A strategy to cut the number of people with obesity and more at risk of potentially fatal Covid, has failed to have much impact on behaviour, says report
Boris Johnson’s appeal to Britons to slim down in response to the pandemic has not helped most people lose weight, according to new research calling for a far more wide-ranging response to the obesity crisis.
Warnings about the potential added risks Covid-19 poses to people with obesity are “largely ineffective”, the study found. It said ministers placed too much emphasis on “individual willpower and not enough on the environmental and economic aspects of obesity”.
