Insane new study on obesity:

Individuals can no longer be held responsible for obesity so government must act to stop Britain “sleepwalking” into a crisis, a report has concluded.

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Obesity, the authors concluded, was an inevitable consequence of a society in which energy-dense, cheap foods, labour-saving devices, motorised transport and sedentary work were rife.

In this environment it was surprising that anyone was able to remain thin, Dr Susan Jebb of the Medical Research Council said, and so the notion of obesity simply being a product of personal over-indulgence had to be abandoned for good.

There’s truly nothing simple about mass epidemics, but let me try this argument on a different subject.

Kids today are prettier than ever. They are expert make-up artists, get plastic surgery to fix any flaws, real or imagined, and wear designer clothes. We see airbrushed super-kids on TV and in films, acting out lines written by adults, implying that these kids are intellectually mature as well as physically.

In this environment, it’s surprising that any adults are able to remain non-pedophiles.

Believing that you are not responsible for your own life is a dangerous, emasculating, self-fulfilling prophecy.