Brits - are you going to take more exercise to support your country?

Good question and of course there is good medical evidence that the less exercise you take and the more you drink, the more likely you are to have a stroke or heart attack or cancer and so a premature death.

But laziness and alcohol are failings that Brits have had all my life not something that has just happened, and personally I think the problem is being better addressed today by the people than when I was young.

I remember back in 1952 there was ectasy and joy expressed on the BBC and papers that Britain (or rather a Brit horse) won ONE gold medal in the Olympic Games in Helsinki as in those days Brits were so lazy we seldom won anything and British workers were generally considered the laziest in the world usually being on strike. But today strilkes are rare, at the most recent Olympics in Beijing Britain won 47 medals including 19 gold and in those sports where active training is necessary.

When I was a teenager I used to go running and used to get a lot of flack from people who consideered me mad or stupid, because in those days it was very unusual to see anybody ever on UK roads or in the countryside doing training runs. Whereas today wherever you live it is very common to see people doing training runs in tracksuits and gyms all over Britain seem to be generally increasing their membership..

Myself - I suppose I have got more lazy in that I no longer go running or do any sort of sport now I am over sixty and I drink too much and use the car too much instead of walking. But at least I have never claimed benefit in my life. But if my failuree to take adequate exercise today does mean I get a heart attack so be it, I know it is my own fault.but too late to change now, whatever any government Ministers say. My belief is this sort of utterance by our lazy politicians is part of the propoganda nanny state build up for the forthcoming banning off alcohol in UK following the banning of smoking, all supposedly in the interests of public health of the British people.

I'm already hyperactive as it is, I don't own a car, I walk pretty well everywhere that is within walking distance (anything up to about an hour's walk, longer than that, I take a bus) and I work out in the gym 4 or 5 days a week. I play physically demanding games with my 6 year-old daughter all the time. I don't think I'm one of the Brits who make up this particular statistic, I'm not at all lazy!

I think us Brits can be lazy yeah, but then again we work hard alot of the time, so surely we are entitled to be a little lazy on our days off. I exeercise by walking, not the most exciting thing in the world, but it's better than sitting on my **** all day. I think it's just saft that they have even bothered to calculate these statistics. If people wanna be lazy let them! Xxx

i do no longer think of everyone seems to be examining this properly in any respect. The Left starts off with the end result, and pronounces it a victory, without pondering the somewhat motives for the launch. the splendid stops at what the British "might desire to have accomplished", and forget approximately what became accomplished, the end result, and forget with regard to the prospect that there could be a reason of the launch. i understand this plenty. They weren't released because of the fact of British Diplomatic efforts, because of the fact those had fairly all started. They weren't released because of the fact they feared tension, because of the fact no person with the potential to accomplish that had given them any warnings. i do no longer understand what's somewhat in the back of the launch, however the version between me and the majority is that i understand there's a reason i will't see yet. i've got ruled out the prospect that it became because of the fact the Iranians are in basic terms super people.

Ive got to admit i am a lazy sod and i am on benefit coz ive lost my job. i used to go running and play football but ive sort of stopt doing zat coz im just fed up with evrything and i think being on benefit makes u lazy. But if it reerly wood improve my chances of getting a job again if i did start going on 5 mile runs 3 times a week like i used to then i wood do.it/ But i dont think employers give a dam about ppl's physical fitness in decyding who to employ so it wood be pointless.

And our polityicians are the most ill informed and ignorant lazy half employed and worth 25p an hour. We obvioulsly suit one another.

How often does that clown take excercise anything but his belly and drinking arm? Does he go to the gym orrun in the park?

Well I'm not overweight, although keeping active is required to keep the heart healthy and pumping. In general I do think we need to be more healthy as a nation not only to support our country.

If I were British and extremely obese, I would surely listen to this advisory from my Government even if I didn't support it on most other issues. Turning one's life around is never too late.