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Name: Pang Zi-Ming
Student Number: 08661481
Tutor: Yola Engler
Student No.: 08661481
Introduction
This is a report about the rise of obesity globally and also in Australia. It will include an analysis of the overview of
the obesity epidemic, the analysis of how the fat tax policy solution will discourage the eating of unhealthy food
and also potential issues of implementing the fat tax.
Overview of the obesity epidemic
According to World Health Organisation (2013), “Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat
accumulation that may impair health.” The size of obesity in the world has double since 1980 and in 2008, 35% of
adults aged 20 and over were overweight, and 11% were obese. The percentage amounts to more than 140 million
adults, 20 and older, being overweight. Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese.
65% of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.
