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From The Wanganui Chronicle?..

Wanganui residents have cut down their sugar intake but still indulge in high-calorie foods like fish and chips, a community dietitian says.

Pushpa Wati of the Regional Primary Health Organisation, who sees many people who are obese, said residents needed to be more careful about their diets.

?Most obese patients have either developed diabetes or high blood pressure or are about to develop these conditions.

?For some, their children are also obese,? she said.

New Zealand?s obesity rates reached infamous levels last week when the Government beat out its transtasman counterpart to win a Couch Potato Award.

The Australia and New Zealand Obesity Society accolade recognised weak leadership in tackling the obesity epidemic.

About one in three New Zealand adults is overweight and one in four obese, according to a New Zealand Adult Nutrition survey.

Obesity rates have nearly tripled in recent decades. In 1977, only 9 per cent of males and 11 per cent of females were obese.

?In Wanganui, most people are being careful about the amount of sugar they add into their tea or coffee, but they consume a lot more calories through cream, butter, full cream milk, cheese, fried foods [and] fast foods,? Mrs Wati said.

Diabetes New Zealand was not surprised by the Obesity Society award. ?The worst thing [the Government] did ? was they abandoned the rule that had been implemented ? that demanded school tuckshops and canteens only had available healthy food for sale,? president Chris Baty said.

Obesity rates for children aged two to 14 years show one in 12 is obese and one in five is overweight.

Mrs Baty said obesity was often a significant contributing factor in type two diabetes ? a disease the Ministry of Health estimates affects more than 200,000 New Zealanders. ?There?s a massive increase in diabetes. It certainly is linked with the increase in obesity, but it?s not the only reason.

?It?s also to do with our ageing population [and] we know that diabetes has a predisposition within Maori and Pacific Island people.?

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