High levels of obesity have left the UK viewed as the fat man of Europe Photofusion/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
The document pushed out by the UK government on 18 August to address an epidemic of obesity among youngsters might as well have not been written.
The long-awaited Childhood Obesity Strategy has been downgraded to a simplistic “plan“, now described as the start of a “conversation” on improving health.
This will be a conversation light years away from spawning any meaningful dialogue and even further from the “robust” and “game changing” measures that health secretary Jeremy Hunt frequently promised…
