Preventing Obesity: A Policy for Healthy Eating in Australia

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A policy to prevent the present monster of obesity:
A very interesting policy had been published in the month of November in the year 2016
that had covered one of the most concerning harmful non-communicable disorder that had made
the policy makers, the healthcare department of the government and the healthcare professionals
quite tensed. This disorder is nothing but the gowning rates of obesity that had affected more
than half of the citizens of the nation ranging from childhood to that of adult people
(http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight ). Some of the most
important causes of the disorder are the extremely busy lives of the individuals that urge them to
be satisfied with takeaway foods. Another is the improper health literacy of the different persons
that make them unaware of the different habits that are resulting in calorie accumulation as well
as the improper lifestyle management that is also culminating in the occurrence of the disorder.
Therefore, this policy has been a boon to such readers that can be followed as guidance by the
citizens. This policy is also notifying the different initiatives that the government and other
concerned authorities are taking for the ordinary citizens so that they can remain safe from the
grasp of the disorder.
This policy called the “Obesity and healthy eating in Australia Evidence summary” is
mainly published by the government of health in Victoria and had discussed different important
aspects of the diseases in details with wonderful illustrations. In the initial pages of the policy,
one can find explanation about the body mass index, discretionary food, food environment and
food system. Therefore, in a way this is a very good aspect, as it would help readers in
development of knowledge about the different important terms and the ways they associate with