If it was genetics, the percentage of overweight and obese people would be the same as in 1970. It is the changed diet since the 1980s that causes this. Too much processed food with high sugar and high carbs.

Blaming genetics for the obesity problem is such a cop-out. Our supermarkets are atrocious: packed to the brim with nutritionally-deficient, ultra-processed rubbish. As a society, we simply eat too much of the wrong things, and we eat much too frequently. Obesity is a problem with elevated insulin. Minimise your carbohydrate intake, focus on fats and proteins for satiety, and watch the weight fall off.

It's not genes that make us struggle with our weight; it's weight that makes us struggle with our jeans.

The moment genetics are brought up as a focal point was the moment this whole documentary breaks apart.

Unbelievable, blame peoples DNA rather than the corporate food industry. Even more terrifyingly this statement is being made by the country’s top physicians.

I never saw ANYONE laughing at fat people at the gym at all. Never ever! It's quite the opposite true; we encourage them to stay and fight the fat together. Most people in the gym are friendly, but have also their earphones in. Gym is for your training routine, not for flirting or looking (good or bad at others). At least this is my experience.

She talks genetics but when I was growing up there was ONE obese girl in my village. I hardly ever saw fat people. Look at videos about life in the 50/60s and you can count on one hand the overweight. Genetics is bollocks. It’s fast food, convenience food, laziness and greed!

This person seems to be absolutely determined to avoid blaming sugar and carbs that we were told was the healthiest diet since 1977.

Empty lives , boring jobs, financial insecurity and the availability of cheap takeaway and supermarket foods full of sugar, starches and addictive chemicals allied to the increased use of private cars has left most of us obese or overweight.

It is the food system, not the medical system that will fix this. Highly processed foods are killing us.

When I tried to "lightly" discuss nutrition and weight to someone who is overweight, I get a lot of pushback. "Oh I eat vegetables, and oatmeal, and I don't eat rice because of the arsenic". As a nurse, I have never had to take care of a patient with arsenic poisoning . Meanwhile I watch them eat foods with ingredients you can't pronounce.

I think it's a few factors: abundance of cheap high carb food; abuse of alcohol being completely normalised; lack of walking (which doesn't tend to make you hungry unlike heavy exercise) and lack of stigma. Stigma is not always a bad thing.

I think they are lying. They should talk more about how the context has changed in the last fifty, sixty years. Junk and processed food are available 24/7 nowadays and these are cheap and very addictive. In some neighbourhoods you cannot buy real food anymore, only junk food, and that is a real problem among others.

A friend of mine from Thailand came to see me recently and was shocked at the size of people here in the UK. I said it was due to all the processed and fast food we have in this country.

Without a doubt one of the worst films on obesity I have seen in recent times. It is totally bypassing the real reasons for obesity. Genetics? Come on... That is a mostly irrelevant side-issue, but the real reason is eating rubbish. And tons of it... No mention of what industrial sugar, or processed food do to your system... The solution is NOT to treat obesity better, but to avoid it as much as possible: By educating people, by enforcing laws on unhealthy foods etc. Was this financed by the food industry or the pharmaceutics industry? Surely one of the two.

There are no obese people, in a famine. I was obese three years ago. Now I'm not, and am the strongest version of myself, so far. I ate less, and moved more. And it worked. Stop telling people that they are powerless to make a difference. For most people, that's simply not true.

80 % nutrition - 20 % sport/exercise

I don’t buy into that genes cause you to be overweight. When I was at school in the 60’s and 70’s only one of our class was overweight, but not by much. We ate freshly cooked food, much smaller portions and meals out were a very occasional treat. Take out food, calorific coffees and home delivered foods were unheard of. Nowadays so many children and teens are very overweight, saying it’s genetic is a get out of jail free card. The lady who said some families eat whatever they like and don’t get fat whilst other families do get fat. That’s bizarre, has she considered that if you swapped their diets over the weights would be reversed too

"Your genes may load the gun but it's your diet/lifestyle that pulls the trigger"

In the past few days, I’ve watched two separate neighbours get their breakfast delivered by Just Eat type service. Both were midweek, not a Sunday treat for example. The ability to order junk food to our door any waking moment is not helping at all. After the mp who made comments about peoples inability to manage cooking fresh food from scratch and often on a budget, I really paid attention to the cost and time I took to prepare home made burgers and jacket potatoes with a lovely filling for the beach. The total cost was around £7 and there was enough to feed 5 people with amazing feedback. This was most significant from moody unadventurous (with food at least) teenagers who commented how much better than McDonalds or any takeaway it all was.

