The truth about obesity: 10 shocking things you need to know
- Nearly two-thirds of the UK population is either overweight or obese.
- Obesity is shortening our lives.
- Obesity could bankrupt the National Health Service.
- It’s an unfair fight between anti-obesity & food industry marketing.
- Obesity took off in the have-it-all 1980s.
- Snacking is a newly created behaviour.
- The food industry is behaving as the tobacco industry did.
- Your brain, not your stomach, tells you when to stop eating.
- By the age of five, it is almost too late to intervene.
- Obese children are increasingly being taken into care.
Each of these facts is expanded in this article.