Public Health England .............

[10ClarionSt]

.......will tell you what you shouldn't be doing. A report from PHE today says too many middle aged people are overweight and have the wrong lifestyle resulting in diabetes, blood pressure etc. So we're all old, boozing, fat lazy gits!

[Tilly2]

I'm not!

[EDDIE51]

Yes for the majority of UK citizens that is true. Even worse for the USA though!

[Sqad]

\\\\ too many middle aged people are overweight \\\

Too many.

\\\So we're all old, boozing, fat lazy gits!\\

That about sums it up......not all, but too many.

[Tilly2]

I'm off to play Badminton.

[youngmafbog]

I'm off to the pub via Greggs.

[jno]

it doesn't say "all", so you can decide for yourself if you're one of them. I am!

[jourdain2]

I'm 67, probably drink too much (anything at all appears to be 'too much' these days') am not obese and walk every day as well as singing and being busy. Not my lifestyle that gave me arthritis. Until being diagnosed with asthma earlier this year (all that pollen started lots of people off) I have happily written 'none' next to the 'medication' boxes on forms most of my life.

OH is 83 and apart from a heart problem (inherited from his mother and his son had an early heart attack too; he's thin as a rake and walks miles a day with the dog) is also healthy (odd brush with skin cancer). He's certainly not diabetic and walks the dog a minimum of 2 miles twice a day. (Proper poorly at the moment with the lurgy though.)

Suspect that it is a lazy lifestyle amongst the younger generations that is causing this. Compulsory sports in schools would help - and I mean sports not the excuse for a sports day I helped with at a 98% Asian girl's school in Bradford when they went the rounds in the gym of activities such as darts and catching a ball. I was in charge of bean-bag throwing. These girls were 13/14 and, yes, that comprised the whole of their 'Sports Day'. This was about 1999.

[EDDIE51]

School sports have been sacrificed for exam results. With 'League tables' for exam passes determining the level of funding the school gets per pupil it is hardly surprising that less time is being devoted to sport. Also many schools have sold off part or even all of their sports fields for housing development. An offer in the £ Millions can be hard to resist for a school struggling with finance.
The sports fields of my old school are now an estate with over 150 Houses!

[fiction-factory]

Parents dropping their kids off / picking them up right outside the school gates don't help either, eddie.
Actually, all the schools I work at seem to have adequate sports facilities, often now including astroturf all weather pitches.