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[–] journalistsarelazy 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I'd like to agree. But it's all superficial. A whole night of cancer awareness, not one mention of obesity. We also had a bake sale for cancer. Says it all.

The obesity post mortem was hidden away online instead of front and centre. Diabetes awareness programme recently but more emphasis on fruit and veg consumption rather than weight. Idiots just think they need a few more apples and that'll do.

We had a childhood obesity policy announcement. Prime minister bottled it, weak af.

It's having almost zero impact. Capitalism rules!

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[–] HarpoonTheFatty 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

To be fair the obesity autopsy was on BBC 3 which is all online now. My town has posters everywhere on the buses to say people should get off the bus one stop earlier and walk that extra distance. We do have the traffic light stuff on foods to raise awareness of what we're eating and in general it has worked to an extent. The five a day campaign was good too, although it changed to 7 at which point we all just got fed up. There's definitely not zero impact, it's just slow change.

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[–] journalistsarelazy 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I'd be interested to see what viewing figures that post mortem had. It should have been on 1 or 2 though.

Granted there are different local efforts like your town but the overall stats aren't improving or reversing this. There's inadequate policy, considering what steps could have been taken but were ignored by May.

It's quite tricky to judge but I'd say the 'slow change' you might see is not nearly enough unfortunately. Probably not even enough to counteract the 980,000 that already have type 2 diabetes but don't even know it. All speculation obviously but if the data hasn't changed then the initiatives aren't going far enough. Anecdotally, I use the packaging info more than other shoppers, and that's way more than I see fats doing.