Date published: 2005/03/25
The BBC says:
Even when healthy foods are affordable and accessible people continue to eat unhealthily, experts have warned.
Trials of supplying health foods to communities without good access have disappointing results, an editorial in the British Medical Journal says.
Improving retail provision - one of the government's many strategies to fight obesity - is not enough, write the authors from London and Scotland.
The government said schemes offering affordable fruit and vegetables worked.
But a spokeswoman added: "We know that change can only happen when individuals take action themselves.
Obviously the peasants have not gotten the message. "Let them eat cake" is just so yesterday. What is most amazing about this report is that the middle classes find it surprising that many people would rather eat junk food. They need to get out more.
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