According to the report, obesity now costs the about the same as smoking and armed conflict, and more than alcoholism and climate change.
It will not be long before obestity will overtake smoking - less and less people are smoking, but more and more people are becoming fat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30122015
Does anybody have any ideas how to stem the tide of people become fatter and fatter?
I have the utmost sympathy for those who are fat because of an underlying medical condition, however the vast majority of people who are fat are so because they eat too much and move too little.
Short of punitively taxing fat laden/sugar laden food to make it less attractive, which is a spectacularly bad idea as that punishes those of us who enjoy these foods occasionally, the only thing I can think of is to make fat people social pariahs the way smokers now are.
It has always puzzled me why gambling addiction, alcohol addiction, drug addiction, even sex and porn addiction are seen as 'illnesses', fat people are seen as 'victims' and yet smokers are seen simply as disgusting who deserve all they get!
Personally, I find it more distateful seeing a fat person eating a pasty than a 'normal' sized person smoking a fag.