{"id":6198,"date":"2010-05-10T02:20:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:10:06","slug":"top-5-facts-about-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/05\/10\/top-5-facts-about-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Facts About Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich&#8217;s most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/node3.int.trclient.com\/4948\/online\/18125931-4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Risk Pulse<\/a> adviser publication includes an article\u00a0on the growing obesity problem in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The article\u00a0is called\u00a0<em>Top 5 Facts About the Fat Epidemic<\/em>, and presents some sobering information about obesity trends within the community.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->According to the article, statistics show that awareness and perception of obesity amongst Australians is\u00a0declining at the same time that\u00a0obesity levels themselves are actually rising.<\/p>\n<p>The top 5 facts about the fat epidemic\u00a0presented in the Risk Pulse\u00a0article are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Over a third of Zurich death claims are a direct result of cardiovascular disease<\/li>\n<li>Obesity levels have risen during the past year &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; But the perception of obesity is falling<\/li>\n<li>Diabetes is Australia&#8217;s fastest growing chronic disease<\/li>\n<li>Men are more likely than women to be overweight<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The article expands briefly on these points and is an excellent summary to give\u00a0 prospective clients pause for thought when considering their wealth protection needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zurich.com.au\/zportal\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=GroupSite\/Page\/ThreeColumnLeadImage&amp;cid=1269747638557&amp;p=1267999268965\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to link through to the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zurich&#8217;s most recent Risk Pulse adviser publication includes an article\u00a0on the growing obesity problem in Australia. The article\u00a0is called\u00a0Top 5 Facts About the Fat Epidemic, and presents some sobering information about obesity trends within the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","category-underwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}