Around two-thirds (63 per cent) of adults are above a healthy weight, and of these, half are obese. ‘We are at crisis level with obesity,’ says Linda Baston-Pitt, chief executive of PurpleBee Learning, which delivers training on health and wellbeing. Obesity is linked to serious and life-threatening conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer and strokes.
Role models
Some professions can find themselves under the spotlight when it comes to their own diet and nutrition because it is expected that they should be a role model to others. Last year, Conservative peer Lord Robathan singled out teachers and health workers for criticism, saying ‘for too long there has been, I regret to say, a large number of very overweight people in the NHS and in our schools setting a very bad example to children and people in hospital’.
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