Il tasso di obesità nel Regno Unito è uno dei peggiori in Europa: 228 milioni di bambini in tutto il mondo saranno obesi entro il 2040, avverte il rapporto
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/obesity-rate-worst-europe-report-b2931644.html
di Barbecue_Wings
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Twice as high as france and Italy. Plenty of areas in those countries where people are poor but the focus on food is entirely different there.
The UK has allowed itself to be monopolised by fast, awful quality food. People have lost the ability to cook from scratch and choose the easy option more often than not.
Tax junk food and subsidise fruit and veg.
These children have poor ideas about food and diet ingrained, at this early age through no choice of their own. Allowing them to be obese is abusive
I wonder if the rise in companies like Just Eat, Uber Eats, Deliveroo are playing a factor?
In the past there was no centralised source for take outs. With that in place and all the offers that come with it, maybe people are eating out more often than they did.
Weve privatised school canteens and they are so unhealthy. I’ve worked at schools where kids are eating cakes and slices of pizza everyday. Some parents won’t even know this.
At some point in the next decade semaglutides will become generic and this problem should go away.
Sucks we’ll have to wait until then, lots of people are going to die needlessly.
Not to worry, the miracle cure is here!
Get these lot pumped full of GLP-1’s.
No pesky diets, or restrictive portion control, or even expensive nutritious food.
All the delicious processed slop they can handle, just with an chemically constricted appetite, and a juicy public health contract up for grabs too!
What a Wonderful World!
It’s sad how bad we’ve let our collective health become, because I’m confident that this poor health is behind why so many people have mental health and other issues.
You really notice it when you fly to continental Europe and everyone looks so healthy.
It’s not weather-related either because my observations remain the same in the Low Countries, northern France, northern Spain, Ireland etc. Which all have similar climate to us.
My family and I have been “boycotting” fast food restaurants basically since I was a kid, and I believe we’re all better off for it health-wise.
If much of the food you’re eating is very salty, or sugary, or oily, or otherwise ultraprocessed, that’s an obesity risk. Stick to fresh ingredients- especially fruits, legumes, and vegetables.
Yep, there’s loads of fat kids with easily offended fat mums backing them up nowadays.
Really complex problem to solve so nothing will be done about it.
There’s a reason fast food companies spend millions on advertising and marketing. And it works. Just like the gambling companies do the same.
Nobody has time to cook, but everyone has time to scroll endless mindless slop on their phones.
I do think the weather being so depressing over winter is a factor. I’ve just started exercising again as it’s feasible to go outside once more. Winter is properly grim in the UK
Honestly what a change this country would see if we could have a nationwide roll out of something like ozempic.
What would a supermarket look like?!
* 30k+ people die per year in the UK due to weight related heart issues, nevermind alllllll the other health issues related before someone goes on about the risks*
The government needs to do more to tax unhealthy foods – prime example is the pasty tax.
isn’t the mounjaro patent expired before 2040? once cheap generics are available then almost no one will be obese except by choice or irrational fear. even if they do have a small cancer risk, which is unproven for people without a predisposition, and we can likely make an affordable test for that predisposition if we try and we should. the risk of obesity is too high to ignore, not only is it healthier to take the increased risk thyroid cancer (or whatever) over the risks of obesity, but you don’t have to be obese either, and trust me, you don’t realise what a difference it makes until you’re slim for the first time in your life.
We drive people into poverty, develop outside play areas, destroy local clubs, privatise school dinners and under fund education and wonder why children are getting fatter.
Well with less food being grown, there will be less to go around.
More parents just not giving a shit and looking for the easy option.
Why make a pizza from semi scratch when you can just shove frozen. Crap in oven and call it good.
Zero excuse youtube is say there so is a wealth of information most people have the sum total of human knowledge at their finger tips ffs
By 2040 UK childhood obesity rates are predicted to go up 1% but the overweight rate is predicted to go down 1.6%. So overall 0.6% more children will be healthy weight?
What I’ve noticed as an European who’s been living in the UK for a while, is that there are barely any supermarkets with fresh food counters like fish or meat or even proper deli but tons of isles with chrisps, sweets, chocolates. Tesco shut down their fresh fish and meat counters and introduced sushi and pizza instead ffs. Asda is one of the worst of them all with the most isles for sugary and processed foods. Why people are so lazy???
People go for cheap and easy. Rather than cheap and a little bit of effort. Unfortunately if you grow up in a household where eating crap processed food is normal you will keep doing it so this trend will just get worse
It’s convenience food that’s the killer. Fast food and junk food isn’t cheap now – it’s convenient.
You can make healthy meals on a budget and cheaper than the junk – but it can take time to make. Not always, it that’s where the problem also lies – education.
People’s food education now is awful.
Anecdotally I see the opposite. I see more people going to the gym than pubs these days.
A lot of people are lazy to make a decent meal from scratch and eat processed foods and have take away too much. It’s called self control and a bit of exercise.
With the price of food through the roof I think people won’t be able to afford being obese
But they still persist with the sugar tax on drinks, despite it doing bugger all, apart from taking away choice for those of us intolerant to sweetener.
I left for Japan twenty years ago, right? Went back to the UK a couple years back and – fck me sideways and call me Sally – what happened? They were overweight in 2003, sure, but 2024? It’s like everyone’s been quietly inflating like balloons.
I’m walking around with my mum going, “Mum… what the bloody hell has gone on here?”
Even she’s put on a bit, and she’s not exactly living on junk food and nonsense. Vegetarian, supposedly eating the good stuff.
And my brother – he’s a carpenter. On his feet all day. Lifting, working, proper physical job. Doesn’t even drink. Still has a belly like he’s six months pregnant. How does that even happen? That’s not laziness – that’s something else. That’s systemic.
Something in the food, has to be. Fck the sugar tax, how about suing the choccy companies? Get everyone to sort their bollox out before everyone’s keeled over by 40.
Speaking of age, the older people… bugger me. You can’t find someone over sixty-five without a walking stick, a brace, or a mobility scooter. Fat fckers huffers, barely stepping five feet along the seaside promenade before they’re having sit down and rub their ankles. Puffing away like they’d just run the London Marathon. Women in their 20’s who should be svelte and beautiful looking like the Swedes look like fcking Cabbage Patch kids with weird painted unibrows and round, bloated faces.
Meanwhile here in Japan? Seventy-five, eighty-five – just out there, walking fast, hiking mountains, doing laps around the park. No problem.
Something I learned in Asia is, salads don’t have to be boring. Asia has figured it out. Bit of sunny lettuce, sesame dressing, some pickles, carrots and sweet potato banged in the roaster 40 mins, maybe a bit of bacon – done. That’s lunch. That’s enjoyable. Tastes better than fish fingers & ketchup also.
This is why I want my wife and me to be a healthier weight when have we have children. It’s so much easier to set a good example when you yourself are following it.
When adult obesity rates are very high in the UK, it is likely that childhood obesity rates will also increase. This issue is linked to lifestyle and home environment, creating a vicious cycle. I have seen the suggestion before that there should be regulations requiring food to have labels with colour-coded stickers: green for healthy food, yellow for acceptable food, and red for unhealthy food. Expert panels could assess and categorise foods accordingly. This system would help parents make informed decisions and discourage them from consistently feeding their children foods labelled red or yellow, raising awareness about what children are eating.
Ozempic for all, will be the cure. Watch the next set of headlines.
We have Greggs crying because people are slimming down, farmers complaining potatoes aren’t being bought and they have too many as people don’t want crisps and chips, and in this thread a national crisis of fat folks.
So which is it?