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MovedGoalPosts · 25-01-2007, 15:16

Education and publicity will help, reducing the advertising that creates demand from kids for the wrong foods will help, but the real issues are the changes in lifestyle meaning that kids, as are most of the population, are far more sedentry than in years gone by.

Yes schools don't do PE type stuff as well as they used to. But where has all the basic excercise gone. The average school now has queues of cars round it at start and finish times. In the 70s and even 80s that was unheard of, kids used to walk, and thus get excercise. Computer games have them sitting in front of a TV. We would have been out and about on our bikes, or kicking a ball around in the park.

It will take a very dim person to not be aware that they or someone in their family is overwieght. It shouldn't need a letter from school to tell that. Weighing programs are more for government statistics to play lip service to a problem.

Our increasing weight problems are about the wrong types, and wrong amounts of foods, but also about activity. Until somebody wants to really get a grip on the overall lifestyle issue and re-educate the problem isn't going to have a chance of going away.

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MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 62 Posts: 15,868	Re: MPs voice childhood obesity fears Education and publicity will help, reducing the advertising that creates demand from kids for the wrong foods will help, but the real issues are the changes in lifestyle meaning that kids, as are most of the population, are far more sedentry than in years gone by. Yes schools don't do PE type stuff as well as they used to. But where has all the basic excercise gone. The average school now has queues of cars round it at start and finish times. In the 70s and even 80s that was unheard of, kids used to walk, and thus get excercise. Computer games have them sitting in front of a TV. We would have been out and about on our bikes, or kicking a ball around in the park. It will take a very dim person to not be aware that they or someone in their family is overwieght. It shouldn't need a letter from school to tell that. Weighing programs are more for government statistics to play lip service to a problem. Our increasing weight problems are about the wrong types, and wrong amounts of foods, but also about activity. Until somebody wants to really get a grip on the overall lifestyle issue and re-educate the problem isn't going to have a chance of going away.