2018年6月大学英语六级听力常考时文：Australia- the second Fattest Country

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　　1.Which country is the first fattest nation in the world? ...
        　　2.What is the widely-held image of Australians like? They are ...
        　　3.What is the reason for the increasing number of obese Australians in the
past decade? A sedentary lifestyle and ...
        　　Forget fit, tanned and sporty ?the new generation of Australians is fast
becoming fat, pale and lazy. A love of junk food, television and computer games
has sent the country's waistline ballooning, with Australians weighing in as the
world's second fattest nation after the United States. Rather than hitting the
beaches, thousands of young Aussies are heading for the couch with a bag of
popcorn, with one child in every four classified as overweight or obese. The
trend is squashing the widely-held image of Australians being sun-bronzed and
superfit. "The rate of obesity, particularly among children, seems to be going
up faster in Australia than anywhere else in the world, but we don't know why,"
said Dr Peter Williams, president of the Dietitians Association of Australia.
Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, estimate 60 percent of men, 50
percent of women and 25 percent of children are overweight or obese ?a huge jump
from five percent in the 1960s. A sedentary lifestyle and a changing diet has
doubled the number of obese Australians and trebled the army of fat children in
the past decade, pushing direct health costs related to childhood obesity to
about A million (294 million pounds) a year. Data shows childhood obesity in
Australia is rising at the rate of one percent a year, a trend which suggests
half of all young Australians will be overweight by 2025. Australia's rapid
weight gain has health agencies and state governments racing to find ways to
encourage people to get on their feet and shed some kilograms ?while sending the
weight-loss industry skipping to the bank, pocketing A billion a year.