Tag: over weight

Controversial Study Puts Blame on Working Mums For Childhood Obesity

A study has claimed working mothers (and not dads) are responsible for childhood obesity – and mums have something to say about it. The study collated data from children born between 2000 and 2002, and came to the conclusion that the children of single mums working full-time were almost 25 per cent more likely to […]

15/03/2019 | 0 Comments More

What Is Fitness?

Good question, we are all individuals and with this everyone’s definition of fitness is going to be different. A 100m sprinter would find a marathon very hard and a marathon runner would find a 100m sprint a struggle too.  Both are supremely fit, but conditioned to their own event. Many of us however, simply just […]

23/07/2016 | 0 Comments More

Obesity Fears – The Facts

Here are the FACTS: Obesity in the UK, has cost the Economy according to a study from McKinsey & Company approx £49.5billion, making it after smoking the second largest health liability of the UK economy.  If this epidemic is not tackled, then this cost will increase, as the latest predicted figures for Obesity in the UK will increase […]

21/06/2016 | 0 Comments More

Pauline Quirk – Not So Light As A Feather Again…

Back in 2011 I wrote an article about Pauline Quirk from Birds of a Feather, and her weight loss. I said then knowing about the diet she not only did to lose the weight but even became the face of the diet – Lighter Life, that she would pile it all back on again and […]

08/01/2016 | 0 Comments More

FAT ENGLAND

We are the fattest country in Europe and getting Fatter! Recent news on the subject of Obesity in the UK naming Tamworth in Staffordshire as the fattest town in the UK has spurred papers and TV to talk more about the subject of how bad our nation is getting but no one seems to be doing […]

20/02/2013 | 0 Comments More