Summary
THE Scottish Executive has just declared war on fat children. Launching an initiative to appoint lots of 'activity co-ordinators' in our schools, First Minister Jack McConnell posed for pictures at a toddlers' breakfast club as the mites supped lugubriously on toasted fruitbread, bananas and milk.
We are assured that child obesity has reached unprecedented levels the word epidemic is tossed about and that today's blubbery young ' uns will be tomorrow's coronary-ridden, cancer-laden, stroke- smitten Scottish health statistics.See the full content of this document
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Wider Issues in the Battle of the Bulge
No one, of course, disputes that Scottish children are increasingly rather rotund. A PE teacher of my acquaintance used, despairingly, of an evening, to talk of the day's rigours at 'Fat Camp'. Every lunchtime sees a mle round the local chippie, as pasty weans cluck like seagulls and dine on chips, pausing only to trans...
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