Health figures - Weight we can’t afford

HEALTH Service Executive figures released yesterday are a challenge to us all. The HSE tell us that if each of us exercised for about 20 minutes a day we could save the bones of €1,000 in health funding each year.

Yesterday’s figures confirmed that Ireland’s obesity epidemic continues apace and that unless we confront it far more that the one-in-five adults who have a reduced quality of life because of their weight will suffer. Already that figure is higher amongst younger people.

Saving money is one thing but surely it is as least as important to save yourself from the misery of being unhealthily overweight.