The Cause And Effects Of Obesity In Australia

Obesity has been recognized as a serious health issue in recent decade. According the health survey in Australia from 2011 to 2012, there were more than fifty percent of Australian adults are obesity or overweight and it is also identified as the main risk factor for certain chronic disease including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancers (1). The steadily increasing of obesity rate in Australia has become to affect those chronic diseases management. Thus, many studies are interested in finding out the most effective way to control the body weight and they also indicated more than five percent of weight loss is able to bring down the incidence and the risk of developing chronic diseases (2). In addition, the American Diabetes Association …show more content…
These significant effects in the appetite and the subsequent energy intake particularly when intake more than 30 g of the dietary protein at breakfast rather than other time in the day (5, 6). The effect of a high protein breakfast also have been demonstrated that can reduce the energy intake over the 24 hour period in several studies. Leidy et al. suggested protein rich breakfast not only make people feel longer satiety and less hunger throughout the morning, but also with reduced energy intake in the evening, particularly the high fat food …show more content…
They also mentioned that high protein diet could increase the satiety by prolonging the level of glucose during the postprandial and producing a lower insulin response (9). In addition, two previous systematic review and meta analyses of randomized trials have shown that high protein diet can provide notable positive effect on body weight and reduce the elevations of postprandial glucose (10). Thus, it is of interest to investigate intake a high protein breakfast that might effect in decreasing the risk factors of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in general