Scots children are the fattest in the world

[wendigo100]

From The Times: A third of Scottish 12-year-olds are overweight and a fifth are obese according to new statistics

The Government research, published by the Information Statistics Division (ISD), revealed that Scots school children are now more likely to be obese than even their beef burger munching peers in the United States.

A third of Scots school children are overweight and one in five is obese by the time they reach the age of 12, compared to one-in-six in the United States and one-in-20 across Britain as a whole.

I liked this bit:

The Scottish Executive claims to have invested record levels in improving health.

Really? About as successful as the rest of New Labour's "investments" then!

[AlfredJPruffock]

From The Times: A third of Scottish 12-year-olds are overweight and a fifth are obese according to new statistics




I liked this bit:

Really? About as successful as the rest of New Labour's "investments" then!

They mean as improving the health of the Top Edinburgh Civil Servants with their 500k pensions etc Wendigo.

[scotspine]

thought you were above such mean-mindedness alfie these are hard-working, self-sacrificing public servants.

[Churchill]

and ugliest!

[scotspine]

and ugliest!

steady on

[AlfredJPruffock]

thought you were above such mean-mindedness alfie these are hard-working, self-sacrificing public servants.

Aye SP

Banged to rights there , Im sure they are worth every penny from their industrious efforts.

God Bless em.

Better give them this money than making sure those 2500 oldies will die from fuel poverty eh ?

[scotspine]

"those 2500 oldies will die from fuel poverty eh " - i feel a new initiative from new lie coming on. - let them chop trees.

[DodgyAgent]

and ugliest!

That is not fair. The good looking ones leave Scotland and come here, people like Robin Cook and Gordon Brown

[Alf W]

Scottish kids soon burn the weight off when they get a smack habit in their mid-teens.