Britain’s chief medical officer has said online shopping is making the population unfit and has suggested people walk to the supermarket and carry the bags home in a bid to get fit. Dame Sally Davies urged the public to make “little changes” to their everyday habits warning that our lifestyle is becoming a pressing health problem that the nation faces.
Government guidelines recommend we do 20 minutes go “muscle strengthening” exercise twice a week in addition to aerobic exercise. She said this basic requirement can be met by a couple of journeys with heavy shopping, gardening or by yoga.
Steven Ward from ukactive, a nonprofit organisation advocating an active lifestyle says “Modern living has made us more inactive than ever before. Where once we would walk around the office talking to colleagues and carry him our groceries, today we fire off emails and have Tesco deliver food to our door.”
Last year UK spent £8.6bn in online grocery sales, it is predicted ti reach £15bn by 2020.