So we should be taking dietary advice from overweight doctors who never mention sugar or processed food. Who is financing these guys?

When parents quit cooking, because both worked, nobody provides healthy meals for children. Everybody comes home tired and they opt for ready meals.

*_"I was laughed at in the gym, because of my size"_* While I don't doubt that this does happen, I believe it's rare as majority of the people who go to the gym are more concerned with their workouts and doing what they (like me) need to do, or whether equipment is available rather than being concerned about who is fat or not.

Did he really say that there has been too much emphasis on personal responsibility? Brilliant! It's not my fault my kids are fat - the doc said so.

Lived in Scotland for my masters and was shocked how the majority of people (not just Scots but also English) were massively obese but after visiting Tesco I wasn't really surprised anymore. There are bargains on sweets and crisps constantly through the shop. Asta was even worse because they sold a lot in xxl packages. Waitrose was only marginally better then Tesco. I always felt like patting on my back when I ended up without anything sweet after shopping. The temptations in all those stores is massive and most people are not disciplined enough to simply pass them by. Also, the majority of the food sold fell under the heading of superprocessed junk food. Stuff that only needs to be warmed up of which Pizza is just one of them.

By stopping eating junk food, soda, fruits juices, processed foods, and come back to NORMAL food made with raw ingredients. The responsibility of fast food companies and food manufacturers is enormous in the global obesity crisis. Of course there is also everyone's responsibility, no one is forced to eat these products that are very harmful to health

I have never seen anyone laughing at a big person in the gym here in Australia. Everyone shows respect when someone is prepared to put in an effort to better themselves.

I worked in 2000 in Uk as a nanny, and I was shocked how english people eat badly. I got very sick with the food the family was eating, I was glad to go back home after several months and find normal food.

Since the late 70s rates of obesity have skyrocketed. If you’re looking at genetics why not look at the control mechanisms around addiction.

Once heard someone say that rejecting/laughing at a fat person at the gym is the equivalent of doing so to a sick patient in a hospital. I remember how terrifying it was to take that first step and feeling like my body isn’t the “right” kind to even be inside a gym and that I’d be laughed out. Been consistently working out for 4 years now and been to gyms all over Europe, some in very rough areas and have come to the conclusion that most people that go and have experience are supportive to people of all sizes and happy to help. Taking that first step and actually joining a gym was by far the hardest part of my journey, but something that everyone will be proud of themselves for doing.

You can't blame genetics for bean over weight when they are eating to many takeaways and drinking to many fizzy drinks and eating a rubbish diet People have control of their diet but often people like to try and find an easy excuse rather than taking responsibility and saying right I need to change my diet and start walking rather than getting in the car

Drs don't tell people when they're overweight, it's as if it's taboo. The body positivity movement is doing massive harm.

I’m 2 minutes in this video and feel sure what they’ve got to say on it will only scratch the surface. The problem lies within, peoples traumas and the habits they lead us too, lack of responsibility.

One of the problems is the type of food that a lot of people eat and portion size has been getting bigger and bigger

People need to be properly educated on health and nutrition. Genetics play a very small part it is a personal responsibility to look after your health

Funny, I guess that 'weight gene' just popped up out of nowhere circa 1970's, right?

OK, some people are more prone to refined carb addiction from improper diet than others, just like some are more prone to alcoholism, drug use, or gambling addiction. But it should not overlooked that refined carbs and poorly sourced processed foods and the resulting insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome are the root problems of obesity in the VAST majority of the people, not genetics. And the solution is a diet that addresses the acquired hormonal problems, allowing for the breaking of the refined carb / processed food addiction. Heal the broken system and the byproduct of the healing will be natural and automatic weight loss. Trying to address weight loss by cutting calories and exercising, without fixing the fouled up hormonal system by excluding the particular types of "food" that broke it to begin with, will fail almost every time in the long haul.

