need medical supervision, nutritionists told a Sydney
conference yesterday.

Fast food and lack of physical activity were blamed for doubling the proportion of overweight children aged nine to
15 in the country since 1985. A lecturer, Philip Harvey, said one in 10 needed to see a doctor about their weight.

AFP, Sydney

From Electronic Telegraph 31/5/96



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