By Hannah Atterbury
A CANTERBURY health food shop manager has spoken out about the government’s latest plans against obesity.
Following Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s “national ambition” that people “need to be more honest with themselves and eat less” in order to tackle obesity, Stefan Colley, manager of Canterbury Wholefoods, agreed: “People need to have some self degree of control of themselves and take more responsibility for their own body.”
This comes as Mr Lansley’s announcement was met with outcry from leading health figures. Jamie Oliver, a long running campaigner for healthy eating, branded the comments as “worthless, regurgitated, patronising rubbish” while Which? executive director Richard Lloyd said the approach was “woefully inadequate.”
Mr Colley believes that losing weight is down to individuals. “I certainly wouldn’t want the government telling me what I can and can’t eat, and I wouldn’t want them banning certain things.”
The UK has the highest obesity rate in Europe and figures revealed by the Department of Health in September that in Kent a third of adults are overweight.
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