For years my doctors would just say lose weight. But never worked with me on how. I got up to 352 lbs. I finally just decided to start reducing my carbs since I am type 2 diabetic. Then I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I started with an endocrinologist. They helped me. It has been 5 years (with a break in 2020 and 2021 due to stage 3 cancer), I am down so far to 183 lbs. My goal is to be145 lbs. It is just really slow due to certain medical conditions and continued hormone therapy for my cancer it is really hard. I just keep going and I am not discouraged since I have gotten so far already. It is important to eat foods that work for you. What I eat and how I do intermittent fasting won't work for others. I finally found a method that works for me.

I recovered from obesity and now I work as a PT trying to help others do the same. As you can imagine I have spent a lot of time thinking about this issue and observing behaviour. To me it seems the problem is culture, we have normalised and even applaud food addiction and comfort eating. In addition very few people seem to have an internal locus of control and feel like their own behaviours are the result of external factors. From experience I can also tell you that it is very difficult to even talk about weight-loss anymore because it's seen as offensive. But if anyone is struggling, it's so simple, count your calories and do exercise. I lost 5 stone like that.

You do not "suddently" find yourself obese like that young woman seems to imply.She was overweight as a child and now extremely overweight at 30.She did not need to know her BMI, all she needed to do was look in a mirror.

Look at photos of people from the 70's you'll barely see any overweight people, it's not genetics it's the food and overeating

In my whole life, I've never seen a fat person be laughed at for their size. It seems to me, the people featured in this documentary are just looking for excuses: "I don't exercise because people laugh at me", "genetics is to blame", "nobody has ever told me my exact BMI and what to do, and I am suddenly 30 and with a BMI of 60", "the supermarkets are to blame", etc. All that while stuffing their trolleys, fridges, freezers and pantries with pre-fabricated food of the worst kind.

I don't buy it. If you live on a diet of pizza, chocolate and Diet Coke you will get fat no matter what your genetics are. Cut out sugar completely and eat 3 well balanced fresh food meals a day and you will lose weight. It's as simple as that. And no I don't buy the poverty argument. Basic healthy foods are cheap. We have never spent such a small proportion of our incomes on food. What worries me is that obesity is becoming normal and what worries me even more is childhood obesity. It is borderline child abuse in my opinion.

I'm 5'8" and 132 lbs. I am the size I am because I eat for the size of this body. I used to be just over 200 lbs and I was the size I was because I was eating for the size of that body. And yes, I did have complicating factors - an absorption issue prevented treatment of severe hypothyroidism for years until we figured it out (I carried a TSH of 17-22, it was amazing how functional I was). I did have a slightly slower metabolism, coupled with some pretty good depression/anxiety/fatigue issues. But I still lost weight before we figured out how to get my thyroid meds to work by simply eating less. We overcomplicate all of this because people don't want to be at fault for something while missing the best part - it then becomes something they can fix. Food addiction is a very real thing, but instead of getting treatment, people desire to tell themselves that it's the fault of everything around them. Until this is stopped, I don't expect to see an end to the obesity crisis. Personal responsibility is something that is lacking and sorely needed.

People need to start to be responsible with what they’re eating. We all have to control what we eat and how much we eat. But for a lot of people it’s always the same excuse: it’s too hard to work out, it’s too hard to not eat what they want, most overweight adult behave like 5 years old…

I solved my obesity issue when I started eating fermented foods not pickled and stopped eating pasteurised milk and cheese , only fermented cheese and yogurt, more than half of us is made of bacteria, so it have a great Impact on us .also lack of sunlight especially near infrared in the morning and evening when the uv is below 3 which penetrates deep recharges mitochondria and start repairing all the organs , even sitting outside in the shade is very good u will take about 40 percent NIR by reflection on surfaces

You can’t run off a bad diet. Start thinking about insulin levels and the foods that contribute to them. Seed oils, sugars, breads, rice, and the modern food industry are causing the problem. Some of us should never eat carbs.

I lost six stone, 3 rocks,one brick and a bunch of gravel and I’m still ten pebbles overweight!

Genetics don't change to that extent in a single generation. Also, if genetics played such a huge role barbaric surgery wouldn't be so successful in the short term.... it works by making it physically impossible for people to over eat. That's a physical limitation which indicates behavioral issues. Sidenote- there is a significant percentage barbaric surgery doesn't work for long term because they continue to over eat and eventually stretch out their stomach over a period of years and then regain weight because they continue to over eat. Obesity can largely be credited to hyper palatable cheap foods, behaviors/self soothing with foods, and obesity being more socially acceptable. By saying it's mostly genetics, you are giving away thr power to fix it because it will always be something out of your control aka out of your responsibility. i.e. external locus of control. It's damaging and only makes the crises worse.

