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Is it your fault if you’re fat?

16 December 2023

9:00 AM

16 December 2023

9:00 AM

Sorry Santa, but there’s no sugar-coating this: you’re eating too much. And it’s nobody’s fault but your own. Human beings have agency. You have it within your power to cut down.

An excellent book written by restaurateur and policy adviser Henry Dimbleby, with his wife Jemima Lewis, sets out the figures.

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