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Successive governments have made counterproductive policy choices

The growing prevalence of obesity in the UK is partly the result of well-intentioned but counterproductive policy choices made by successive governments over several decades.

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Successive governments have made counterproductive policy choices
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Giving obesity a disproportionately low public health priority
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Overseeing a decline in physical activity
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Subsidising the production of sugar and fat
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Allowing an asymmetry of information on food, nutrition and health
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