A sour aftertaste

OF COURSE Boris Johnson is right when he says if people want to lose weight they should simply eat less.

unfortunately, it’s not that simple. In our society, fattening food is plentiful and cheap ( often cheaper than healthy stuff) and many don’t understand how many calories they’re consuming. henry Dimbleby’s Food Strategy aimed to change that by encouraging food manufacturers to use less bad stuff in their products — a strategy the Government has now rejected.

there’s one conclusion to be drawn: they caved in to the powerful food lobby which, like the u.S. gun lobby, uses the argument of ‘choice’ to justify products that, either directly (guns) or indirectly (junk food), kill thousands.