Extract from Commons debate on Obesity Strategy 2020 - May 27
Friday, 28 May 2021 08:04
Mr Jonathan Lord (Woking) (Con) [V]:...These proposals are blunt
tools that will have little or no impact on obesity. The Government
assess that both the TV watershed ban and the full online ban will
lead to just a 4.5 daily calorie reduction among overweight
children. That is completely inconsequential compared with
initiatives such as The Daily Mile or Couch to 5K, which have the
potential to increase calorific expenditure by about 100 calories a
day, or targeted, community-based...Request free trial
(Woking) (Con) [V]:...These proposals are blunt tools that
will have little or no impact on obesity. The Government assess
that both the TV watershed ban and the full online ban will lead to
just a 4.5 daily calorie reduction among overweight children. That
is completely inconsequential compared with initiatives such as
The Daily
Mile or Couch to 5K, which have the potential to
increase calorific expenditure by about 100 calories a day, or
targeted, community-based approaches, such as the Health, Exercise,
Nutrition for the Really Young—HENRY—programme in Leeds or the
Three Area Project in Wakefield. Those two programmes are based on
a holistic approach. They address education, activity levels and
food inequality, and have had measurable success...
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