obesity
Big fat myths
Obesity isn’t soaring, and it doesn’t strain the NHS
Long life
I wrote last week about a swarm of bees that had attached itself to a wall of my house, as…
Diary
To the dentist. And for an extraction. I hadn’t had a tooth out in decades. But the twinges when I…
Fat chance
Why I am not dieting. Ever
Hell on wheels
The mobility scooter plague
Why are there so many fat people in pictures of food banks?
Were you aware that the famous actor Andy Garcia was born with a foetus growing out of his left shoulder?…
Diary
I knew that the historian Sir Richard Evans was a rather abrasive and quarrelsome man, but I was staggered by…
Farewell notebook
So we are all going to have to pay for fatties to have stomach bands and bypasses, are we? It…
The big fat lie about cholesterol
Though I’m not generally big on banning stuff, there’s one substance I would prohibit without a moment’s hesitation — probably on…
Australian Letters
Old cabby’s tale Stephen Rommei’s London cabby story (Diary, 7 June) reminded me of catching a cab one cold night…
Heavy mob
Why slimming clubs don’t deserve public money
Portrait of the week
Home The Somerset Levels continued to wallow in floods. The Environment Agency was widely blamed for not having dredged channels,…
Barometer
Fat chances The National Obesity Forum said that Britain is reaching a ‘doomsday scenario’ where half the population is obese.…
Long life
When I was a child, growing up in Hertfordshire just after the second world war, my parents employed a cook…
