My prescription for the obesity epidemic

Last Monday another obesity story broke. The National Obesity Forum (NOF) published a report called "The state of the nation's waistline". The Executive summary noted the 2007 Foresight report, which predicted that half the UK population would be obese by 2050, and suggested that "if anything, the situation is even worse."

The 'it's even worse than we thought' angle was the one that made the he...