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Without ‘drastic government action’ a recent report has warned, obese adults in the UK are set to outnumber those who are a healthy weight within five years. By 2040 nearly four in ten adults in the UK, that’s 21 million people, are projected to be obese, with 19 million classed as overweight. The so-called obesity crisis is costing NHS England more than £6 billion a year while according to a recent World Health Organisation report, within ten years Britain is set to become the fattest nation in Europe, overtaking both Turkey and Malta.

Keen not to be seen to be too nannyish but knowing he has to do something if only ‘to save our NHS’ the government is caught between a rock and a heavy place. You know things are bad when Britain’s most loveable chef Jamie Oliver starts wielding bowls of Eton Mess outside Downing Street. He’s accusing the government of using families’ suffering amid that other calamity, the cost-of-living crisis, as an ‘excuse’ to delay tackling obesity; he seems particularly peeved that the banning of two-for-one offers has been shelved.