Definitely isn't genetics. I was chubby as a boy along with both my siblings. Then I started playing football and boxing where as they have not done any sort of exercise. They are obese now where as I'm average. My attitude to life is so different to there's also, my habit and rituals have transferred over into my career also. Accountability is needed along with more education at school

Years ago I heard the bbc mention, in a news bulletin, research showing that people who sleep in complete darkness without even the light of a digital clock are less likely to be overweight. I’ve never heard this again and I wonder why it’s not more publicised. It certainly helped and helps me. I eventually found a sleep mask that totally shuts out all the light but it wasn’t easy to find.

There's 6 siblings in my family....we're all different shapes and sizes. When I was a child 50 years ago you hardly ever saw over weight people...probably because food was prepared and cooked at home instead of take away...People sat around watching telly less than they do now ....and there was no Internet to sit playing ridiculous usless games for hours on end instead of running and playing outdoors...there didn't seem to be access to so much cheap sweet rubbish....we had a treat occasionally so I 100% disagree that it's genetics.

Why do we never see what people with this problem actually eat? Every person I know who is overweight eats junk food, a high percentage of processed food, eats large portions and regularly snacks. Including myself I know three people who eat a maximum of three nutritious meals a day, rarely if ever snack and regularly exercise. We three are our ideal weight and have toned bodies. We are each of different ethnic backgrounds. I know and have known people who yoyo between different weights when they try different diets or exercise regimes. I suspect it would be revealing to see what each of the subjects in this program eats during the day. I will also add that when I'm at a supermarket a person's size almost always (possibly always) corresponds to the food they have in their basket. For the record I have been obese and am now my ideal weight with a BMI under 20. Lost 5 stone and 8" off my waist. 90% or more of this is down to the food I eat. Maybe the other 10% is down to weight training. I'd like to suggest it is closer to 100% food. Took me 5 years through research on KZfaq and books.

Genetics are a very small part Genetics don't choose what people eat

The answer is simple go back to basics and look into human evolution. Eat very little to no carbs as carbohydrates are not an essential nutrient to ingest. Your body will make enough glycogen to survive Eat mainly animal fat and protien. Eat only when hungry and to satiety. Do NOT eat little and frequently so you can stop spikes in insulin production give it a rest. Do NOT eat seed or vegetable oils you can run a truck on it why put it in our bodies. Do NOT have sugar or sweetners. Resistant training is best. Cholesterol is not the issue carbs is.

Tim Spectre of Zoe is the best source of research. Whatever the government says will solve your problems, do the opposite.

I've lost 23kg by not eating carbs. Doing 10k steps and not eating high fat products like McD, KFC, and Coke drinks.

Most people who become fat do not do so from choice but by making poor choices. The reason they make bad choices are many. Governments and health systems promote a high carbohydrate diet and are surprised people get fat. We feed carbohydrates to animals purposely to get them fat before slaughter and as you can see so do humans. We have change from people who used to eat into live to people who live to eat. Advertisers constantly show how eating high carb fattening foods makes for a happy life. Add to this that these high calory fattening foods are hyperpaletable and cheap and you have a recipe for anyone feeling down to indulge in them. This gets people addicted to these foods, they gain weight feel bad and eat more. These foods also do not induce satiety. Its very easy to eat enormous amounts of these low nutrition high energy foods that no one needs in these modern times. It's much more difficult to overeat more satiating fodds like meat and fat because you soon feel full. Doctors receive almost no nutrition education and both they and dietitians get their education from universities that depend upon grants from food and pharmaceutical industries that are happy with the status quo and resist change. Look back to films of the early part of the 20th century and there are few fat people. Our genetics have not changed since then. Humans evolved 4 million years ago on a largely carnivorous diet. Agriculture began around 10 thousand years ago. The hyperpaletable foods developed since the middle of the 20th century have been incorporated into our diet which we did not evolve to eat.

