据外媒报道，牛津大学教授格雷呼吁大家，为了老人的健康，不要给他们让座，而格雷教授本身也是一位70岁老人。他表示，老人们应该多多活动身体，保持活力，希望这可以帮助老人们保持身体健康，以免成为英国医疗系统的负担。

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Don't offer your seat on trains and buses to the elderly - standing up is good for them, claims Oxford professor as he urges pensioners to 'play their part' in keeping active

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Giving up a bus or train seat to the elderly could harm their health, a medical expert has warned.

Standing up is good for the elderly and we should not be encouraging them to be less active.

Relatives should also urge their loves ones to take stairs rather than lifts or escalators and walk to the shops with their bags. They should also resist getting a stair lift installed unless really needed.

Oxford professor Sir Muir Gray, who is clinical adviser to Public Health England, said pensioners must 'play their part' in keeping active to avoid becoming a burden to the NHS.

格雷教授说，老人们应该多多活动身体，保持活力。比如在平时尽量走楼梯而不是电梯，尽量亲自拎包出去购物，每天至少也要步行10分钟。

He called on them to 'understand their role' by staying physically fit and urged them to walk for at least 10 minutes a day.

'We need to be encouraging activity as we age – not telling people to put their feet up*,' he told The Sun.

*put your feet up：to relax, especially by sitting with your feet supported above the ground （尤指双脚平放起来）休息

You go home and put your feet up.

亲爱的，你回家后好好歇歇。

'Don't get a stair lift for your ageing parents. And think twice before giving up your seat on the bus or train to an older person. Standing up is great exercise for them.'

“在公交车或火车上给老人让座前一定要三思，站立对他们而言是一个很好的锻炼。”

Retirement is not a time to rest

The NHS* is set to be overwhelmed by a surge in elderly disabled people over the next decade, experts have warned.

*the NHS：the National Health Service 英国国民保健系统

Many forms of cosmetic surgery are not available on (= paid for by) the NHS.

许多种整容手术的费用是不由国民保健系统承担的。

The number of over-65s in England and Wales requiring care will grow by 25 per cent by 2025, according to a study published earlier this year in the Lancet Public Health journal.

Studies have estimated that just 2 per cent of older adults meet weekly exercise requirements. 

《柳叶刀(Lancet)》的一项研究也显示，未来十年，老人和残疾人的增长将使英国国家医疗服务体系不堪重负，英格兰和威尔士地区需要照顾的65岁以上老人数量将在2025年增长25%，但只有2%的老人能够满足每周的锻炼需求。

Lead author Scarlett O'Mally, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Eastbourne District General Hospital, said old age should not be seen as the time to 'take it easy'.

欧麦利（O'mally）医生就认为，人们应该活到老，动到老，而不是把老年当做一个可以尽情放松的时光。

'We need to challenge the idea that old people should rest,' she told The Telegraph. 'People need to keep active however old they are.

'They need to increase activity. Every adult should do a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate physical activity every week and twice weekly strength and balance training.'

She suggested older patients while in hospital should do squats* next to their beds and walk the corridors to improve their recovery time.

*squat [skwɒt]

a crouched posture with knees bent and thighs resting on calves 深蹲；蹲坐

不过，尽管格雷教授似乎说的有理有据，但英国网民们并不买账：