호주인, 2030년까지 과일과 채소는 줄이고 정크푸드는 늘릴 전망티건 오스본과 미셸 와킴, BTN High 제공주제: 식단과 영양3월 19일 수요일분홍색 프로스팅, 스프링클, 무지개색 사탕이 얹힌 도넛을 먹는 여성의 입가.한 연구에 따르면 호주인이 매일 먹는 정크푸드는 2030년까지 18% 증가할 수 있다고 합니다. (Unsplash: Maxime)새로운 연구에 따르면 5년 후 호주인은 정크푸드를 더 많이 먹고 과일과 채소는 줄일 가능성이 높습니다.

지금 우리는 소금, 지방, 설탕이 많이 함유된 “임의 식품”을 매일 4인분 정도 먹고 있으며, CSIRO 연구에 따르면 2030년까지 18% 증가할 가능성이 있다고 합니다.

이로 인해 개인과 납세자의 지갑에 큰 타격을 줄 수 있는 많은 건강 문제가 발생할 수 있습니다.

그렇다면 호주에서 더 나은 식생활을 방해하는 것은 무엇일까요? 그리고 이 문제를 어떻게 해결할 수 있을까요?

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2030년 우리의 식단은 어떨까요?

호주인들은 무엇을 먹고 있을까요? 오늘날 호주인이 평균적으로 무엇을 먹는지 알아보기 위해 BTN High는 젊은이들의 식단이 어떤지 조사하기 위해 거리로 나갔습니다.

도시 거리에서 웃는 두 청년.
톰과 저드는 둘 다 테이크어웨이 음식을 꽤 많이 먹는다고 인정했습니다. (BTN High: Michelle Wakim)

아마 최고는 아닐 겁니다. 테이크어웨이 음식을 꽤 많이 먹습니다… 그리고 일주일에 며칠은 건강식을 먹기도 합니다. — 톰, 17세

테이크어웨이 음식을 많이 먹지만, 엄마가 일주일 내내 조리한 음식을 만들어 주십니다. — 저드, 17세

저는 뭐든 먹지만, 전혀 좋은 식단이라고는 말할 수 없습니다. — 엘시, 19세

괜찮습니다. 저는 페스코테리언이라 고기를 먹지 않고, 직접 요리를 많이 합니다. 파스타를 좋아해요… 야채도 먹으려고 노력해요. — 체스터, 19세

저는 제 식단이 약간 다르다고 말하고 싶어요. 저는 대부분 건강식을 먹으려고 노력하지만, 디저트를 먹는 날도 있어요. — 릴루, 18세

영양학자 길리 헨드리는 사람들이 무엇을 먹고 어떻게 하면 더 건강하게 먹을 수 있는지 연구하고, CSIRO 연구의 공동 저자입니다.

“국가 예방 건강 전략은 건강한 식단과 우리가 노력하는 것에 대한 매우 명확한 목표를 제시합니다. 그래서 이 연구에서 우리는 그 목표에 대해 어떻게 추적하고 있는지 보고 싶었습니다.”라고 그녀는 말했습니다.

2030년 전략 목표는 다음과 같습니다.

과일 소비를 하루 평균 2회로 늘리기
야채 소비를 하루 평균 5회로 늘리기
재량 식품에서 총 에너지 섭취 비율을 30% 이상에서 20% 미만으로 줄이기

금발에 안경을 낀 미소 띤 여성이 파란색과 흰색 상의를 입고 있는 모습
Gilly Hendrie는 CSIRO의 영양학자입니다. (제공: Gilly Hendrie)

하지만 Hendrie 박사는 9년간의 CSIRO 건강 식단 점수 설문 조사를 조사하고 모델링을 사용하여 예측을 한 CSIRO의 연구에서 이러한 목표를 향해 나아가는 대신 실제로는 후퇴하고 있다는 것을 발견했다고 말했습니다.

“우리는 270,000명 이상의 호주인의 데이터를 사용했습니다. 우리는 추세를 살펴보았습니다. 그런 다음 2030년까지 미래를 예측했고 우리의 식단 품질이 우려스럽게 감소하는 것을 발견했습니다.”라고 그녀는 말했습니다.

2030년까지 과일 섭취량은 9.7% 감소할 것으로 예상되고 자유 식품 섭취량은 18.3% 증가할 가능성이 높은 반면 야채 섭취량은 안정적으로 유지될 것으로 예상되지만 국가 목표에는 크게 못 미칠 것으로 예상됩니다.

변화 만들기
헨드리 박사는 균형 잡힌 식단을 섭취하는 것이 개인 수준에서 변화를 만드는 한 가지 방법이라고 말했습니다.

