THE Government has launched a fresh crackdown on junk food today in a post-Covid war on obesity.
Part of the Queen s Speech today was dedicated to fighting weight-gain and making Britain healthier.
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The Government wants to get Britain fitter and healthier in the wake of the pandemicCredit: Getty - Contributor
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The Queen delivering the speech as she opens Parliament this morningCredit: BBC
Ministers announced a huge push to improve the overall health of Brits in the wake of Covid - with the aim to prevent problems before they emerge.
One in six adults and more than one in three kids aged ten to 11 are overweight - with obesity a large risk factor in fighting the virus.
PolitiFact s ruling: Mostly False
Here s why: In mid-April, the Texas power grid was faced with a dilemma that looked dangerously familiar to the conditions that led to the February blackouts during the deadly winter freeze: Electricity supply was struggling to keep up with demand.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas assured Texans that the mid-April tightness in the energy market wouldn t lead to any widespread blackouts, but the situation produced more questions about the grid’s overall reliability. In a reprise of the blame casting that occurred in the aftermath of the February blackouts, many observers pointed fingers at the state’s renewable energy generators.
Let’s debate wheelbarrows and economic reinvention
Friday May 07 2021
Summary
Away from political fun and games, discussions on a new economic model for Kenya are welcome, especially in these reflective Covid-19 times.
The proposed engagement promises to cover all counties, all regions and all sectors of the economy. It shouldn’t be the only engagement. We should have more. (Again, wasn’t this the point of BBI?)
Is that it, then?” blared the cover headline of last week’s Sunday Nation. The loud question was posed against collated mugshots of “the usual suspects” in Kenya’s 2022 presidential election battle; six men, all potential candidates, with a “combined political age…close to a century”. In a country crying for something, or someone, different or better or a break from the past, that’s a pretty depressing picture.
To rectify the situation, the Nairobi Metropolitan Services plans to build 24 health facilities and four are already operational in Kayole and Korogocho. [Courtesy]
You must have noticed that every corner block in most estates and even Nairobi’s Central Business District either has a chemist or a clinic.
The Tom Mboya stretch from Ambassadeur Hotel in the CBD to Haile Selassie has 18 such outlets comprising opticians, diagnostics and pharmacies.
The same is the case in city estates. The 10-metre walk between Biafra estate and Jehovah Witness Church in Eastleigh Section III, for instance, has 15 medical related outlets, including five hospitals – two of which opened shop in 2020.