Steady Rates Of Obesity Not Good Enough - Australian Medical Association

The sieve is complaining about the water leaking out and how it will solve the problem.

"Today's news that the rate of childhood obesity in Australia has not increased in the last decade must not detract from the urgent need to reduce childhood obesity.

Research results released today by the University of South Australia found that obesity rates among children levelled off in the late 1990s and have remained steady since.

AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said this was good news but not the answer to the overall problem."

So what is the answer?

"The AMA's submission to the National Preventative Health Taskforce urged the Government to support the important work doctors do in helping parents and children reduce the risks of childhood obesity and to provide a healthy home environment for kids to grow up in.

Dr Capolingua said doctors had the perfect opportunity to discuss preventative health measures with families and provide advice on how best to manage overweight or obesity."

"Important work doctors do."

Right.

Have the same people who failed in doing their "important work" before and since the 1990s provide care and advice on how to "reduce the risks of childhood obesity."

What gall.

You'd have to be a blind idiot to listen to these people who have decades of failure as their record.

Sad thing is, there are enough blind idiots in positions of political power that they will probably listen to these failures.