하지만 거리에서 만난 대부분의 청소년은 매일 과일과 야채를 얼마나 많이 섭취해야 하는지 몰랐습니다.

두 명의 젊은 여성과 한 명의 젊은 남성이 모두 미소를 지으며 도시 거리에서 사진을 찍고 있습니다.
엘시, 메이지, 체스터가 매일 과일과 야채를 얼마나 섭취해야 하는지 추측한 것은 크게 틀리지 않았습니다. (BTN High: 미셸 와킴)

과일 다섯 가지가 필요하다는 걸 기억해요. — 엘시, 19세

아니요, 잘 모르겠어요. — 메이지, 18세

모르겠어요. 야채 다섯 가지, 그런 식인가요? — 체스터, 19세

과일 2인분과 야채 7인분? — 켄드라, 18세

알고 있어야 할 것 같은데, 음, 아니요. — 해리엇, 18세

호주식 식단 지침은 하루에 과일 2인분과 야채 5인분을 섭취할 것을 권장합니다.

“과일 1인분은 쉽습니다. 보통 한 조각이거든요. 바나나나 사과 한 개 정도입니다.” 헨드리 박사가 말했습니다.

“[야채 1인분은] 샐러드 야채 1컵… 또는 조리된 야채 반컵, 중간 크기 감자 한 개입니다.”

토마토와 상추를 곁들인 샐러드 한 그릇, 배경에 노트북이 있는 작업 책상.
헨드리 박사는 샐러드 1컵이 야채 1인분으로 간주된다고 말합니다. (Unsplash: Nielsen Ramon)

헨드리 박사는 평균적으로 “먹어야 할 양의 절반 정도”를 먹는다고 말했습니다.

그녀는 과일과 야채 섭취를 늘리는 저렴하고 쉬운 방법은 통조림과 냉동 식품을 섭취하는 것이라고 말했습니다.

“통조림 야채, 냉동 야채가 더 쉽게 사용할 수 있다면, 그것을 접시에 담아보세요. 놀랍죠.” 그녀는 말했다.

복잡한 요소
하지만 신선한 음식 섭취를 늘리고 간식을 줄이는 것은 항상 간단한 일이 아니다.

헨드리 박사는 생활비, 교육과 같은 다양한 요소가 우리의 식단에 영향을 미쳤다고 말했다.

Australians on track to eat less fruit and veg, more junk food by 2030

By Tegan Osborne and Michelle Wakim for BTN High

Topic:Diet and Nutrition

Wed 19 MarWednesday 19 March

A close of a woman's mouth as she eats a donut with pink frosting, sprinkles and a rainbow-coloured lolly on it. — A study has found the junk food Aussies eat daily may increase by 18 per cent by 2030. (Unsplash: Maxime)

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A new study has found in five years’ time Australians are likely to be eating more junk food and less fruit and vegetables.

Right now we are eating about four serves of “discretionary foods” high in salt, fat, and sugar daily, and CSIRO research has found that was likely to increase 18 per cent by 2030.

This could cause a whole lot of health problems, hurting individuals and the taxpayers’ purse.

So what is standing in the way of better eating in Australia? And how can we tackle the issue?

What Aussies are eating

To find out what the average Aussie is eating today BTN High took to the streets to investigate what young people’s diets look like.

Two smiling young men on a city street. — Tom and Judd both admitted to eating quite a bit of takeaway food. (BTN High: Michelle Wakim)

Probably not the best. I get quite a bit of take-out food … and then I sometimes eat healthy a couple days of the week. — Tom, 17

I do get a lot of take-out, but mum makes some cooked meals throughout the week. — Judd, 17

I eat anything but I wouldn’t say it’s a good diet, at all. — Elsie, 19

It’s okay. I’m pescetarian so I don’t eat meat and I do a lot of my own cooking. Love pasta … try to get my veggies in. — Chester, 19

I would say my diet varies a bit. I try to eat pretty healthy most of the time but there’ll be days where I’ll have dessert and stuff. — Leelu, 18

Nutrition scientist Gilly Hendrie studies what people eat and how they can be supported to eat better, and co-authored the CSIRO study.

“The National Preventive Health Strategy gives us really clear targets around a healthy diet and what we’re striving for. So for this research we wanted to see how we were tracking against those targets,” she said.

The strategy’s goals for 2030 include:

increasing fruit consumption to an average of 2 serves per day
increasing vegetable consumption to an average of 5 servings per day
reducing the proportion of total energy intake from discretionary foods from over 30 per cent to less than 20 per cent.

A portrait of a smiling woman with blonde hair and glasses, wearing a blue and white top. — Gilly Hendrie is a nutrition scientist at CSIRO. (Supplied: Gilly Hendrie)

But Dr Hendrie said the CSIRO’s study, which examined nine years’ worth of CSIRO Healthy Diet Score surveys and used modelling to make predictions, found instead of moving towards these goals we were actually going backwards.

