How should we cut obesity?

[BrilloPad]

BBC News - Mediterranean diet is best way to tackle obesity, say doctors

They make the case for a Mediterranean diet, including fruit and vegetables, nuts and olive oil, citing research suggesting it quickly reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes, and may be better than low-fat diets for sustained weight loss.

My concern is who can afford it? It costs 3 times as much to feed a famiily healthily as on a bad diet.

If you go to a supermarket and have 60p to feed your kids, are you going to spend it on 5 doughnuts or 2 apples?

[administrator]

Soylent! It's not made from people, honest
BBC News - A Point of View: Are we really interested in saving time?

[original PM]

why bother - in the UK if you are fat just go to the hospital - remember it is not your fault it is a disease.

when there is no free health care and you cannot get out of bed because you live on pizza and lard you die....

give people an incentive not to be fat and stop giving them excuses for being fat.

[scooterscot]

tax

[NotAllThere]

If you want to cut obesity eat fewer pies.

[FatLazyContractor]

Option 1: Exercise everyday, No coffee, No biscuits, No butter, No bacon, No pizza, No beer, Eat greens, Eat fruit, Eat veg.

Option 2:

Is the answer obvious yet?

[VectraMan]

tax

Make income tax rates proportional to your BMI. That'd get people losing weight.

[scooterscot]

Make income tax rates proportional to your BMI. That'd get people losing weight.

And tax disc if you're a driver. For a fatty the braking distance is greater.

[Uncle Albert]

Infect one in every 100 fast food meals with dysentery.

Link benefits to BMI. The fatter you are the less you get.

Drill the fatties for blubber and use it to replace our coal fired generators.

Make the doorways to benefit offices REALLY narrow.

[OwlHoot]

Obesity is largely (so to speak) due to having the wrong bacteria in your insides

Are some people doomed to be fat?

(That New Scientist article is behind a pay wall unfortunately.)