One in four nurses are obese.

Totally meaningless conclusions from such a small sample. The result of 25% was not that different from 23% in the general population and had a comparable sample size been possible then the results may well have been the same.

According to the media, they all have to use food banks..

These food banks have a lot to answer for

Absolutely mecca, but what do they expect?

They're going to gorge themselves if the stuff is going buckshee.

So there we have it - hard work coupled with food banks equals an epidemic of obesity.

Not to worry chaps, Corby will sort it out when he gets into power. After a year there will be no need for food banks as everyone will be on Venezuelan rations. Fat people will become a thing of the past.

The NHS definition of obesity based on the BMI is hardly Gospel. In fact it's often nonsense. The England front row would all be obese for example.

How would having slim nurses telling fat patients to 'look like me' help them?!!!

And only 2 out of 7 are saucy, a stark drop in standards since the '60s when 9 out of 10 were not averse to a bit of slap and tickle and only 1 in 10 was a stern-faced battleaxe Matron.

I think nurses also smoke more than the average.

Probably to help keep their weight down.

Working night shifts is known to significantly increase the risk of becoming obese actually, and it's not long ago that I read that 26.9% of the UK population is obese, making 1 in 4 better than average:)

This thread's fair put me off my Big Mac and double fries, think I'll have a rye biscuit and cream cheese for my tea.

According to the media, they all have to use food banks..

These food banks have a lot to answer for


I was going to make the same point mecca! It must be true cos the Labour Party keep telling us about it !

Nurses using food banks.......not nurses are fat ! That wouldn't fit in with their agenda!

Remember when Japanese companies arrived in the UK imposing their methods on the workforce?
It wasn't unusual to visit a Japanese company before work started, and see most of the staff on the car park doing exercises. I don't know about now.

Image our nursing staff exercising on the car park, with six out of ten wobbling their way through physical jerks.
Most of them would have to take the rest of the day off to recover.

Wonder what % of the patients are obese?

Ken Masters has hit the nail on the head.
In the 60s and 70s it was law that only the matron was allowed to be fat.
Then Thatcher abolished matrons, and the NHS dropped the "bending over and wiggling your bum" from
the nurses entrance exam.
So it's all the Torys fault.

"How would having slim nurses telling fat patients to 'look like me' help them?!!!"

If you have 2 people, one 25 stone telling you that being fat is not good for their health and they need to lose weight and the other is 9 stone and telling you exactly the same thing, which one do you think is more likely to get the message across.

So in fact, in those early days I was working too hard.
And it was the hard work which was making me fat.

That's the downside of being a taster at Cadbury.

Reminds me of a woman running a cafe telling me and my mate that we couldn't have fried egg with our breakfast as they were only doing poached eggs as part of a health policy.

She was about 10 stone overweight.

I think the Nurse as we older chaps remember has gone the same way as the Air Hostess. Today, most of 'em seem to be 'friends of Dorothy'.

I think nurse Gladys Emannuelle was the last to bridge the gap between buxom giggling saucepot and stone-faced leviathan.

Not too long ago, I had a thread on this very subject, based solely on my own observations.

This was founded on those seen, whilst awaiting appointments, and although I wasn't counting, I would say 25% is on the low side!

True that, they may not all have been nursing staff, but those in supporting rolls also.

Interestingly, I don't recall any obese phlebotomists, audiologists or podiatrists or indeed nurses in A&E that I have seen,
but none of these are working shifts and/or long hours!

I'm thinking that, those on long hours will have several breaks, where they eat comfort food, and at times when they wouldn't be eating if at home!
After their shifts, they probably eat again when back at home!

All of this, coupled with a largely sedentary roll, and there you have the recipe for obesity!

As an aside, why is always fat people you see walking about in sports clothing?

Is it the only stuff they can into?

It doesn't bode well for the nation's health, when health workers who are supposed to be experts on the subject can't even look after themselves.

Its not their fault its all down to Brexit and Trump!!!!

Well they get blamed for everything else so why not?

Are largely sedentary rolls fattening?

Only if you follow them up with a few supporting rolls.

Ken Masters has hit the nail on the head.
In the 60s and 70s it was law that only the matron was allowed to be fat.
Then Thatcher abolished matrons, and the NHS dropped the "bending over and wiggling your bum" from
the nurses entrance exam.
So it's all the Torys fault.

Indeed.

The final straw was the gradual de-sexualization of the former fabulous nurse uniform. These days it's hard to tell the tea ladies from the nurses.

Looking at some of the modern day 'Angels', I doubt some of them have ever worn a pair of stockings with suspender belts.

What sort of confidence does that give a typical male patient who was brought up on the 'Carry On' films?

Mary Millington used to look good in or out of a nurses uniform.

All this advice we are given on diet and exercise, yet medical staff who are at the heart of medicine seem to completely ignore it.
Do they know something the rest of us don't know? It seems they know less from where I'm standing.

I read about a campaign to get more medical staff to have the flu jab.
Only 37% of them were jabbed in 2010. I believe the situation now is little changed.
It shows how effective or ineffective these vaccines are when they have to put pressure on their own staff to take them.

I concur with ken & alun about these nursing failures and would add that following a recent hospital stay it seems that innuendo has also been lost from our wonderful NHS.

Happily I can draw your collective attention to a documentary that showed the daily workings of a "bawdy 1970s hospital".

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM_GSByevxk

We need to give the nurses more money so that they can spend less on food ??????

Derek and Clive - Nurse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ujmkLTGNM