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“#What’s driving Australians’ unhealthy food habits<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Public health experts have long argued<\/a> that when it comes to preventing obesity, we need to stop blaming individuals.\n <\/p>\n

Our new online tool<\/a>, released today, confirms we live in an environment where the odds of having a healthy diet are heavily stacked against us.<\/p>\n

Unhealthy foods are readily available and heavily marketed to us by the food industry. This makes it very easy to over-consume unhealthy foods. It also makes it very difficult to consistently select healthy options.<\/p>\n

Our online tool\u2014Australia’s Food Environment Dashboard<\/a>\u2014brings together the best-available data to describe Australia’s food environments. For the first time, we have a clear picture of the ways our environment drives us to consume too much of the wrong types of foods.<\/p>\n

Supermarkets heavily promote unhealthy food<\/b><\/p>\n

Australian supermarkets are a key setting in which unhealthy foods are pushed at us.<\/p>\n

More than half of the packaged food<\/a> on Australian supermarket shelves is unhealthy. At end-of-aisle displays<\/a>, unhealthy products are promoted much more often than healthier products.<\/p>\n

Unhealthy products are also “on special<\/a>” almost twice as often as healthy foods. What’s more, the discounts<\/a> on unhealthy foods are much larger than the discounts on healthier foods.<\/p>\n

And at checkouts<\/a>, it’s almost impossible to pay for groceries without being exposed to unhealthy foods. <\/p>\n

All of this intense marketing for unhealthy foods contributes to the unhealthy mix of products in our supermarket trolleys.
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Children’s exposure to junk food promotion<\/b><\/p>\n

Australian children cannot escape unhealthy food marketing. As they travel<\/a> to school, and play and watch sport in their community<\/a>, kids are exposed to a constant barrage of promotions for unhealthy food and drinks.<\/p>\n

When they turn on the TV<\/a> they will see more than twice as many ads for unhealthy food compared to healthy food.<\/p>\n

And when kids are on their mobile devices<\/a>, they are hit with as many as ten unhealthy food and drink ads every hour.<\/p>\n

It’s worse in more disadvantaged areas<\/b><\/p>\n

Our dashboard shows food environments in disadvantaged areas are less healthy than those in advantaged areas. The cost of a healthy diet<\/a> is general<\/a>ly higher in low socioeconomic areas and is much higher in very remote parts of Australia.<\/p>\n


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