Obesity: blame the car, not junk food

FOLLOWING sustained attack by the media on ‘junk food’ as the root cause of obesity, proposals are afoot to restrict the advertising of it on TV, or even to introduce a junk food tax.

Yet again the media has created a myth — and a scapegoat.

People have always eaten ‘junk food’, albeit of a different type — cakes, stodgy puddings, white bread with butter, jam or dripping, huge lumps of fatty meat and ladles of sugar in tea.