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Docs Slam TV Programmes For Side-Stepping Important “Health Messages”
Releasing a list of its "top ten" unhealthiest characters, private healthcare firm Bupa suggested that they could be used to hammer home health messages.
The firm argued that heavy smoker Dot Cotton, from Eastenders, should be shown breathless.
It even said that characters of heavy drinkers in programmes should be shown having broken veins.
Doctors are worried that the characters that are shown to have habits of smoking, drinking and eating unhealthily are generally shown as being in perfect health.
"Characters who have been smoking for many years have implausibly good health," the BBC quoted Dr Peter Mace, Bupa's assistant medical director, as saying.
"Though Dot Cotton has a smoker's voice - deeper than you might expect, she does not seem to be short of breath or wheezy, while Shadrach Dingle, from Emmerdale, should, by rights, have a red face with some broken veins that you may see with his alcohol consumption.
"Tyrone Dobbs, from Coronation Street, consumes far too much saturated fat and does little or no exercise, which would realistically lead to high cholesterol levels which, in turn, may lead to heart disease," he added.
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