Slimming

The previous programmes looked at how we have ended up so fat.  In the third part the subject was so called healthy foods.  Health foods have been around a long time, but they really took off in the nineties when a series of health scares over food eroded people’s confidence in the mainstream food industry.

This is the second part of a three part series, though frankly when I reviewed the first part I thought the first one had already covered enough to be getting on with and there wasn’t much more to add.  But this week they looked at advertising and product developments.  Now because we all see food

This programme made the case that rising levels of obesity are linked to increased consumption of sugar.  It was presented as if this was a surprising proposal.  I am not sure how many people would not have heard this proposition before, it was certainly not particularly news to me.  It was presented in a polemical