Forget fit, tanned and sporty—the new generation of Australians is fast becoming fat, pale and lazy. A love of junk food, television and computer games has sent the country’s waistlineballooning, with Australians weighing in as the world’ s fattest【M1】______nation after the United States. Rather than hitting the beaches,thousands of young Australians are heading to the couch with a【M2】______bag of popcorn, with one child in every four classifying as【M3】______overweight or obese. The trend is squashing the widely-heldimagery of Australians being sun-bronzed and superfit. " The rate【M4】______of obesity, particularly among children, seems to be going upfaster in Australia than anywhere else in the world, and we don’t【M5】______know why," said Dr Peter Williams, the president of the Dietitians【M6】______Association of Australia. A sedentary lifestyle and a changing diet has doubled thenumber of obese Australians and treble the army of fat children in【M7】______the past decade, pushing direct health costs related to childhood obesity to about $380 million a year. Data shows childhood obesity in Australia is rising at the rate of one percent a year, atrend suggests half of all young Australians will be overweight by【M8】______2025. Australia’s rapid weight gained has health agencies and state【M9】______governments racing to find ways to encourage people to get ontheir feet and shed some kilometers—while sending the【M10】______weight-loss industry skipping to the bank, pocketing $1 billion a year. 【M9】