This is the best summary I could come up with:
The celebrity chef and founder of the Leon restaurant chain said that whatever government is in power in 10 years’ time will be “crippled” by the obesity crisis, and called on the prime minister to do more to tackle the issue.
NHS bosses and a former Tory health minister are among a chorus of voices urging Mr Sunak to do more to curb junk food, which they say is fuelling an obesity epidemic.
Whatever government is in power in 10 years’ time will be crippled by the social and economic problems caused by diet-related ill health, if we don’t act now.”
Grilled over why he had undone plans to tackle obesity on the grounds of protecting people’s freedoms, Mr Sunak said smoking was “fundamentally different”.
And Dr Layla McCay, director of policy at the NHS Confederation, which represents hospitals, said the health service would come under “unsustainable pressure” without action to tackle obesity.
“The prime minister’s intention to ban cigarette sales for younger generations is a powerful and important step, but it comes as his government has failed to implement its own food strategy, which recommended sugar and salt taxes and restrictions on advertising,” she said.
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The rules, which would have banned two-for-one junk-food deals,
Setting aside the issue of whether it’s a good idea to address obesity in general by restricting food, which is where the focus of the article seems to be, this particular implementation doesn’t seem like it would work well. Surely one can just create a larger meal at a smaller price that’s functionally similar or equivalent to a two-for-one deal?
To pick on McDonalds as an example, McDonalds (used to) sell a “Mega Potato” fries in Japan that was twice the size of a large. And almost all of their existing burgers were made by increasing the size of older burgers. I’m pretty sure that they’re able to figure out how to make a larger version of an item if they want to do so.
