More than one in four Aussie kids are overweight or obese: we’re failing them, and we need a plan

Obesity among kids in Australia needs to be treated as a serious health problem. From shutterstock.comAlessandro Demaio addressed the National Press Club today, alongside Karen Carey (former chair of the Consumers Health Forum) and Stephen Duckett (head of the Health Program at the Grattan Institute), to outline the key health issues ahead of the 2019 federal election. This is an edited transcript of Alessandro Demaio’s speech. The year is 1980, and a small number of vulnerable Australian children begin to show early signs of a quiet but dangerous disease. Affecting their kidneys, their hearts and even their brains, this disease has known causes – and solutions. But little or nothing is done and it doesn’t even make the headlines. Jump forward to 1995, the disease is spreading. From just

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