Take a second look at the obesity map of the UK published today. With the lean, green bits largely in the Home Counties, it could easily be a prosperity map of the UK. Except for some strange reason, Scotland (is it really that lean or rich?).
It can only mean that the deep-fried Mars bar is not the calorie-buster we suspected. Indeed, it may well be the secret weapon of Slimming World Scotland. As I shall be up there next week I shall use my journalistic training, and penchant for fish and chip shops, to investigate.
What the map does make evident is that in the 21st century lack of money doesn’t mean lack of food, hunger, and rib-thin people. It means cheap, fattening stodge and a couch-potato lifestyle.
If you are reasonably well off, you can afford to eat sensibly, or if you have no commonsense you can afford the gym fees/pills/personal trainer/surgery to get rid of your excess fat.
As with all health matters today, someone has come up with a hundred reasons why we mustn’t castigate obese people for being obese. Bullying, low self-esteem, overactive glands, water retention, you name it.
Personally, as someone who has never had much of a weight problem, I plump for chip retention.
Yes, plump. Nice word. Onomatopoeic.
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