By compelling us to extend our lives, the public health lobby is priming the real time bomb beneath the NHS: our ageing population.
It is obscene that people have been left in limbo and handed cash rather than given help for their problems.
There is only one way to lose weight, and I’ll reveal the secret to you.
The Coalition’s Responsibility Deal needs to be transformed into a legislative framework which is phased in over the next five to ten years.
The NHS is threatened by obesity, not mansions.
It’s time that Ministers stopped talking about obesity and started instead using the public health levers that remain under their control to deliver action and results.
America – world famous for its adipose adults and chubby children – appears to have turned a corner in respect to its youngest citizens
Also: Welsh patients told to ‘gain weight’ to receive anti-obesity surgery; and NI deadlock on benefit reform.
The Department for Education has issued guidance in which running is identified as a suitable punishment for misbehaving pupils
On issues from abortion to the use of recreational drugs, what people are told to think these days is that ‘it’s my body and I can do what I like with it.’
Obesity isn’t just a problem in the developed world, it is a global (and, indeed, globular) crisis. We must, of course, resist the temptation to make light of this issue, because the implications are deadly serious – as David Berreby reminds us in a startling article for Aeon: “For the first time in human history, […]
If you didn’t catch Neil O’Brien’s thought-provoking report for the Daily Telegraph last week, here’s another chance. He begins by comparing the cognitive development of rich and poor children: “By the time they are 62 months old, the cognitive development of the children of the richest 20% is 16 months ahead of children from the poorest 20%.” What […]
Public health builds mechanisms for limitless state interference in our lives but with no clear case for why living longer justifies overriding personal freedom.