Have you looked around recently and everywhere you look there are people overweight?
Well according to studies the Experts predict that if the current rate of growth continues, three-quarters of the population could suffer the ill effects of excess weight within 10 to 15 years.
The health risks associated with excess weight are numerous, the worst being premature death. So why then do people let themselves get so big that they have to have an operation?? ( of course people with medical conditions which cause massive weight gain or loss i am not referring to as its not their fault)
I am referring to the people that cost the NHS 500 million pounds a year and the wider economy over 2 billion pounds a year in lost productivity.
If keeping healthy and fit can make you live a longer and happier life then why arnt more people doing it, is it because the government has recommended that you must spend 150mins a week doing exercise??Yea i suppose that is a bit much to ask isnt it...NOT
The reason of my rant today is that i saw a child, no more than 8 years old id say who was soo overweight he couldnt bend down to tie his shoe laces before he went to school. His mother thought it was highly funny ( she was absolutely massive and couldn't do it either without sitting the child on a wall then tieing it for him).
What people do with their own lives is their prerogative and their right but surely its wrong and simply heartless to let a child be brought up in a way that quite obviously he is going to suffer in the long term.
Thats my thoughts for the day, let me know your views?
interesting read found here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/physical_health/conditions/obesity.shtml
It is worrying. I was waiting for a bus the other day and there were two giant women outside a chip shop eating battered sausages out of their hands. They both had babies in prams and both gave their kids sausages too. Its a cycle. Its so often the case that fat parants bring up fat kids.
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