Issues: Staying Fit PSHE Personal Wellbeing - Health

ISBN: 9781861684554
Date of publication: Sep 2008

£8.45

Summary

Around one in four men and one in three women in the UK are overweight, and child obesity is also a major health issue. As well as risks for the individual which come with being overweight including circulatory diseases, diabetes and some forms of cancer obesity also affects society, with the cost of related health problems expected to cause a crisis in the NHS if trends continue. This book looks at how and why we should stay fit.