1. A HEALTHY UK? FAT CHANCE...
We are now so lazy as a nation that millions of us won’t or can’t run to catch a bus.
And seven million Britons admit watching television programmes they don’t want to see because they can’t be bothered to get up and change the channel.
It gets worse; British workers are so unfit that 59 per cent cannot walk up two flights of stairs to reach their office, opting for the lift instead.
The study of 2,000 adults by healthcare organisation Nuffield Health reveals our laziness is also damaging our relationships.
Three-quarters of couples say they regularly don’t have the energy for making love.
Two-thirds of parents are “too tired” to play with their kids – and so one in six children is obese before even starting school.
- Daily Express, August 9, 2009.
2. She raised her two kids in a Bronx housing project, but Thursday Sonia Sotomayor’s overjoyed mom took victory laps around her Florida condo complex.
“This is a great day,” Celina Sotomayor, 82, told the Daily News after her daughter was confirmed as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in U.S. history.
For the frail Sotomayor, it was the happy ending to an extraordinary journey - one that began in crushing poverty in rural Puerto Rico, where at age 9, Celina’s mother died and her father abandoned the family.
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