I've just been writing the Weekly News Issue on the cheery subject of childhood obesity.

During my research I've discovered health experts are predicting that 50% of children in Wales will be obese by 2020!

I'm still in shock and after talking to health professionals in Conwy, it seems they are fighting a losing battle.

I was having a swim the other day and there was a little girl in the pool, who quite obviously couldn't swim very well.

She was just sort of floating around in the shallow end, not quite sure what to do, whilst her mother was lying on a fold down chair busily reading a magazine.

The mother seemed oblivious to her daughter and hardly even looked up.

Now as a mother myself I know how important a little bit of 'me time' is but wouldn't it have been better if she was in the pool having a splash around with her daughter?

The little girl was also quite overweight but obviously wasn't getting anything out of being in the pool.

One of the big problems health workers has is to get young people to exercise because many don't want to be laughed at if they are overweight, whilst others just don't think it's 'cool'.

Anyway, rant over. I just think some parents need to be more proactive if we are going to avert this national health disaster.

Note to Louisa, who seems fed-up of reading about me doing things at the Quay. How about giving me some ideas about what else I can do to get fit or don't read my blog!

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