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Forget fit, tanned and sporty-the new generation of Australians is fast becoming fat, pale and lazy. A love of junk food, television and computer games has sent the country' s waistline ballooning, with Australians weighing in as the world' s fattest nation after the United States.(1)____ Rather than hitting the beaches, thousands of young Australians are heading to the couch with a bag of popcorn, with one child in every four classifying as overweight or obese.(2)____(3)____ The trend is squashing the widely-held imagery of Australians being sun-bronzed and super fit.(4)____ " The rate of obesity, particularly among children, seems to be going up faster in Australia than anywhere else in the world, and we don't know why," said Dr Peter Williams, the president of the Dietitians Association of Australia.(5)____(6)____
A sedentary lifestyle and a changing diet has doubled the number of obese Australians and treble the army of fat children in the past decade, pushing direct health costs related to childhood obesity to about $380 million a year.(7)____ Data shows childhood obesity in Australia is rising at the rate of one percent a year, a trend suggests half of all young Australians will be overweight by 2025.(8)____ Australia's rapid weight gained has health agencies and state governments racing to find ways to encourage people to get on their feet and shed some kilometers-while sending the weight-loss industry skipping to the bank, pocketing $1 billion a year.(9)____(10)____
