Efforts to increase the general health of the Dutch population appear to be failing, the national statistics office CBS said on Tuesday.

One in two Dutchmen and women don’t exercise enough, one in 10 is obese, one in 10 drinks too much alcohol and over one in four smoke, the CBS said.
And despite government efforts to get us to adopt a more healthy lifestyle, the figures are unchanged from a year ago.
Only 56% of the population gets the recommended 30 minutes exercise a day, the same as a year ago, the research carried out on 10,000 people shows.
And while the number of women who smoke has gone down slightly to 23%, the number of male smokers is unchanged at 31%.