Fatville

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 Study of Obesity, has called for a ‘fat tax’ on unhealthy foods, claiming that “our kids are eating themselves into an early grave”.

It’s the age old quandary isn’t it? The more you tell someone NOT to do something (like kids and smoking) the more the little blighters seem to want to do it.

Sadly, in Fatville, we have a similar problem with food.

We fear that telling people to run in fear from cream cakes and chocolate biscuits may actually exacerbate some of the dysfunctional and addictive behaviours that are already rife in our topsy-turvy world…