CHOC HORRORS

CADBURY’s chocolate bars have been banned from hospitals across the country. Quite right you might think — chocolate can hardly be labelled a health food. Yet managers have taken this move not to preserve patients’ health, it seems, but to preserve profit. The supplier was trying to charge more: the NHS makes money from each chocolate bar sold, so either the NHS takes a profit cut, or charges the customer more.

This comes in the same week we learn that millennials are set to be the fattest generation ever — little wonder when chocolate bars have been sold so enthusiastically even by institutions that are supposed to preserve our health.