SEMINAR:
  Asian Studies Seminar
  - Young and Unfit: Indonesian University
		
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:00 - SS North room G25
		
Katherine Hudson, PhD candidate
The perceptions and behaviours which form Indonesian university
students’ diet and exercise cultures are simultaneously an individual
experience, a collective mode of identification and reflect diet and
exercise trends across the economically developing world. As this
generation of Indonesian young people become more educated and aspire to
higher-paying sedentary careers in urban centers, the number of
kilojoules people can afford to consume will increase while the amount
of exercise people participate in is likely to decrease, which, I posit,
will have significant social and economic implications for levels of
obesity, diabetes, hypertension and other non-communicable diseases
(NCDs). I hypothesize that students, partially in response to broader
social pressures for educational success, often ignore their body’s diet
and exercise needs. This attitude will probably cause weight gain and
set up patterns for life. With rising rates of lifestyle-induced
diseases, Indonesia now faces the complex double burden of under- and
over- nutrition which could lead to a public health crisis within one
generation. In this broader context, the period of university study
offers an opportunity to educate young people about diet and exercise,
with the hope of enabling them to avoid lifestyle induced NCDs in the
future.
		
For more information:
  Laura Dales
  laura.dales@uwa.edu.au

Starts       : Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:00
Ends         : Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:00
		
Last Updated : Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:28