62.1% of adults overweight in UK in 2013 – official figures – and it counts for now too.

It would seem a simple and elementary task to educate people to eat healthily and sensibly to keep slim and well nourished but in the past couple of decades in the UK it seems to have become a case that it takes someone with a degree in nutrition comparable to rocket science to educate the British Public to keep their waistlines and food intake to a sensible and intelligent intake of all that is best to make us healthy and happy.  Why are the British losing in the weight war?  Well, we sell lots of chocolate bars everywhere you look, we have thousands of fast food restaurants, we have calorific fizzy pop and when children grow out of that people imbibe hugely fattening beers lagers and alcopops.

OK keeping fit in the gym is popular but now nutritionist Madeleine Shaw is calling for schools at least to bring back home economics classes to combat obesity and unhealthy eating. 25 year old Shaw who is also a yoga teacher and a so called lifestyle guru says “we have an obesity epidemic in the UK.  Young people are the most important to target and we need to get them eating well and exercising”.

Sixteen per cent of boys and fifteen percent of girls aged two to 15 have been categorised as overweight.  Lets be positive – that means the other children are not, but Shaw who is popular on Twitter and Instagram, thinks supermarkets could help the problem! “The ultimate goal is to get more fresh convenient food in supermarkets” she says.s

Shaw works with Brita water. Find details at brita.co.uk. She is only one of many who wants to get Britain back into shape.  Watch this space.

Penny Nair Price