Fraser Coast Chronicle

Busy lifestyles blamed for rising obesity on Fraser Coast

FRASER Coast adults are paying a price for their busy lifestyles as new figures show two in three Australians are now...

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31st Oct. 2012 4:10 AM

Nutritionist Melanie Williams gives some simple tips on living a healthy lifestyle. Photo: Valerie Horton / Fraser Coast Chronicle

OBESITY CRISIS: More than half of us are fat on Fraser Coast

The scales are tipping in the wrong direction on the Fraser Coast

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11th Oct. 2019 12:10 AM

DISADVANTAGED: Communities with the highest rates of obesity also have much higher rates of smoking, inactivity and chronic illness and are largely low-socioeconomic communities

Fraser Coast low on fast-food and yet we’re overweight

TWO-thirds of Fraser Coast adults are overweight yet the region is low on the scale when it comes to the number of...

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02nd Dec. 2013 5:12 AM

People need to make healthy choices, easy meal choices.

Many are fat despite area having low proportion of fast food

ALTHOUGH about 65% of the Fraser Coast’s population is overweight or obese, we are not a fast food capital.

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09th Dec. 2014 11:12 AM

New research shows the Fraser Coast has one of the lowest ratios of fast food restaurants per person in Queensland.

A quarter of us are obese

AUSTRALIANS live longer and drink more, but are less active than other similar countries around the world.

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26th June 2012 4:06 PM

Clive must start chipping away at his weight

SUNSHINE Coast's "Mr Body Language" says voters could be turned off electing Clive Palmer as prime minister because he is...

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03rd Aug. 2013 6:08 AM

WEIGHTY WARNING: Allan Pease says Clive Palmer should show his self-control.

Medicos train with 260kg dummies for obese

QUEENSLAND medicos are training with the world’s largest “bariatric dummies” weighing up to 260kg to ensure they can handle...

Obese miner wins appeal

A MORBIDLY obese miner, deemed unfit to operate heavy machinery, has won his job back after successfully appealing the...

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06th Oct. 2012 6:10 AM

Most obese Aussie suburbs named

Health researchers have crunched the numbers and found the suburbs weighing in with the highest rates of obesity across the...

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10th Oct. 2019 8:10 PM

Waistlines have been analysed across the country. How did you measure up? Picture: iStock

‘Fat people should fly business class’

Obese people should consider other flyers and pay for a seat with more room on international flights if their fat rolls are...

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21st Sept. 2019 12:09 PM

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