Cholesterol Talk!

exerts from this astonishing story from the Sunday Mail - haven’t the prison bosses heard of less costly Natural Cholesterol Management Supplements like Hypocol

…Cholesterol levels rise when people eat too much fatty food and do not exercise enough.

Rising cholesterol can lead to heart disease and heart attacks.

Prison bosses are concerned that inmates spend too much on crisps and chocolates. Others ignore fruit and porridge and binge on chips and fried food.

Routine medical checks on prisoners find more and more with dangerously high cholesterol levels.

…Last July it was revealed that sex offenders at Peterhead Prison - like limbs-in-the-loch killer William Beggs - were being put on exercise programmes because they were piling on the pounds.

Bosses at Barlinnie in Glasgow have put Del Monte fruit pieces on the canteen menu to help prisoners slim. They also started a slimming club with cash rewards for crooks who lost the most weight.

A Scottish Prison Service spokesman said: “We try to encourage a healthy lifestyle.

“The west of Scotland has some of the worst heart problems in Europe and most of our prisoners come from that area.”