Obesity – the killer disease of Britain

Officials of Public Health England have warned that obesity is fast becoming a killer disease and that lack of exercise is as dangerous as smoking and is directly to blame for one in six deaths in Britain dailymail.co.uk.

In fact, the situation in the UK is worse than America for inactivity – it seems half of women and a third of men move about so little in their daily lives that they are exposing themselves to diseases ever earlier in life. This sedentary lifestyles are not only causing obesity – they are directly responsible for a vast range of illnesses like muscle and joint complaints, depression, high blood pressure, heart disease, dementia, stroke and also type 2 diabetes.
Lack of exercise is evident from the fact that 63 per cent of adults do not take the recommended amount of exercise of two and a half hours over the course of a week. In comparison, this lack of exercise is 18 per cent in the Netherlands, 28 per cent in Germany, 33 per cent in France and 41 per cent in the US.

Officials have suggested that people could do simple exercises like cycling to the shops, gardening at the weekend or taking the stairs rather than the lift to check obesity.