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"Growing Up in Scotland: Overweight, obesity and activity
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Good old Len
Jazz police are paid by J Paul Getty
Jazzers paid by J Paul Getty tooAlso from I'm Your Man, his best album and one f my faves
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take BerlinAnd of course
I said to Hank Williams, How lonely does it get
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me in the Tower of SongAnd
Well you can stick your little Pins in your voodoo doll
I'm very sorry baby doesn't look like me at all
....they don't let a woman kill you
Not in the tower of songCan't quite recall the kill you line so will listen now
To me he is Il miglior fabbro
But to him il miglior fabbro is Hank
Billy Connolly loved Bert Jansch and there is a great BBC programme where he goes with Bert to visit Sonny Terry, who is Bert's hero. Sonny Terry of the great duo as mentioned in Van Morrison's Cleaning Windows
Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters sings I'm a rollin stone.
Sonny and brownie hated each other at the end like Walter Matthau and George burns in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys.
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Just a reminder, this thread started with
http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2012/05/5385/0
FIVE YEARS AGO.
Nothing much seems to have changed.
Posted 6 years ago # -
A quarter of 5 year olds?
And their only soundbites appear to be "stop BOGOF offers on chocolate and fizzy drinks" and "force restaurants to serve smaller portions".
i.e. same legislation / sledgehammer approach as on alcohol.
Nothing said about exercise, nothing said about educating the parents (many of whom see fat as the new normal) about healthy food intake for their kids.
Think I will invest my pension in mobility scooters..........
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One of the country’s most senior nurses has said patients should say something to health workers if they think they are overweight.
Chief nursing officer Fiona McQueen was responsible for drawing up policy on how best to tackle the growing problem of obesity in the UK.
As the same time, she says she was ‘clearly losing my own battle with the bulge’.
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http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/18/call-nurse-fat-think-overweight-7238991/
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@TheEconomist
If current trends continue, obese children will soon outnumber those who are undernourishedhttps://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/956293366047703040
(Globally, not just UK/West).
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Public health officials said they were working with industry to make food healthier.
They also said a sugar reduction programme and the government's sugar tax would help to tackle childhood obesity.
The researchers, from the University of Birmingham, said families, communities and the food industry probably had more of an influence than school initiatives.
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Being fat as an adult is linked to 13 different types of cancer, says Cancer Research UK, who did the analysis.
The list includes breast, bowel and kidney cancer, but only 15% of people in the UK are aware of the link, according to the charity.
Britain is the most obese nation in Western Europe, with rates rising faster than in any other developed nation.
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He encouraged me to get active - at 22 and a half stone I was morbidly obese and chronically unfit
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Glasgow Games had little impact on sport participation, report says
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43620479
Of course there’s more to it than ‘sport’, clearly Govs need to think #ActiveTravel!
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Individual teachers can decide when to fit the Daily Mile into the school day...
There's your problem, right there.
No mention of how to automatically build it into daily life i.e. by walking to school, to/from the shops etc.
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There's your problem, right there.
Yup. I almost became a teacher, I did the postgrad course. The Daily Mile was a Thing that year but frankly it was bottom priority. In practice nobody even delivers the full recommended PE time, never mind anything extra. Active travel is the way to go.
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Yes, active travel in everyday life is the way to go - but we're facing a bit of a health emergency now, and at least the daily mile has the potential to reach every child, not just the ones whose parents have the time/patience/nice neighbourhoods to walk and cycle with their offspring to school.
Posted 6 years ago # -
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“When I was young, to play outside was really normal. We wouldn’t think about it. Today kids are playing more with their mobile phones or sitting behind their computers. Because of this, more kids are suffering from obesity and the solution should be very simple. We have to teach children how to move more at school. With just a few alterations we could create for Dutch schoolyards more opportunities for children to play outside together. This can only happen if we do it together.”
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Study casts doubt on 'healthy obesity'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44301684
Handy weight and waist size comparator tool at the foot of the page too.
Apparently "About 75% of men in your age group in Scotland are overweight, obese or very obese." (45-54 age group). I'm no longer any of these (except a similar age), thankfully...
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"overweight or obese but otherwise healthy"
That sounds a bit too much like OLA motorists.
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Researchers studying this “social gradient in overweight” across different countries see a pattern emerging. Obesity is a form of malnutrition, they argue, and the greater the structural inequality within a society, the more that people living under financial and social constraints lack the opportunities for an active, healthy life.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/03/obesity-food-poverty-cheap-bread
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Channel 4 bosses have said Jamie Oliver’s campaign for a ban on airing junk food adverts before 9pm is wrong, arguing that it is anachronistic because children rarely watch live television.
The celebrity chef, who is one of Channel 4’s biggest stars, recently launched a campaign backed by Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon for a ban on TV advertising for food high in salt, fat or sugar before the watershed, arguing that such products are a cause of childhood obesity.
However, Channel 4 said any such ban could have a substantial impact on its revenue and prevent it from funding programmes about healthy living.
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The scientist, whose speciality is understanding the mechanisms that lead to diabetes, said it was “simplistic” to label the problem as solely due to obesity but added that the biggest risk factor for type 2 diabetes was body mass, accounting for almost 90 per cent of cases.
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Psychologist Emma Kenny has been advising Food Standards Scotland on their new obesity campaign against upsizing
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Posted 6 years ago # -
Excellent article in the Herald. Problem as always is translating well meaning hand wringing into reality.
The fast food proliferation is awful, and for some people these are what represents "a restaurant".
Its very noticeable if you happen to be at a shopping centre / retail park which, again, is what some people call "the shops" ;
Cameron Toll - Subway, Greggs, Costa, McDonalds
Straiton - KFC, Subway, McDonalds, Frankie and Bennys
The Fort - McDonalds, KFC, Subway, Greggs, Pizza Hut, and god knows what else in the new bit at the cinema.
While its not a popular opinion, fat is fast becoming a class issue where poor(er) less socially mobile families see nothing out of the ordinary about the above.
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“While its not a popular opinion”
Neither popular in the sense of people understanding (or even thinking about) the issues, nor - what I think you mean - are some people who know about some of this willing to be seen as moralistic or classist.
Just a general symptom of ‘lack of leadership’ - fear of accusations of ‘nanny statism’.
(And that’s not even thinking about commercial interests...)
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@chdot - yes, exactly.
There was a part of that Herald article regarding Jamie Oliver and Sturgeon chatting about taxing high fat foods - the immediate response in some quarters was "snobby english guy telling us what to do" rather than "this food is killing you".
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