The Belgian city of Ghent has declared one meat-free day a week in an attempt to ward off obesity and highlight sustainability issues. This initiative might sound a bit ruddy mental but it’s certainly got us thinking here in Fatville. Sometimes ‘health’ is presented as a pretty black and white issue; you’re either fat [...]
Here in Fatville, we’re not surprised that, according to research conducted by Quorn, the middle classes eat more takeaways than the general population. Although it might be comforting to imagine that being middle class somehow makes one immune to the strangeness of Fatville…the truth is that no demographic is safe from its charms. Whilst [...]
The concept of levying taxes on certain foods is mooted at regular intervals. Back in March, Dr David Walker called for a ‘choco-tax’ in The Telegraph, stating that “chocolate is sneaking under the radar of unhealthy foods. Today in the same newspaper, Dr Tim Lobstein, director of the childhood obesity programme at the International Association for the [...]
Encouraging children to use interactive computer games such as the Nintendo Wii will become part of a public health drive to tackle rising rates of obesity amongst the young according to The Times. The findings of a pilot project in the East Midlands show that playing interactive games could increase the number of calories burnt by [...]