Where I somehow manage to link obesity with the end of the British Empire.
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Modern life has come to resemble that of the adult sea squirt; thinking is prioritised, movement is downgraded and human experience can be experienced entirely though a screen. In this year-long experiment of inactivity and inertia (cheerily marketed as ‘lockdown’), will we pay the price for neglecting a fundamental part of our nature?
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The Royal Society for Public Health has called for the introduction of ‘activity equivalent’ calorie labelling and have suggested packaging containing information on how much physical activity it takes to burn off the calories. Many of the public health interventions are focused on the individual taking full responsibility for their health, however it must be noted that the environment around us has a huge impact on the decisions we make.
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There is a huge gap between what the public and what current research is revealing about health. Sure, it’s easier to blame our genes than to recognise how our lifestyle choices affect the epigenetic expression of our genes. This fatalism has created a sense that we are victims to the whims around us; as we supposedly have little control over the illnesses that afflict us, we can chalk it down to bad luck when a disease strikes.
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