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- Title
The bottom line: time to fight the flap.
- Authors
Young, Lynn
- Abstract
Examines the efforts of the British government in reducing the number of obesity cases in Great Britain. Concern of British prime minister Tony Blair and chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson over the increasing statistics of obese people nearing the numbers equivalent to the U.S.; Strategy considerations against the food industry; Suggestion to survey people regarding calorie intake; Recommendation to research into the relationship between alcohol consumption and obesity; Need to tackle the problem as a social issue instead of a medical one.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; OBESITY; BLAIR, Tony, 1953-; DONALDSON, Liam; HEALTH surveys; CALORIC content of foods; ALCOHOL drinking; SOCIAL problems
- Publication
Primary Health Care, 2004, Vol 14, Issue 6, p12
- ISSN
0264-5033
- Publication type
Article