Saturday 8 February 2014

I Can’t Help But Feel That This Shouldn’t Be ‘Top Priority’…

A healthcare watchdog has called on the borough to do more to tackle childhood obesity after it was revealed one in three ten-year-olds is seriously overweight.
Healthwatch Haringey made the comments after a report by the Haringey’s Health and Wellbeing Board found that 39.4 per cent of the borough’s Year six students are overweight or obese.
Based on the discredited BMI measurement, no doubt?
Sharon Grant, the chairman of the healthwatch, said: “It’s a serious problem but there is no single way to solve it.
“I think parents, schools, the voluntary sector, the local authority need to work together to tackle it.
“The key thing is education – we need to educate people about what is in their food especially what’s in their drink because children are just drinking on the calories.(sic)”
From Pepsi? Or fruit juice?

These people are truly mad, (though not quite as utterly bonkers as the anti-smoking brigade) and we are even madder for allowing them to proliferate...
Mrs Grant added: “We have the first generation of children who are going to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents because of obesity.
“This is a top priority for everyone who works in health and social care in the borough and we are keeping track of the progress being made.
“It will not be solved overnight but this is a classic example of a problem that has to be solved in partnership.”
And so provide public sector employment for yet more useless eaters. There’s got to be some sort of irony there, hasn't there?
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5 comments:

  1. Joe Public8 February 2014 at 13:28

    "Mrs Grant added: “We have the first generation of children who are going to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents because of obesity." "

    For NHS budget, the light at the end of the tunnel?

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  2. Furor Teutonicus8 February 2014 at 18:26

    XX one in three ten-year-olds is seriously overweight.

    Healthwatch Haringey made the comments after a report by the Haringey’s Health and Wellbeing Board found that 39.4 per cent of the borough’s Year six students are overweight or obese. XX

    NO Tit heads, try looking at your teachers, if you think 39.4% is 1:3!

    THEN try telling the rest of us how to run our lives.

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  3. Furor Teutonicus8 February 2014 at 18:29

    XX “We have the first generation of children who are going to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents because of obesity. XX

    But!!

    Hold on.

    I thought, according to "them" it was bad examples set by parents that were causing this???

    If the bastards are more obese than the parents, then SOMEONE is full of bull shit. (WHAT a surprise!)

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  4. andy57598 February 2014 at 21:13

    Joe Public, that's what caught my eye, there is a narrative that we are living too long. Solution; stop us doing so. The past few decades have seen astonishing advances in medicine. With the result that we appear to have hit a brick wall, the barrier being mental health. I know, I care for my 94yo mother, 3 years ago the NHS operated on her at great expense, probably knowing that she had dementia. They may still be experimenting with us, but you can bet your bottom dollar that it's not for our benefit.

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  5. JuliaM9 February 2014 at 07:50

    "For NHS budget, the light at the end of the tunnel?"

    Can't see, the fat kids are blocking it...

    "But!!

    Hold on.

    I thought, according to "them" it was bad examples set by parents that were causing this???"

    Well, quite!


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