I was overweight. I did not exercise. I ate second portions. I ate snacks between meals. I ate treats without thinking when watching movies etc. I’m now 7 years fit and slim and a marathon runner. Yet every day I have to actively control what I eat. I am always tempted by apple crumble, custard tarts, muffins at Pret, etc. the truth is whether it is genes or culture or social status - we have to just stop eating so much. Whatever the cause. That is the only cure. You can’t exercise out a bad diet. And you can’t lose weight if you eat so much. So even if your genes predispose you to behaviours it doesn’t really matter. We have to reduce quantities and replace junk with healthier options. Governments can help enormously by better regulation of what we eat and the way food is sold- chocolate isles before checkouts are utterly immoral and should be banned immediately.

I also don't buy in to the "genetics is a cause of obesity theory." That's unproven, and is mostly based on statistical studies and not clinical trials. Bad science in a nutshell. We are no different genetically to our ancestors from 50, 60 or even 100 years ago who did not have an obesity problem. Something else is driving this effort to focus on genetics, and I think the finger should be firmly pointed towards the agroindustry who want us to keep consuming the crap they are feeding us.

16 minutes in and the word "sugar" has not been mentioned once. This video is a pitch by the NHS to upsell (from COVID) dependency on its own "experts". Whereas the untold story is the massive scam of low fat diets and the increased use of sugars in nearly all processed foods.

I recently spent three days in hospital in South Australia for a small procedure. The hospital food was largely sugary carbs. They served sickly sweet "orange juice" that was more sugar than orange. If even hospitals can't get nutrition advisors into their kitchens to formulate healthy menus, how can people from lower socioeconomic areas with poor understanding of problems with processed food be expected to learn and cope with trying to change their eating habits?

Look back at videos from the 1960's & earlier. Nobody was fat because ultra-processed convenience foods were hardly a thing yet.

Saturated fat , cholesterol in chicken and processed meat is a true killer . People love their meat and pay the price with their health and longevity.

Its sad medicine has been so corrupted but atleast people aka the masses recognize whats going on ..

It is addiction to fast, cheap, low nutrition foods, and dependance, from an early age, on TV and video games ( rather than socializing, playing outdoors) that are sedentary.

We,ve ‘traditionally’ done nothing. My dear Mother could see what was coming. When I said I was going to study nutrition ( back in 1966 ) she sagely asked if I,d then spend my life seeing obese people! Well, we got round that by not including obesity in our referral criteria. (well, not until the damage was done!) There was no flagging of weight gain. Nothing on prevention. Medics still don,t prioritise nutrition, never mind understand our peculiar food culture. It,s still a Cinderella subject. I have spent the last 50 years following our failures on all fronts : social, cultural, emotional, psychological, political, medical in all their manifestations.We,ve spent the past 30 odd yrs talking of our obesiogenic environment. From Prof Marmot, the Black report to Lord Krebs last summer, there have been myriads of reports. And yet again, the correct Govt fails to implement all the policy recommendations. Obesity has become a dirty word, and opportunities for sensible conversation avoided. Nobody monitors weight gain successfully at those critical key life stages. Mike Lean,s work decades ago ….identifying that vital need for support. We,ve forgotten how to start the conversations. All NHS offers is last attempt,treatment. In the last resort, it is expensive bariatric surgery. And the suggestion on genetic screening. Now? In our health service whet even access to GPs is challenging ? This is not rocket science ( it would be funded if it was ) . Why are we not talking prevention? Prevention happens outside the health service. Everyone needs to be on board. It goes across all areas of our culture & society. Where is the evidence that the sugar tax had any real impact on the ever rising incidence of obesity when Lunch is coffee and a cake. Where is the conversation in making access to healthy food available and affordable? Where are the nudges to increase veg and fruit intakes, where is the positive talk? For the medics, and policy makers, it,s all negative messages. We,re still essentially using the 1987 language of NACNE. Our whole food culture needs to become more positive, nourishing and colourful. Universal and enjoyable. Who said : if you can dream it, you can do it.

