Weight of opinion

I AGREE that tucking into a takeaway once a week if you eat healthily for the rest of the time should not be a problem (Letters).

I have just been a patient at my local hospital where I was told that, because of my health problem, I should watch my weight.

This advice was given to me by my nurses, who were all extremely large, with only one out of six who could be described as slim. Even the doctor was heavy.

I weigh just 9st, so I was surprised at their advice.

PAT BRADLEY, Bolton. WHEN I was a teenager in the Sixties, most people over 40 were overweight and no one ever commented on it.

I would like to dispel the myth that in those days everyone cooked dinner from fresh, wholesome ingredients.

Some of my relatives lived on beans on toast and fry-ups, and the local chippie did a roaring trade.

Hardly anyone went to a gym and I never saw anyone going for a run. People thought 70 was a good age and anything more was a bonus. It might be easier to solve the current obesity problem if people stopped claiming that in the good old days everyone was a fit, health- conscious cooking enthusiast. CHRISTINE HOLLAND,

Moreton, Merseyside. I HAVE a suggestion to help solve the obesity crisis: supermarkets should point out to their customers the ratio between the good and bad things they buy.

This will empower us to buy more healthy food.

On each receipt and in quarterly statements, the supermarket could tell us the number of fruit and veg portions we have bought and the calories we have consumed. ROGER BOWMAN,

St Albans, Herts.