Date published: 2008/02/18
The BBC says:
Obesity needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, a top nutritional scientist has said.
The chairman of the International Obesity Taskforce wants world leaders to agree a global pact to ensure that everyone is fed healthy food.
Professor Philip James said the challenge of obesity was so great that action was needed now, even without clear evidence of the best options.
He also called for stricter rules on marketing and food labelling.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling. But it is amusing how everyone who has an agenda to plug likes to compare their "crisis" with climate change. After all, climate change is the number one problem facing the planet, and if my problem is as bad as climate change, the whole world should consider my problem to be extremely important and give me lots of attention and lots of money for research.
Hopefully James has something real to contribute, and not just this rather pathetic party political message for his special interest pressure group.
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