Government 'not doing nearly enough' to tackle obesity, says former Tory health minister
The Government is "not doing nearly enough" to tackle Britain's obesity crisis, a former Conservative health minister has claimed, as analysis revealed that more than a billion people worldwide are obese.
Tory peer Lord James Bethell said that obesity was an "unspoken epidemic" in the UK and that the public would back measures such as a wider sugar tax and restrictions on junk food advertising.
Research published on Friday by the journal The Lancet suggests that
