University In The Brewery

Why are our children getting fatter?

18th August, 2004

It seems everyone in Australia is caught up in the frenzy around child obesity and have an opinion about what is causing it and how it should be fixed. So why have our children become among the fattest in the world? Come and hear what practitioners and researchers have to say about it and how they are tackling one of the biggest public health problems facing our young people.

Dr Tony Okely, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong and Jane Wishart, Senior Paediatric Dietician at Wollongong
Hospital will explain:

• Just what has happened in a day in the life of a child over the past 20 years to cause this increase in child obesity;
• Why this epidemic will be more difficult to treat because of the nature of the factors that influence it;
• What can, and is being done to promote healthy eating and physical activity among our children;
• What it will take to halt the problem at an institutional
  and societal level.

Where: Five Islands Brewery, Eastern end of the WIN Entertainment Centre (Cnr Harbour and Crown Streets) Wollongong 2500

When: 5:30 until 6:30 pm, Wednesday 18th August 2004

Cost: FREE

For further information call Troy Coyle on 4221 4420 or email tcoyle@uow.edu.au.

Last reviewed: 16 February, 2007