Why are we all so unhealthy

 I am really puzzled.

There are so many programmes on the television ,both day and night all about cooking.

Chefs from Mary Berry to Jamie Oliver show us all how to whizz up healthy meals in the time it takes to shop for a ready meal and put it in the microwave. Ping cookery I call it.

 All this television cookery is great entertainment, but that, it would appear is all it is. Entertainment.

When you have ten minutes to spare just take yourself off to a supermarket, any one will do, and watch what customers put in their trolleys. Now that really IS entertainment. Junk food by the trolley load. Pre packed vegetables, ready meals, cakes, biscuits, sweets, tinned and packaged pre prepared meals high in sugar and salt. And then take a look at those pushing the trolleys.

What percentage of them are thin? Not many.

Now, we are told the Health Service is going to run a trial and pay for personal trainers and dieticians to show people how to get healthy. They cannot afford to pay for meningitis vaccine for children over a certain age., but they can pay for those who are unhealthy mainly because of their chosen lifestyle .

A few months ago I had to attend a physiotherapy session at an NHS hospital. The Physiotherapist was a very slim, fit looking man, but the same cannot be said for the Nurse who was in attendance at the Clinic. She was so fat she could barely walk, she waddled and looked as if she would have a heart attack at any moment.

After the physio session he asked me if I had any questions. I did.

I asked him why so many of the Nurses that I saw on duty were overweight. Trying to contain a smile he replied,

“It is because they work such unsocial hours and they tend to snack, and of course grateful patients give them chocolates”

So now we know.

Of course I am sure there are those who are fat because they have some physical disorder, but many are fat because they eat too much of the wrong kind of junk. The late food critic Michael Winner once said he was asked to write a diet book, he said he could do it in two words. Eat less.

 I saw a TV programme last year about those who were too fat to get out of bed and who had to have a special hoist to get them into an ambulance to take them to hospital.

I would love to know, if they are too fat to get out of bed, who brings the food to them.?

It really is a puzzle.

 Oh well if the NHS is going to pay for personal trainers at least it will keep the gyms busy.

I sometimes play a game called If I was in charge. I think if I was there would be riots.

Everyone who came into a supermarket would have to stand on a weighbridge and those over a certain weight would only be allowed to buy in certain aisles, where all the food was healthy.

Better still put punitive taxes on all junk food not just sugar in fizzy drinks. That way the supermarkets and food producers might start acting in a more responsible manner.