Welcome to You The Spectator Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman. On this week's episode, we'll be discussing

Britain's obesity crisis, the upcoming German elections and the England team's footballing woes.

First, Britain's obesity problem is worsening, says Prue Leith in her spectator cover piece this week.

The UK is the sixth fattest nation on earth and more than a quarter of the population is obese.

Yet despite this worrying epidemic, precious little is being done.

It's time for drastic action, says Prue, who argues that we need to get over our view of government intervention as nannying.

So how can we fix this crisis?

Here with some answers are spectator health's Christopher Snowden, Professor Graham McGregor, Chairman of

Action on Sugar, and Professor Francesco Rubino from King's College London. So in her cover piece this week,

Prue Leith says that the fact that the six of the fattest nations, the US, Australia, New Zealand,

Canada, Ireland and the UK all speak English, tells us something about our food culture.

Professor Graham McGregor, do you think she's right about that?

Yes, I mean, there's the responsibility of the food industry. Food industry has caused us to get fat,

and we need to do something about the food industry, because they're the ones causing that,

and we need to control them. the food industry because they're the ones causing that and we need to control them.

What do you propose to control? Well, we've proposed a whole raft of measures.

I mean, we're faced by a real crisis and obesity.

But the biggest crisis is actually a wider one.

That is the biggest cause of death and disability

is now unhealthy food

and that comes from the global burden of disease.

So it's not only obesity, it's type 2 diabetes, it's high blood pressure, it's high cholesterol

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