In each issue of the Journal of General Practice Nursing we investigate a topic currently affecting our readers. Here, Binkie Mais asks...

How can we stop Britain from being ‘the fat man of Europe’?

Despite numerous public health campaigns encouraging us to drink and smoke less, eat more healthily and take-up some form of exercise, the UK population is still facing an obesity epidemic. Indeed, one in four British adults are said to be obese, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and, if current trends are not reversed, more than half the population could be obese by 2050.