To be fair our government is doing a fair bit to encourage health but australia is still up there with the worst of them in terms of obesity and preventative medical problems. Australia used to be a bit of a sporting nation and now we are somewhere in the top 10 of weight related problems. I suppose this hurt someone high ups view of how things should be, so thats where they are putting a fair bit of money at the moment. Its a slow change but mabey getting health info out there will show some positive changes across the population in the next 10 years. The major positive is that here you can say the sky is blue and someones going to tell you your wrong so while there is BS out there i think its more publicly and openly debated. A government body released a moderatley high protien diet book recently and almost immediatly the newspapers printed articles about some private funding provided for the research from a meat company and nutritionist wrote in articles slamming every aspect of it. Anyone who reads the paper would have heard just about every opinion out there on what you should be eating.Some people may feel its disrespectful to openly question people but here its fairly normal. Mabey thats where these problems start, people not questioning the info out there or only seeing what they want to see. Pride can be a fantastic motivator or better put hurt pride can. For years your average australian thought they were pretty fit and healthy only to find they were a nation of fatties and heart attacks waiting to happen. Mabey the same approach would work with medications. Tell them all they are a bunch of legalised junkies, the same as a guy in a gutter with a needle in his arm. Then mabey 10 years from now we will see an improvement in that too.