Oversize clothes should have obesity helpline numbers sewn on them to try and reduce Britain's fat crisis, a leading professor said today. ...How about clothes for underweight people? Should they sew Twinkies into those?
He is calling for more government intervention with a central agency set up to deal with the problems of obesity.
Britain's fat problem is so acute that it could even bankrupt the health system if nothing is done.
More than half of the UK population is overweight and more than one in five adults is obese. Obese people are at high risk of health problems and treating them takes up an estimated 9 per cent of the health budget.
Prof Sattar is calling for more political intervention.
Friday, December 15, 2006
If You Can Wear This, You're Too Fat
The British nanny-staters are at it again, this time picking on the "plus-sized" set:
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