Hi! This is Dave Letele, the creator of this petition.

I just want to take a second to thank everyone who has shown support by signing and sharing it. 

As of today, 1,925 have signed the 'Help Combat Obesity in NZ' Petition.
Simply put, it calls for the fast-food industry to show social responsibility and reinvest it's profits back to community health initiatives.

We need to gather as many signatures as possible to present support for this petition to Hon Andrew Little - Minister for Health and Hon Peeni Henare, Associate Health Minister, showing that we have a solution and need immediate action to tackle obesity in NZ! 

Here are some statistics about obesity and health-related conditions that contribute to taxpayers costs!

Annual Update of Key Results 2019/20: New Zealand Health Survey

•  The prevalence of obesity among adults aged 15+ was 30.9 percent, which corresponds to an estimated 1.24 million adults. This overall prevalence has remained relatively stable since 2012/13, however, there was an increase between 2011/12 and 2019/20 for adults aged 45–54 years and 55–64 years.
• The prevalence of obesity among adults varied by ethnic group, with the highest prevalence amongst Pacific (63.4 percent), followed by Māori (47.9 percent), European/Other (29.3 percent) and Asian adults (15.9 percent). These percentages represent about 168,000 Pacific People; 242,000 Māori; 890,000 European/Other and 93,000 Asian adults who were obese in 2019/20.
• After adjusting for age and gender differences, Pacific and Māori adults were 2.3 and 1.8 times as likely to be obese as non-Pacific and non-Māori adults, respectively.
  After adjusting for age, gender and ethnic differences, adults living in the most socioeconomically deprived areas were 1.8 times as likely to be obese as adults living in the least deprived areas.
• Nearly one in ten children aged 2–14 years (9.4 percent) were obese. The child obesity rate has decreased since 2018/19, and while this has decreased since last year, it is too early to report a trend.
• The prevalence of obesity amongst children varied by ethnicity as follows: Pacific (29.1 percent), Māori (13.2 percent), Asian (3.4 percent) and European/Other (7.2 percent). Pacific children were 4.7 times as likely, and Māori children 1.6 times as likely, to be obese than non-Pacific and non-Māori children respectively, after adjusting for age and gender. Asian children were less likely to be obese than non-Asian children, after adjusting for age and gender.
• After adjusting for age, gender and ethnic differences, children living in the most socio-economically deprived areas were 2.7 times as likely to be obese as children living in the least deprived areas.
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Also, thank you to all who have donated to help have our cause more visible on Change.org. To clarify, no proceeds of the donations come to myself or BBM. If you are wanting to donate directly to support BBM's work or charity Just Move Charitable Health Trust (CC55414) please email admin@thebbmprogram.com