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“Lifestyle Horizons provide combined Nutrition advice and Exercise Classes for anyone who wants to improve and maintain their Health and Fitness Lifestyle.  The qualified professional will instruct customers with safe, simple & realistic ways to achieve an everlasting healthier lifestyle in a welcoming, friendly and comfortable atmosphere”

Current Trends and Statistics
According to the BBC Health Website, In the UK, about two-thirds (66 per cent) of adults are now overweight or obese. Of these, 22 per cent of men and 23 per cent of women are obese (at least two to three stone overweight), meaning their weight is putting their health at considerable risk. The level of obesity has tripled in the past 20 years, and is still rising. 

Obesity is rising among children too. In the past ten years it has doubled in six-year-olds (to 8.5 per cent) and trebled among 15-year-olds (to 15 per cent).

These statistics are alarming because being overweight, and especially being obese, increases our risk of many health problems, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, stroke, back and joint pain, osteoarthritis, high blood pressure, gallstones, fatty liver, infertility, breathlessness, depression, snoring, difficulty sleeping and excessive sweating.

Being obese is not a cosmetic issue. It can stop us getting the best from life and put our health at serious risk. In fact, a report from the National Audit Office concluded that obesity could shave an average of nine years from our life span.

According to data compiled by the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) in May 2004, England and Scotland have some of the highest levels of obesity in Europe. And while we still have some catching up to do with the US - where one in three women and more than one in four men are obese - the way things are going in the UK, we could be there by 2010.