Obesity is a crisis on the scale of climate change. Most adults in the UK are overweight and without concerted action we are condemning a generation of children to die before their parents, according to health experts.
The warning came at the launch of the Foresight Report - Tackling Obesities: Future Choices, which predicted that by 2050, 60 per cent of adult men, 50 per cent of adult women and 25 per cent of children could be obese.
'The chilling reality is that modern life makes us overweight,' health secretary Alan Johnson told the House of Commons when he introduced the report. 'In the past, tackling obesity has always been regarded as a matter of personal willpower but, as this report starkly demonstrates, people in the UK are not more gluttonous than previous generations and individual action alone will not be sufficient.'
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