Take control of your OWN HEALTH....they (the system) don't care about you ! Don't believe me ..go out for half an hour and take a look around*

Let’s look at the big corporates that promotes sugar especially hidden sugar in foods … let’s look at the big mistake re healthy and unhealthy fats especially around eggs, butter & healthy ones & instead promoting margarine, vegetable oil and low fat products. And eating a little and often and therefore keeping blood sugar levels high & making them insulin resistant…

I was a child in the 1970's & ABSOLUTELY NO-ONE was obese back then! So what happened? I think that between the 70's & the early 2000's "something" has been added to our food that has made it more addictive than heroine. The poor people on 600lb life are clealy addicted to food, but why? Food sustains us. It should NOT be addictive! My weight has yo yoed all my life. I am currently 122 lbs at 5 foot 3 in but I have been as high as 300lbs. & why are we making excuses for this crisis? Being overweight & obese has NOTHING to do with genetics, being big boned, & having thyroid or other medical issues. It is simply about eating too much. We used to call this gluttony. Dont eat carb laden, processed food. Cook healthy meals. Have the odd single day liquid only fast to cleanse your system. Of course it does not help today when non of us here in the UK can see our GP's anymore. We need our GP's!! So why are we no longer allowed to see them? But untill we are allowed to see our GP's again, it is up to US & only us to take care of ourselves. Stay healthy lovely people xx

I live in Southport and there is more squabbling over cycle and bike lanes than obesity. We want to exercise and are told cars rule.

Obesity IS NOT due to health inequality. It is due to cowardice and ignorance, in the Health establishment, politicans and greedy food producers. There may be some who are fat because of hormonal problems or genes but this cannot explain the fact that obese were less than 5% in the 1970s on a lowish carb intake and a highish fat intake. Then, the populations of Anglophone countries went from obtaining most of their calories from fats to obtaining them from carbohydrates for three main reasons. 1. The cowardice of the health establishment in the face of the bullying and manipulative Ancel Keys who imposed his view that fat, especially saturated fat, was the cause of CVD. He was no expert and was contradicted by lots of studies but the health establishment were cowards and didn't tell him to p**s off. Simple carbs are converted rapidly into glucose by insulin that shuts down the use of fat and converts that not used in exercise, which is most of the time, into fat. Once the simple carbs are used we are hungry again. Do this three or five times a day and we get fat. Cutting calories per meal doesn't work. We just reduce our metabolism to compensate and the lack of glucose, to which we are adapted, makes us hungry so we cannot sustain it. 2. This coincided with a fall in cooking at home so people became reliant on ready meals, a godsend for the food producers. 3. Food producers mass produced vast quantities of cheap, easy, simple carbs like white bread, pasta, pizza, rice, fruit juices, chips. 50% of the populatoin get 50-70% of their food intake from low nutrient, cheap, easy, simple to cook and eat simple carbs that carry any flavour easily. Yet they are low nutrient, rapidly turned into fat and increase inflammation leading to obesity, diabetes and CVD. Virtually every non-raw food has sugar added in some form. The only fats we should avoid are transfats [illegal almost everywhere now], and seed oils because of they heat treatment that makes them inflammatory. Other than that, animal fats, butter, olive oil, chocolate, avocado, nuts, etc are all fine but sugar free. So. the way to get slim and stay slim is: 1. Minimise sugar [it is difficult to entirely eliminate it] in all its forms. Sweets, biscuits, honey, syrups, cakes, alcohol, fruit juice, etc. Have them for monthly treats only. Have sugar free eveything. Eat nuts and sugar free chocolate for snacks. Learn some keto recipes. Minimise simple carbs, always use whole grains, chickpeas and lentil for the kids or yourself if you must. Learn some leafy recipes made with olive oil or butter. Don't have sweets, crisps, icecream or biscuits in the house. 2.After a week or two of adjustment, if you want to lose weight for an occasion skip breakfast, dinner or a whole day. Skipping is far easier if you are fat adapted because your body can use your fat for energy. 3. Fat and protein is far far more satisfying than carbs. You could not eat more than 700 calories at a sitting of steak and salad and a glass of wine and then not be hungry till breakfast, then have eggs with ryvita and butter. You could put away 3000 calories of pizza, wine and dessert - and it all goes to fat. 3. Keep moving. walk whenever you can, fast. It works and is sustainable for the rest of your life.

If you are truly interested in addressing this issue, lookup UK Dr. David Unwin. This is a sugar problem, plain and simple.

