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Go and work out.”And whereas parents can always hope the drug-addict child will kick the habit, the stigma of fat is likely to be there for life, as any woman who has ever tried to diet knows. Curiously enough the opposite was true for men, with skinnybeans with a BMI of less than 20 appearing to be the rejects of society.
“I guess there’s no one answer why this should be,” she said yesterday. “My personal opinion is that it may be discrimination or on the other hand the circumstances that the poor are living in increase their chances of obesity.”We are a fatter society than we used to be. In 1980 8 per cent of women were judged to be obese (a body mass 30 per cent greater than it should be) and another 24 per cent overweight.

By 1996 the numbers had risen to 17 per cent clinically obese and 30 per cent overweight.But anxious parents will no doubt already be looking askance at their progeny, dreading the curtain-twitching of the future, not because little Tamsin has broken her curfew again, but because No 12 can see she has already grown out of this year’s uniform. Coffee-morning one-upmanship will alter from “My Esther’s been predicted 3 As, so she’s bound to get into Cambridge” to “My Esther’s been predicted a BMI of 21 so she’s bound to become a successful female executive.” Tamsin’s mother will be shrink from having to admit BMI scores of 26 and will slink home to shout at her recalcitrant teen: “Why can’t you be like Esther? I’ve warned you about BMI scores before but you’re just so lazy. All the analyses were controlled for age, education, region and illness so that only BMI could be linked to socio-economic situation. Her results, presented at the European Congress on Obesity yesterday, found overwhelmingly that those women with a BMI of 25 or more (the definition of overweight), the less likely they were to have a good job or live in a rich household.

Researchers in Finland have found that obese women are more likely to be unemployed than their slimmer counterparts, have a lower than normal household income and those who are in work are more likely to have badly paid jobs. On top of this they are more likely to feel miserable and lonely. Sirpa Sarlio-Lahteenkorva, from the Department of Public Health at Helsinki University, surveyed some 6,500 men and women aged 25-65 in Finland, and looked at both their body mass index (BMI) and their socio-economic situation. What’s happened here is incredible.”Leeds United have completed the signing of the Portuguese Under-21 international midfielder Bruno Ribeiro from Vitoria Setubal for pounds 500,000. The Dutch international striker Bryan Roy looks set to leave Nottingham Forest for the German Bundesliga newcomers, Hertha Berlin, although a transfer figure has not yet been agreed.. Parents, do you worry about your children turning out bad? Falling into the “underclass”? Becoming a misfit in society? Once upon a time, middle-class parents dreaded their offspring getting into drugs, having babies on benefit, doing time in jail or even dropping out of society altogether, but they now have a new worry A survey has discovered the new underclass – the fat.

We are leaving because, despite Barcelona winning the Spanish Super Cup, the Cup-Winners’ Cup and getting a place in the European Champions’ League and in the Spanish Cup final, we did not win the League title. The 59-year-old former Arsenal manager and full-back, who also coached them to the League and FA Cup double under Bertie Mee in 1971, is to become the head youth coach at Highbury, working with the head of youth development, Liam Brady.Bobby Robson’s No 2 at Barcelona has confirmed that the former England manager is leaving the Spanish club, who seem certain to replace him with the Ajax coach, Louis van Gaal. Jose Mourinho, who arrived with Robson from Porto, said: “Like Bobby, I will be leaving Barcelona on 30 June. I’m of the same opinion as Robson that if Van Gaal doesn’t win the league in his first year, he’ll meet the same fate. Providing Southampton pay the pounds 2m required to buy out the two years left on the 31-year-old’s contract, Wenger has no problem in letting him go.
“Only he knows what he wants to do.