posted with the same comment I just made on irc

[baratron]

ARGH
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/10/government-forecasts.html
ARGH
ARGh
this is OUR FUCKING GOVERNMENT producing this shit
ARGH

The BMI is a crock of shit at the best of times (how can you trust any measure that rolls fat, muscle and bone together as if it's the same thing?), and in children...? And as for the "fat police" monitoring who can eat what... words fail me.

ARGH!

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[rhialto.livejournal.com]

Whatever one can say about that report (which I obviously don't know anything about), it *is* a fact that obesity is much more prevalent in the UK than in, say, the Netherlands. And that *is* a problem.
(It is getting worse here too, btw)
As an illustration, a friend of mine said to me that he always feels rather fat at home (in the NL) but when he is in the UK he feels almost thin. Or words to that effect.