The Star Of Adipose

Naveed Sattar is a professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow. He also has a lovely new recommendation for Britain. He's very worried that too many Britons are overweight, so he has a modest proposal to address the issue of obesity.

Fat people should be required to have obesity helpline phone numbers on their clothes.

Oversize clothes should have obesity helpline numbers sewn on them to try and reduce Britain's fat crisis, a leading professor said today.

And new urban roads should only be built if they have cycle lanes, according to Naveed Sattar, Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow.

He is calling for more government intervention with a central agency set up to deal with the problems of obesity.

Britain's fat problem is so acute that it could even bankrupt the health system if nothing is done.

More than half of the UK population is overweight and more than one in five adults is obese. Obese people are at high risk of health problems and treating them takes up an estimated 9 per cent of the health budget.

Prof Sattar is calling for more political intervention.

Gee where have we heard of that kind of thing before. Oh, yeah. Just have to change the word.

(Incidentally, even if he meant inside the clothes, the thought is the same.)