Britain must get its act together as the obesity crisis is not only killing our NHS but us too
With more deaths than alcohol and smoking combined, the UK's obesity epidemic really is a ticking time bomb
BRITAIN is in the grip of an obesity epidemic.
It costs the NHS over £5billion a year and results in more deaths than alcohol and smoking combined.
Shockingly, one in five kids starting school next month will be overweight.
So we welcome the Government’s new anti-obesity strategy, and particularly the plan to ensure primary children do 30 minutes of PE each day.
Teachers might moan but a daily run not only keeps kids fit, it also improves behaviour and concentration.
We remain opposed to the sugar tax — a regressive measure targeted at the poorest — but are pleased to see the PM ditch intrusive nanny state proposals aimed at branding and advertising.
And we fully endorse clearer food labelling, which the Government is now free to implement having previously been banned by Brussels.
The solution to Britain’s expanding waistlines isn’t pushing people into poverty or food companies out of business.
It’s getting kids and adults off the sofa and exercising outdoors.
This is a good start.
Lairy bikers
HOW the rest of the world hates watching us romp away with the medals in Rio.
China is spitting feathers about being pushed into third.
Cyclists from Australia, Germany and France are queuing up to question Team GB’s success.
It’s pathetic sour grapes from competitors reeling from their own underperformance in Brazil.
Team GB cycling are crystal clear the Olympics is their main event.
The goal was to exceed the achievements at London 2012 — a challenge our supremely talented riders accomplished in spectacular fashion.
Britain’s cyclists, engineers and strategists have shown again that on the big stage they’re unsurpassed.
We hope the rank jealousy displayed by the competition spurs them to repeat the success in four years’ time.
Fix jobs mess
IT’S one record we didn’t want to see smashed this summer.
For the first time there are over a million people from the eight countries that joined the EU in 2004 now working in Britain.
This comes on top of almost 1.3million from other EU countries, and means foreign-born nationals make up almost a fifth of the UK workforce.
There can be no clearer indication of why Brits voted to take back control of our borders in the EU referendum.
Jobs, wages and public services are under enormous strain as a result of the open-door immigration policy.
Brexit has handed Mrs May the mandate to fix that historic error.
She must take it.