Ian Sample

Only the US ranks below us.

And the top countries are Japan, Iceland, and Luxembourg.

Plenty of other countries have risen in the rankings.

Australia, Norway, Portugal, Belgium have all gone up.

And most countries actually increased their health span.

The UK went down pretty steadily over this time, along with the US, the Netherlands, Canada and Germany.

I was interested that the Department of Health and Social Care themselves said that these figures were a disgrace.

that the UK population was getting less healthy.

The Health Foundation, the think tank behind this report, want food firms to make products healthier.

And we know there are a lot of calls for the companies to do that and a lot of resistance to doing so.

They also urge ministers to introduce a minimum unit pricing for alcohol, as is done in Scotland, and tackle a lot of the drug-related harm in particular.

So they want to see this sort of multi-pronged approach.

And I think this idea that we live in this such a

what they call an obesogenic environment, is core to a lot of this ill health.

Maddy, over the weekend, we witnessed an incredible sporting feat.

Not one, but two runners at the London Marathon broke the two-hour barrier.

Sebastian Sawe was the first in with a time of 1 hour 59 and 30 seconds.

And right on his heels was Yomif Kajelcha, who ran it in 1 hour 59 and 41 seconds.

That's incredible that they both managed this feat.

And actually, this brings us on to how they did it, because Tigist Assefa, Yomov Kajelcha and Sebastian Sawe, the fastest woman and the two fastest men, were all wearing the same kind of shoes.