As J. J. C. Monk so kindly points out, in Figure 4 of “Food, glorious food”
the female symbol was printed upside down so that it resembled the symbol for a
church. More seriously, the prevalences of clinical obesity shown for males and
females were inadvertently switched (for example, in 1986 the figures should
have been 11 per cent for women and 8 per cent for men), and the top calibration
on the vertical axis should be 15 per cent, not 20 per cent as printed. Also, in
figure 2 the words “micrograms” and “milligrams” were interchanged in the
vitamin A and C columns. Red faces all round—Ed.
