A Rant Over Childhood Obesity

Now lets get one thing straight first,as all who have known me for many years I am not and never have been Mr Skinny so I am not preaching from the angle of one who has always carried a finely honed physique.

My rant has been triggered by the latest pronouncement from St Jamie bloody Oliver who now want cookery taught in schools as the panacea for that greatest of today's ills obesity,well Jamie (sorry Sir Jamie doffs cap in the presence of the all knowing) cookery may be a great idea so that in later life yo9u dont get people living on take aways but the answer to obesity and it should be bloody obvious in this Olympic year is SPORT & EXCERSISE.

Let me go back to my school days when PE and games were compulsory,when we were forced on X Country runs through muddy woods next to estates whose local Neanderthals would happily beat up a Grammar School kid,when on school sports day even those of us who could not even spell running had to take part in the athletics and look pretty crap at it.Appalling you might say that must scar a child for life,well no because it made you look for a sport you were good at in my case swimming and Table tennis that got me out of X Country etc so that PE and Games periods were actually enjoyable.

Now onto out of school and this is where parents have to take all the blame,kids sat in front of computers or the TV eating take aways and TV dinners,sorry you idle gits but get of your arses and get your kids down to the park or a walk along the canal etc etc get them exercising and when you get back don't go via McDonald's or the chippy get the cook book out and do a Bolognaise or a Chilli or anything that actually contains something nourishing rather than just fat,and you don't need cookery lessons to teach you to do that

And finally the good old government,well governments actually all of you who have sold off school playing fields brought in H&S and Human Rights legislation that means the little darlings can cry of sports because it might upset them well pull your finger out and make sport of some sort compulsory,and if that means getting ain aerobics or Zumba teachers or whatever give the kids options but make them do sport so that just maybe in this Olympic yeart we can start doing something to help fat kids be a bit less fat