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Restrictions on Fast Food Outlets as a Weapon Against Obesity Epidemic
December 28, 2007 at 11:32 AM
Obesity News
“We seem to be winning slowly with smoking, with rates continuing to decline – though less so in women than in men – but we are getting nowhere, it seems, with obesity and overweight.
“Part of the problem is that the epidemic is not taken seriously enough at any level, perhaps because there is no quick fix.
“The solution is multi-faceted ranging from policies to promote physical exercise through to greatly improved integrated public transport and increased disincentives for motor car use to far stronger regulation of food supply and advertising.
“None of these measures will be immediately popular but then the same was true of the early measures against smoking.
“It is a battle for the long-term but the sooner we start the sooner we will begin to have an impact.”
Dr Tony Jewell, Wales’ chief medical officer, said, “The Welsh Assembly Government aims to make it easier to make healthy living choices whether that be the food we eat or the amount of exercise we take.
“Our efforts are to try to change habits, by encouraging people to choose healthy option foods rather than foods high in fat, salt or sugar, and to take exercise such as walking or cycling instead of using the car.
“Planning can be effective indirectly to help improve people’s health and well-being such as minimising the need to travel by car by locating housing, jobs and facilities within walking or cycling distance.
“Local authorities do have environmental health and licensing powers which can be applied to control operation of fast food establishments but this is more about food hygiene than tackling the culture of processed and fast food.”
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