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Boris Johnson’s cycling ‘revolution’ to tackle obesity is nothing more than a ‘gross deception’

Dr Aseem Malhotra, one of the UK’s leading anti-obesity campaigners, says the Government is still appeasing the food industry and focusing on wrong things

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/ase...-obesity-614501

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Boris Johnson’s recent anti-obesity “crackdown”, spearheaded by the Government’s £2bn “cycling and walking revolution”, should have gone down well with health experts.

The “Better Health” campaign, offering advice to 35 million people on how to lose weight and keep it off, was launched with the message that being overweight or obese puts people at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19. Yet one expert was left deeply unimpressed.

“It’s a gross deception,” fumes Aseem Malhotra, an NHS-trained cardiologist and one of the UK’s leading anti-obesity campaigners.

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Taking on the ultra-processed food industry

A public health campaign on “ultra-processed food”, telling people to stop eating food that comes out of a packet and has five or more ingredients, would help save lives even if the Government ran it for just a few weeks, says Dr Aseem Malhotra.“

If you followed that advice for a month, you’d lose more than five pounds and be much healthier because of it,” he says.“More than half our calorie intake is from ultra-processed food. But we haven’t [run this campaign] and it’s yet another example of appeasing the food industry. It’s a national scandal and we shouldn’t allow it to continue.

“We need to start saying that type 2 diabetes is ‘ultra-processed food disease’, heart disease is ‘ultra-processed food disease’, obesity is ‘ultra-processed food disease’, high blood pressure is ‘ultra-processed food disease’.

“Let’s just keep repeating that mantra and educate people what ultra-processed food is. It’s the new tobacco and we need to start treating it that way.”