Obesity rising faster in country areas of Australia

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The disparity was partly due to greater access in urban areas to healthier foods and places to exercise. 9News

BMI is an internationally recognised scale that gives an indication of whether someone is a healthy weight.

The study found that between 1985 to 2017, average rural BMI increased by 2.1 in women and men. In cities, however, the gain was 1.3 and 1.6 in women and men respectively.In 1985, urban men and women in more than three quarters of the countries studied had higher BMIs than their rural counterparts. This may be due to some disadvantages for people living in the countryside, the researchers said, including lower levels of income and education, limited availability and higher costs of healthy foods, and fewer sports facilities.

 

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