Are the people of Sheffield getting fatter?

[Nijinsky 10]

Seems to be the case over the last few years.

[andyofborg 11]

Seems to be the case over the last few years.

 

its just you who are getting thinner

[choogling 14]

I was brought up in the fifties and fat people were rare ,in my class we had two people who were fatter than the rest and are probably still overweight fifty-five years later.

[Nijinsky 10]

You is maybe a rite there.

[chocki 13]

Yes, including me

[Funky_Gibbon 42]

Everyone is getting fatter. It's got very little to do with Sheffield other than the fact that Sheffield is one of the poorer areas of the country and a decade of austerity policies have made many people poorer and so less able to afford a healthy lifestyle/food.

[Padders 2,881]

Everyone is getting fatter. It's got very little to do with Sheffield other than the fact that Sheffield is one of the poorer areas of the country and a decade of austerity policies have made many people poorer and so less able to afford a healthy lifestyle/food.

 

Yep, nationwide problem.

[Nijinsky 10]

Sheffield is not one of the poorer areas of the country. Where do you get this rubbish from?

[apelike 10]

.... and a decade of austerity policies have made many people poorer and so less able to afford a healthy lifestyle/food.

 

How come the poorer people in the 1950s and 1960s when junk food was a rare treat managed it? Sorry but I think it is mainly down to choice of lifestyle and also laziness to some degree. When you hear someone in a supermarket asking their child in a pushchair what they wanted, "a pot noodle and a packet or crisps" then you know something is wrong socially and not because of poverty.

Edited July 30, 2018 by apelike

[Nijinsky 10]

Of course it is ape.

 

Some one mentioned the need for wider isles in Lidl down Darnall the other day.

[tinfoilhat 11]

Fat people are nothing new, only thing is the number increasing.

 

I'm spotting a newer phenomenon - bendy legs. Mainly seems to affect the fuller figured person but not exclusively. Normal legs from buttocks to knees then the legs sort of splay out - almost like a fish tale, only with legs.

[Mr Bloke 1,445]

Hmmm...

 

... I think it must be something to do with all the free school milk we had as kids.

 

All that calcium has probably helped us grow bigger bones...