One of my GPs had a gastric bypass a couple of years ago to deal with his weight. Most of the nurses at my surgery are over weight. Stats for the whole country tell us that a huge proportion of adults are overweight. “Obesity is defined in adults as a body mass index (BMI) above 30. Within the UK the data from the Health Survey for England 2006 showed that 24% of adults (both men and women) were obese and an additional 44% of men and 34% of women were overweight (BMI ?25-29.9). Around 16% of children aged 2 to 15 years were obese and an additional 14% were overweight. For those aged 2 to 10 years, 16.3% boys and 14.4% girls were obese. For those aged 11-15 years, 17.6% of boys and 19.0% of girls were obese. In contrast to these figures, in the early 1980s just 6% of men and 8% of women in the UK were obese. The recent Foresight obesity report, which looks at ways that the Government can tackle the obesity problem over the next 40 years, has projected that by 2050 60% of the UK population could be obese, creating a cost to the economy of £45.5 billion.” “28% of adults in England are obese and a further 36% are overweight. This briefing provides statistics on the obesity among adults and children in the UK, along with data on bariatric surgery and international comparisons.” - Government website.
There can be a touch of confirmation bias here but as an example the nurse who injected me with the flu vaccine on Saturday was very overweight, the nurse who fitted me with with a 24 hour ECG monitor back March was overweight, the dental nurse assisting my dentist at my last appointment was overweight, when I was in hospital last year the impression I got was 'most' nurses and some doctors but the reality was maybe 10 to 20% of them were overweight including one lassie who told me she had recovered from a bad bout of covid, in that case that 'Most' was my confirmation bias kicking in, the reality was not in fact 'most' but it was a lot.
But I have met two obese Hattie Jaques matronly type filipina nurses, one in London the other works nowadays in a call-centre in the PI, both in their 20's,very big for filipinas, both described themselves as "tamsi"
https://fullfact.org/health/are-half-nhs-workers-obese/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...se-stats-figures-survey-results-a8091781.html https://nursingnotes.co.uk/news/anger-nhs-staff-accused-being-fat/#.YUjwgi14Xi0 https://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland-nurses-more-likely-be-overweight-1435708 It’s what they eat…
This is what I'v just eaten so far today. Three large eggs scrambled in butter and avocado smoothie with sweeter. oh and a coffee. that will keep me going til dinner which will be either fish or chicken with veg. I drink about 10 glasses of distilled water also drink electrolytes to keep hydrated. Carbs hang on to your electrolytes. When your body is in Ketosis you lose a lot of minerals that you sweat or pee out. Not logged into my carb manager but I recon 70% fat, 5% carbs and 25% protein. Those are my daily macros. Sometimes I don't get enough fat so I have some cream cheese.
That’s still an awful lot. There is an irony where overweight NHS clinicians are advising the public on how to go about a healthy lifestyle. It’s quite well recognised just now and not just my imagination. It’s also not confined to the U.K. A lot of it is down to their lifestyle (eating badly on the hoof) poor training and poor hospital food. Again this is not something I have just dreamed up. It’s all coming to the surface now that clinicians haven’t been trained on nutrition. Just medicine. How do I know this? GPs tell us this. At Leicester University where there is a big medical school they teach medicine and not nutrition and so cannot advise their own patients or nursing staff on a healthy lifestyle. Most GPs are learning belatedly from their own patients How do I know this? They tell me this. Whether it’s 50%, 60% or 100% it’s still a colossal problem. The problem (symptoms) are recognised nationally. How to solve it is only just beginning to be established. Boris Johnson knows his overweight. That isn’t helping him to solve that problem. He still thinks he needs to get on a bike. “We learn nothing about nutrition, claim medical students “http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43504125 This isn’t something I have just googled. I simply sourced it to emphasise the point. The number of times I have been told that a patient has been for lifestyle advice delivered by an overweight NHS nurse has been colossal. Eye wateringingly funny but not funny. That BBC report is very accurate. You don’t have to dig very deep to read all the “Fat Man of Europe” reports over the last decade. The country has earned that title.
Well, we all exaggerate from time to time. But the overall point is still a shocking one. Some reports say nearly 2/3rds of the U.K. are overweight. It’s still of massive concern whether it be 49% or 80%. This wasn’t the case 40 or so years ago.
there are some massive heffalumps round here where i live. pushing pramloads of offsprings along. how they ever got pregnant i cant imagine.
Just as I have been saying. Yes it could be just another one of those news articles. Except it isn’t. This report is absolutely bang on. So don’t take any notice of the archaic traffic light system. A diet rich in dairy fat WILL lower heart disease risk. https://www.theguardian.com/science...dairy-fat-may-lower-the-risk-of-heart-disease
Same here. It’s not entirely their fault. Firstly as females they are prone to PCOS and gestational T2 diabetes and secondly have absolutely no idea that what they are eating is blowing them up like a balloon. I see the same here. It’s a National issue. Kids mothers at school wander around the playground like sumo wrestlers and have no idea why. And the nurses are the same. If they think they are eating healthily then they will be following the Eatwell Guide which is again archaic and needs ripping up and replacing. But don’t let me, a Fil Forum keyboard numpty tell you that. The two Hampshire clinicians I referred you to earlier will tell you the same and will also tell you the same about full fat dairy foods like cheese. And those that listen to either of them will reverse their adverse metabolic health conditions.
My my my. In the BBC Good Food Guide magazine this month. Low carb swaps. It’s catching on. There must be something to it, methinks…. You don’t have to count the carbs, just swap them out. Eat with meat and vedge. It isn’t rocket science but I know some people find it difficult to get their head around.
If food is medicine,why isn’t it taught in medical schools, we might wonder. This article explains why. ( Just in case you thought it was me making it all up). This is the USA but it’s the same in the U.K. where students are taught medicine in medical school. The clue is in the title of the faculty that is dong the training. https://thecounter.org/medical-schools-lack-nutritional-education/ The punchline comes at the end. “Poor diet continues to be one of the biggest contributors to chronic disease and mortality in the U.S., killing one in five Americans every year. That’s a higher rate than three other risk factors—pollution, lack of exercise, alcohol and drug use—combined. As the tide continues to rise in favor of ideas and policies that combine food and healthcare, medical schools may be next to center nutrition in their work. Someone’s just got to prescribe it.” It’s the same in the U.K.
The cracks are developing on drug dependency… https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...rugs-are-inappropriate-for-patients-99c3pjptb