Obesity and our Councils

Good question- pre-Ozempic days!

This thread is from 2014🤨!

Why is OliviaRema reviving such ancient threads?

You’re quite right, the evidence is all around us on the high street. I do worry terribly for the little ones waddling past my window with their supersize slush drinks.

I want to add I ve nothing against Turkish barbers they are very good at their trade and most are beautifully set out clean and bright but you don’t need five almost in a row

I don’t think you even need a survey, maybe it’s just my area, but the amount of overweight people you meet as you walk around can give you the statistics at a glance. Especially worrying are the children We only ever had one overweight child in my class at school (and I still see her she’s not overweight as an adult so not sure what that was about) She was very well to do and from a privileged background her brother was a normal skinny boy weight

Is it the councils problem no I don’t think it is only in as much as they should / could be more selective in which shops they allow to open in an given area
I think I counted between 15 / 20 eating places in the small area I live in …fish and chips 4 coffee shops 3 ,2 kebab, 1 KFC
4 restaurants Chinese 2, ( one just closed) Indian 1 vegan cafe 1 plus 2 cake shops and 2 hotels with restaurants on board
This area is about a quarter of a mile by two roads width
It’s blooming ridiculous When I was younger the planning permission for opening up a shop was much tighter you couldn’t open two similar businesses within such and such a distance ( don’t know the distances ) but basically you couldn’t have two butchers or two greengrocers close together That seems to have gone out the window.
Surely that’s what councils need desperately to look at and deliver it would also help in the rows of Turkish barbers and Vietnamese nail bars

OliviaRema

Those Sport England stats still rely on our honest guesses, don’t they? My council’s plate is full with bins and buses; leave waistlines to us and the GP. Lost a stone myself with daily dog walks—no nanny state needed.

You only have to look around you to see how many people are overweight these days so imo the ‘nanny state’ does need to do something about it. I thought Johnson, when he was PM, was going to do something about it after his covid scare but nothing seemed to come of it. As for GP’s they will only be involved once someone is seeing them for another health issue. I fully understand that it isn’t easy to keep your weight down once you get older and have mobility problems but this is starting with young children now and it’s a ticking time bomb.

Those Sport England stats still rely on our honest guesses, don’t they? My council’s plate is full with bins and buses; leave waistlines to us and the GP. Lost a stone myself with daily dog walks—no nanny state needed.

A sample of 165,000 people doesn't seem enough to me to make such conclusions but I bow to their expertise... I suppose by putting the LAs in charge of combating obesity the idea is to make it a local solution based on local knowledge with the benefit being felt by the local NHS! I think I get it ...

This is the basis of the data they collect.

The figures are based on adjusted, self-reported height and weight measurements collected via questions in the Active People Survey by Sport England since January 2012.

Sport England give the details of their sampling methods at
www.sportengland.org/research/about-our-research/active-people-survey/

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26037619