General Article ‘I’m a doctor – here’s how I would solve Britain’s obesity crisis’

Topic Selected: Obesity Book Volume: 436

From a GP to the head of the behavioural ‘nudge’ unit, three professionals give their opinions on how to tackle our weight problem.

By Charlotte Lytton

For 30 years, curtailing obesity rates in Britain has made it onto successive prime ministers’ agendas – yet it’s proven to be the nettle none can grasp. Fourteen strategies, 689 policies and a further 14 bodies specifically set up (and then disbanded) later, waistlines in the UK are only growing, with nothing seemingly able to halt the trend....

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