Obesity will soon be the new normal. I repeat; obesity will soon be the new normal. Now, there are three ways of collectively responding to this news: take solace, take offence or take action.
Scenario one; everyone with a BMI over 30 punches the air to the roar of the crowd. At last, the long-overdue destigmatisation of bingo wings and pot bellies, saggy moobs and lardy bottoms. Social progress, that's what it is.
Scenario two; everybody with more back fat than a pig (i.e. everybody) takes highly personal offence. How dare the medical establishment engage in fat-shaming? Institutionalised prejudice, that's what it is.
Scenario three; we put down the flaky pastry sausage rolls, strip off our defence mechanisms and take a proverbial long, hard look at our supersized society in the mirror. The unpalatable naked truth, that's what it is.
Before I get lambasted, let me emphasise a greater authority than I - Cancer Research - reached that conclusion, based on hard medical evidence.
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