“TV Report” by Carla

Date created: 20/11/2024

(I had to do this news report for a university project. It’s a bit of a comedic piece. Hope you enjoy reading it!)

PRESENTER: Wondering where to live if your obsessed with healthy eating? Brisbane won’t be your place to live. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the “Heart Foundation” analysis, based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, the Darling Downs in the South of Queensland, is the most obese part of Australia.

PRESENTER: For people like John Swear, who is trying to trim down his weight and eat healthier, he says,

JOHN SWEAR: I have tried to loosen up my act, but its tricky when you see the yummy foods on ads. Billboards and bus stops, its hard to ignore.

PRESENTER: And this behaviour is only getting worse. According to the 9news website, “just 4.6 percent of Queenslanders ate all of their recommended vegetables. Where’s the other whopping 96 percent?

PRESENTER: The Queensland Health website claims that, “a Queensland Health report found that an alarming 36% of the total dietary intake in Queensland was from unhealthy foods. Apparently in the experiment, they concluded that, “Boys ate 40% of their diet from unhealthy foods, while girls consumed 31%.”

PRESENTER: Parents argue that more is needed to combat this rising issue.

PARENT: It’s unacceptable, we need tighter rules to combat obesity, especially in our kids.

PRESENTER: it comes after damning evidence that “More than 44 per cent of Darling Downs residents are obese, and almost three-quarters do not get enough physical activity to be healthy,” and we think that includes children.

PARENT: More needs to be done to minimise the risk of obesity in our children and the whole of Darling Downs.

PRESENTER: It comes after a nutritionalist, and mother Zoe Martin says in the news coverage,

NUTRITIONIST: “I look for no more than 5 grams of Sugar per food item.”

PRESENTER: this advice that most parents will want to hear but are they willing to put the work in?

PARENT: Yes, a thousand times, yes. Why wouldn’t you?

PRESENTER: But for people like John Swear, who struggle to stay healthy, there’s hope.

PRESENTER: On the website Healthline they recommend 25 tips to make your diet healthier. The top 3 are:

Eat a smaller plate/ bowl: according to the website, “you’re tricking your brain into thinking that you’re eating more, making yourself less likely to overeat.”
Eating greens first: the website says, “eating vegetables before a carb-rich mealhas been shown to benefit blood sugar levels.”
And slowing down when eating: “In fact, studies comparing different eating speeds show that fast eaters are much more likely to eat more and have a higher body mass index (BMI) than slow eaters.”