On Wednesday 11 May, the National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey was released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The survey provides a comparison of Australians’ diets against national guidelines, and the results are worrying: almost 97 per cent of Australians are failing to eat enough vegetables in their daily diet.
Even more alarmingly, when the study looked at the diet of Australians younger than 18, it found that 99.5 per cent of children are not eating enough vegetables.
Experts have warned that unless Australians learn to love veggies, they are more likely to suffer the devastating impacts of chronic disease and obesity, reported The Age.
The report found that the majority of Australians’ food intake was coming from alcohol, pies, cakes and other junk food.
