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Описание: 3 September 2016. Wood Green Shopping City. The Mall, High Road, Wood Green, London N22 6YQ Photo in Fast Food and Public Health album To Recap: The "Obesity Crisis" is a current public health debate in the UK and other countries. In particular the impacts on children and young people. And on adults later in life with if it leads to people suffering diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses and deaths from avoidable diseases. On 6 May 2015, Guardian journalist James Meikle wrote on a: World Health Organisation (WHO) report on a European "Obesity Crisis". Meikle's arricle included a quote from Laura Webber, of the UK Health Forum. She warned of: "... a worrying picture' of rising obesity across Europe". Adding: "Although there is no silver bullet for tackling the epidemic, governments must do more to restrict unhealthy food marketing and make healthy food more affordable". Webber claimed that: " the present 'obesegenic environment' encouraged the over-consumption of energy dense foods and discouraged physical activity. Restricting the marketing of unhealthy food to children, making healthier food more affordable, for example through subsidies on fruit and vegetables, and making less healthy food more expensive by using taxes, for example on sugary drinks, were among the measures needed." James Meikle followed up on 11 May 2015 with a news report on the worldwide trend for 'unhealthy foods' to get cheaper. "The decades-long trend for “unhealthy” foods to get cheaper while fruit and vegetables become more expensive is fuelling the global obesity crisis, according to the Overseas Development Institute thinktank in London. (ODI)" - (Source)

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