admina mile to and from their desks under radical British NHS plans to tackle the obesity epidemic.
Medical experts also want to make cookery lessons in school compulsory with pupils being taught how to make healthy, low calorie dishes.
Dr Frances Howie, assistant director of public health at NHS Worcestershire, outlined the plans at a crisis meeting to discuss the nation’s bulging waistline.
One of the more controversial ideas is to force adults to take more exercise by deliberately building car parks three-quarters-of-a-mile away from their offices.
Dr Howie warned experts that “we cannot carry on as we are.”
Figures released yesterday by the Department for Work and Pensions revealed the total number of obesity claims had doubled in three years to 7080.
Dr Howie told a meeting of Worcester City Council scrutiny committee:
“If we don’t get it right, in the years to come all we’ll end up dealing with is overweight people and those who suffer from alcohol abuse.
“If we do get things right over the next 25 years we will see all those problems pulled back, much more assistive technology and many more people living at home than would otherwise be the case in their later years.
“We need people to take better care of their health so we get rid of lifestyle-related disease, which is the worrying trend emerging from this new generation for the first time.
“Everyone I speak to at the county council understands we can’t go on as we are, so I’m optimistic.” — Daily Mail.
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