Obesity levels for adults have hit 26% in Britain and 42.5% in the United States, journalist Johann Hari writes in his new book, Magic Pill. In Australia, recent data shows we’re somewhere in the middle: 31%.
Hari, who grew up eating “almost nothing but junk and processed food”, describes himself as ranging from “slightly underweight to quite seriously obese” from his late teens onwards. He describes a family history of heart problems and diabetes. Shortly before he began writing this book, he recorded his BMI at “just over 30”.
