-Expand the sugar tax to *all* products containing added sugar.
-Mandatory health labelling instead of the branding on at least 50% of the packaging on any product containing added sugar.
-Any branding that targets children should be banned outright.
Not surprised. When I was last around there, I’d never seen so many fast food places. Drive through on every corner.
1.9% above the England average.
Just went on a big reading spree after seeing this article and found out a couple of interesting things I’d never heard of: the [NICE](https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/obesity/diagnosis/identification-classification/) guidelines classify East Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern and Black people as being overweight if their BMI is over 23 (rather than over 25) and obese if over 27.5 (rather than 30), due to the risk of diseases, including diabetes. And loads of other researchers and even the WHO have published similar stuff about those groups (plus about SE Asians). And that in-utero survivors of [famines](https://www.brown.edu/news/2016-12-12/famine) have a much higher rate of hyperglycaemia and if they have kids together their kids have a higher rate too.
The amount of people in the comments who understand nothing about poverty is absolutely staggering.
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Does the area suffer with higher than average poor fat people?
It’s a spectacularly uneducated area. Source – born in Tipton.
It’s easy enough to resolve. Stop eating fired highly processed crap.
Obvious solution:
-Expand the sugar tax to *all* products containing added sugar.
-Mandatory health labelling instead of the branding on at least 50% of the packaging on any product containing added sugar.
-Any branding that targets children should be banned outright.
Not surprised. When I was last around there, I’d never seen so many fast food places. Drive through on every corner.
1.9% above the England average.
Just went on a big reading spree after seeing this article and found out a couple of interesting things I’d never heard of: the [NICE](https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/obesity/diagnosis/identification-classification/) guidelines classify East Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern and Black people as being overweight if their BMI is over 23 (rather than over 25) and obese if over 27.5 (rather than 30), due to the risk of diseases, including diabetes. And loads of other researchers and even the WHO have published similar stuff about those groups (plus about SE Asians). And that in-utero survivors of [famines](https://www.brown.edu/news/2016-12-12/famine) have a much higher rate of hyperglycaemia and if they have kids together their kids have a higher rate too.
The amount of people in the comments who understand nothing about poverty is absolutely staggering.