Obesity plan lacks foresight

摘要

If words were eaten and not read, the UK Government would have developed the perfect tool for fighting the world's escalating obesity epidemic. The Tackling obesities-future choices report, issued on Oct 17, 2007, by its Foresight programme (part of the Office for Science), is so indigestible that readers will need strong stomachs to get beyond the first page. Try this convoluted example, from the executive summary, and more worthy of a New Age management consultant than a modern governmental department: "The central dynamic of the obesity system is a positive feedback cycle that locks us into a pattern of positive energy balance as individuals and at a societal level."#