Good news.
You have to start somewhere: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step”. The problem is that everyone wants quick fixes whereas the obesity problem has built up over decades and will take a similar length of time to fix.
Years ago there was a programme about obesity in America, one of the case studies was a life insurance firm who’d noticed that there was a big increase in uptake of their medicaid programme. Looking at the data they noticed that a common factor in the referrals was obesity so they got some consultants in to help.
Their headquarters was one of those huge American campus style affairs covering about a square mile. The consultants did three things:
1. They looked at where everyone worked and reassigned their allotted parking spot to the furthest available point from their desk.
2. They turned off the lifts, everyone had to use the stairs.
3. They took the chairs out of all the meeting rooms.
All low to zero cost but it was effective, within a year the referrals had dropped.
It’s that kind of lifestyle changes that are needed and for politicians to acknowledge that the results might not be apparent for several election cycles.