How getting young people into sport could save the UK millions

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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A great many of us spent our childhoods with terrible associations with sport. To this day I dislike it, despite not wanting to.

  I’m hoping I can make it more fun for my daughter so she can walk a different path.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe schools could focus more on the fun part of most sports rather than actively trying to make it unpleasant when it doesn’t need to be

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• cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everything in the world…reduced to the financial return. It is all for the good of the economy. Even the sports activities of children. Americans already did this with college sports scholarships. Now this thinking comes to England.

  Agree with expanding youth sports programmes though.

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Study: Brits have shit health and getting the population active and physically fit at an early age produces an adult population with fewer health problems.

    You: This is bullshit and capitalism and somehow America is to blame!

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you think of money as a proxy for human effort weighted by two important factors (how much people want that effort, and how easy it would be to get someone else to do the effort) then saving money amounts to saving effort.

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