6. 6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Obesity

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:46 pm on 11 January 2017.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 3:46, 11 January 2017

And I think that’s a point absolutely well made. I think that what we can do is use schools to ensure that young people, by the time they leave schools, are actually at an appropriate body weight, understand all the nutritional values, and understand the importance of exercise and the joy in exercise, because so many young people actually find exercise utterly, utterly joyless at school, which is why we need dance and movement and all these other things, especially for young women. Because a healthy child, Minister, will turn into a healthy adult.

The whole point of this motion is to ensure that the Welsh Government does all it can to make sure that our citizens really understand and that they start their adult life fit, in the right place mentally and physically, because they will then stay trimmer for longer, which will therefore mean better benefits for their own personal health and, of course, an enormous benefit to the NHS and to society as a whole.