“We used data from over 270,000 Australians. We looked at the trends. And then we projected forward out to 2030 and found a concerning decline in our diet quality,” she said.

By 2030 fruit intake is predicted to decrease by 9.7 per cent and discretionary food intake is likely to increase by 18.3 per cent, while vegetable intake is forecast to remain stable but well short of national targets.

Making change

Dr Hendrie said striving to eat a balanced diet was one way to help make change at an individual level.

But out on the street most of the teens we spoke with did not know how many serves of fruit and vegetables are recommended each day.

Two young women and a young man, all smiling, on a city street. — Elsie, Maisie, and Chester’s guesses about daily fruit and veg serves weren’t too far off. (BTN High: Michelle Wakim)

I remember you need five fruits. — Elsie, 19

No, I don’t think I know. — Maisie, 18

I don’t know, five veg, something like that? — Chester, 19

Two serves of fruit and seven serves of vegetable? — Kendra, 18

I should know this, but, um, no. — Harriet, 18

The Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend we eat two serves of fruit a day and five serves of vegetables.

“A serve of fruit is easy, it’s usually a piece, so a banana or an apple,” Dr Hendrie said.

“[A serve of] vegetables is a cup of salad vegetables … or half a cup of cooked vegetables, or a medium potato.”

A salad in a bowl with tomatoes and lettuce, on a work desk with a laptop in the background. — One cup of salad counts as a serve of vegetables, Dr Hendrie says. (Unsplash: Nielsen Ramon)

Dr Hendrie said on average we were eating “about half of what we should”.

She said a cheap and easy way to boost fruit and vegetable intake was to incorporate canned and frozen products.

“If canned veg, frozen veg, makes it easier use it. Get it on your plate — amazing,” she said.

Complicating factors

But boosting your fresh food intake and cutting back on treats is not always a simple task.

Dr Hendrie said a range of factors influenced our diets like cost of living, education, culture around cooking, and where you live — which all needed to be addressed to reach our 2030 health targets.

“Fresh produce fluctuates in price a lot more than discretionary foods do so that makes it more difficult for some people to budget and plan,”

she said.

Discretionary foods include junk food that is often highly processed and high in saturated fat, salt, and sugar.

“Things like takeaway, soft drink, but also things like processed meats, cakes and biscuits, pies, chips, lollies, chocolate, ice cream,” Dr Hendrie said.Remote communities paying double for food

Photo shows An Aboriginal family standing in a supermarket (man, woman and child), holding a trolley.

The Northern Territory’s largest Indigenous community of Maningrida is finding its own solutions to limit food inflation.

The CSIRO study concluded that without “significant intervention” meeting Australia’s preventive health dietary targets would be difficult.

And not achieving them could have a big impact for individuals and society.

“We know that too much of those nutrients [in junk food] places us at risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure,” Dr Hendri said.

“Chronic conditions place an enormous pressure on our health system. Rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are increasing, and once we get to that point of needing treatment, whether it’s medication or hospitalisation, it costs [taxpayers] a lot of money.”

She said Australia needed to find ways to make fresh produce more available and more affordable for everyone.

More pressure to adopt a sugar tax in Australia. (Health Report)

“In rural and remote areas it’s more difficult to get fresh produce consistently throughout the year, and then at the community level how can we make it normal to eat [healthy food]?” she said.

“[We need] healthy lunch boxes, healthy snacks at sports venues on the weekend, and also in our own homes.”

What’s being done?

State and federal governments have implemented numerous healthy eating policies and awareness campaigns in the past such as a “traffic light” system in school canteens, and other countries have too.

However, the CSIRO study found when it came to research trials, community programs, and government initiatives to increase fruit and vegetable intake, large and lasting changes had rarely been achieved.

The introduction of a sugar tax — raising the price of sweet foods in stores — has been proposed in Australia, and there is evidence from overseas that this approach can lead to reduction in consumption.

Out on the street, young people had their own ideas for change too.

Two smiling young women on a city street. — Leelu and Kendra both had ideas about how to help Australians eat more healthy food. (BTN High: Michelle Wakim)

Probably parents teaching their kids too. Start their life with a more healthy diet and healthy lifestyles. — Leelu, 18

I think having more healthy options available everywhere, in schools, at uni. There’s a Maccas, Hungry Jacks, or KFC everywhere. But if you had easy, quick, cheap [and healthy] options like that all around you that would probably help as well. — Kendra, 18

People getting comfortable and building routines with cooking and having an education system that sets that up that for us. Things taste best when you make them yourself as well. — Chester, 19

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