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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Claire O'Boyle

Expert says junk food should be treated like smoking as 2 in 3 Brits overweight or obese

Dr Michael Mosley says the war on fat must adopt radical action that was used to stub out smoking.

He urged No10 to act as two-thirds of Brits are overweight or obese after 30 years of missed Government targets.

The TV medic said: “We’ve got to treat it like smoking. To some degree it’s about personal responsibility but an awful lot of it is about things like marketing, social pressures, accessibility.”

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