The Guardian reports that warnings about Covid-19 to people with obesity are “largely ineffective”, placing too much emphasis on “individual willpower and not enough on the environmental and economic aspects of obesity”.
A Social Market Foundation (SMF) study said bigger obstacles needed to be tackled, such as “food deserts” – areas of more than a million people where poverty, poor transport and a lack of large supermarkets limit access to cheap fruit and vegetables.
A survey conducted for SMF found that only 28% of people who describe themselves as living with obesity said they were taking steps to lose weight because of the pandemic.
Further reading:
- Advice on food to help recover from Covid-19
- No right to food in the UK
- Meat consumption changes in response to Covid-19
