Recently released results from the 2011–13 Australian
Health Survey(1) show that in 2011–2012, 25?3% of children
aged 5 to 17 years were overweight (17?7%) or obese
(7?6%), with girls (27?1% overweight/obese) doing somewhat
worse than boys (23?6% overweight/obese).
Although this is a high proportion of children who were
overweight or obese, the good news is that it had not
increased since 2007–2008. Globally, childhood overweight
and obesity increased dramatically between 1990 and
2010(2), hence the interest we see in this topic as expressed
in submitted articles