El Opinador Compulsivo

Las consecuencias directas del otorgamiento de estatus de epidemia a la obesidad y la consiguiente intervención estatal en Inglaterra: anorexia y matonismo calórico (enviado por Liberty Bell, que pesa como 150 kilos):

Children are becoming obsessed with calorie-counting and face increased playground bullying about their weight as a result of the Government’s antiobesity campaign, experts said yesterday.

Pupils are overloaded with information about healthy eating, which can lead to a preoccupation with food and fuel the development of eating disorders, according to the specialists.

Ministers have raised the spectre of an increasingly unhealthy society, citing the statistic that more than 13 per cent of British children are already obese and promising millions of pounds for nutritious school meals and cooking lessons.

Obese children have been put on the child protection register, and the Department of Health has attempted to weigh every primary school child in England to assess the scale of the problem.