THE remarks by the country’s Chief Medical Officer about being overweight as the new normal are frightening.
Dame Sally Davies reckons that “size inflation” in clothes’ shops already means that many of us are unaware that we’re wearing bigger sizes because the label is the same as it always was.
We accept excess drinking as normal, and expect our plates to be piled high with food, both at home and in restaurants.
I don’t, though, understand the suggestion of the Government putting a “sugar tax” on junk food and fizzy drinks, but the message about the whole weight situation is obvious: we’re killing ourselves with too much food and drink, and we won’t even recognise this fact.