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I would agree with Lucy for the most part. Whilst the people who commented that people are responsible for themselves do have a certain validity in their point, the fact is that people arent given enough of an incentive to stay fit. I work with a guy who is extremely obese, He is almost exactly like Peter Griffin from family guy, short legs, huge body. He was recently told that he was Diabetic, and had to radically change his diet. This guy lives for eating, everytime he speaks to his wife on the phone, its always about what he will cook for dinner. He was told that he should snack with rice cakes instead of his usual mars bar and packet of crisps, and to eat less. He basically ignored the eat less part, and instead of replacing his snacks with rice cakes, he just added them in, so now he eats mars bars, crisps AND rice cakes. YES it is largely his own fault, but i think that being in his late 40's and being the size that he is, He probably feels that its pointless trying to lose weight now as he wont be able to get very far, and also, he has NO will power when it comes to food. My point being that whilst he needs to be able to force himself to cut back on food, his doctor, his wife, and his friends need to help by pointing out that A) its not too late, B) the real risks that he is facing and C) eating healthy food only works properly if you control portion size,

Posted 13 February 2011 at 13:18 by Matt Belshaw

I think education is resposible for obesity. education comes in many different forms from advertising through to tv programmes, articles, schooling, parents etc etc. The message predominantly in the UK is "why do more when you can do less,? why pay more when you can pay less? why cook for longer when you can cook for no time at all?" and so on and so forth. We read how to juggle time, careere, kids, finances and yet essentially through the blur the only message really coming through is "why bother you cant win anyway". As a culture we lack taking resposibility for ourselves and others because its too much bother to do a bit of work around it because we have been educated that life should be easy and if it isnt we actually dont know how to cope. Education needs to be teaching "backbone" first and foremost and listen a sec? where is peoples creative energy gone to solve problems? It is gone in a horrible mixture of Paris Hilton type shows where the hieress of a billion pounds shares with us a glimpse into her uterly meaningless life!!! Sorry, but apathy is the real issue there is obesity and it is apathy on the part of education through all available sources. Lucy Case FD

Posted 1 September 2009 at 12:21 by Lucy Case

The people resposible for obesity are the people who are obese. The knowledge is out there, read it, act on it. CC

Posted 6 August 2009 at 13:22 by Charles Carr

We are accountable for ourselves Sharon yes, but who is accountable for the mixed messages we recieve around food? If all food advertising was banned and all junk and refined foods removed from our shelves and all master Chefs started to demo cooking which was cheap, realistic and wholesome, then this would help surely? Pete

Posted 6 May 2009 at 13:57 by peter jiboz

Each person has to take resposibility for there own selves but it is important to pass healthy messages down to children. Food is still used as a means of showing people we care for them and so the messages to kids have to be very carefully thought about. Media is not reflecting what is required and adults seem too silly tthese days o be able to differentiate between healthy love and unhealthy love. Brian

Posted 21 April 2009 at 17:40 by Brian Smitt

Not me. D

Posted 10 April 2009 at 08:56 by Duncan Bailey-Smith