Brought up in the 50s - never even saw a fast food place until I was 22

Access to cheap, convenient junk food plays such a huge part in the pandemic of obesity worldwide today. I was born in 1951 when supermarkets did not exist. We went to the butcher, greengrocer, bakery, fishmonger and general store for dairy products, soap etc. A side of beef would last a family of 6 for 3 days. Our plates were piled with fresh buttered cabbage and potatoes and I cannot ever remember eating snacks in between meals. Processed food is so full of sugar, salt and additives to allow a longer shelf life, containing no roughage and most importantly, they are ADDICTIVE!! That's where the problem lies, not genetics!

If individual genetic is the main cause of obesity, you shouldn't be seeing a rising number of obese people in a same population year over year.👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

Look at a person who has been lean all their life. Ask yourself how likely it is that they will become obese. Now look at a person who has been overweight most of their life, just how likely is that they will become & more importantly STAY lean? As well as genetics, behaviours are LEARNED from an early age. If you have not learned how to eat moderately & healthily & applied that learning for YEARS you will likely NEVER eat moderately & healthily save for short term diets which you will resent.

In the end it is very simple… calories in versus calories out. Not all calories are equal, that is true.

we drive everywhere-sugar is everywhere- no one knows how to cook their own food-teens don’t dance any more-we drink too much booze- fast food rules-quite predictable 🙄

What we need to do is educate children on how to cook a healthy meal from.scratch . The need .to reintroduce cooking skills in secondary schools. The response we are in this situation is we a medicalising people making poor choices. I lived for a few years with people who were overweight, they always ate more than me. What happended to health promotion ,what is NHS England doing... That's the real question!

To stay fit all you have to do is to cook all meals at home and stay off restaurants and the process food. Also include half hour walk twice a day.

Last week ate a bite of so called “finest” supermarket sausage. Thought it tasted strangely sweet to see it had sugar in the ingredients. As I had only checked for ‘no wheat’ content before I bought it I will need to be more careful in future.

It wont end until the Government acts because the NHS is overwhelmed with the cost implications of the multiple-issues because of obesity. In the same way that the NHS was spending millions on smoking-related diseases..now rather under control. Think that being overweight will effect, all joints and muscles; hearts; immunities and diabetes.. a massive cost.

Almost not a word about food quality and poor eating habits, really? Instead, more 'studies', more treatments, more medication when it is too late. Where is the credibility? The medical profession are salivating at this, and Chris Witty is a prime example of a technocrat who thinks technical interventions are the solution.

One of the biggest problems I see is that yo-yo dieting through terrible organisations (promoted by the NHS) does not educate people. Take for example Slimming World where food is moralised into syns and exercise is portrayed as bad. Nobody is actually educating people on calories, TDEE, nutrient-dense foods or helping them understand energy balance. Once you start to realise that calories really matter and that weighing food is essential to kick start that knowledge, that's when progress is made. Intuitive eating is all well and good, if you have learned to recognise the body's cues. It's a multi-faceted problem driven by many factors. Subsidising sport and fruit and veg would be a great way to start but the Government needs to realise that by removing PE from curriculums and selling playing fields they have exacerbated this problem. When you compare the amount of sports kids from private schools do Vs kids from state schools, it's staggering. All of these small changes contribute over time. Although we must acknowledge that exercise is NOT a good way to lose weight.

If you view film of people in the 1950's they are almost universally slim. That was a time of deprivation following the war and there was less food available and smaller portions were the norm. A calorie is a calorie for all - how can genetics miraculously enable some to extract more energy from a calorie and so grow fatter for the same amount of food? Sceptical. It's sugar that's making people fat. Sugar is the enemy. Not only sugar in its obvious forms, but all carbohydrates such as beer, bread, pasta, potatoes, cakes and biscuits.

What is missing here is the acknowledgement of the impact of trauma and abuse (including narcissistic abuse) on weight, and sleep hygiene. If you are constantly terrorised and not able to sleep the body switches on the adrenals and asks for extra food to keep going. In addition, work conditions these days deny us rest and ask us to be switched on 24/7. Culture and systems need enquiry too. Friends and belonging is critical.

Eat less, move more. Stopping added sugar and eat a plant based diet. I lost 8 stone over 3 years. Bmi now 24.

We need to cut back on fast food chains all over and get the options lowered because its an addiction and people don't want to go back we have opened the Pandora box of fried chicken and coke etc and now we don't want to go back. Its not all genetics that's a cop out. It has some effects but nobody is fat in a famine come on now. Action now chatting about what needs to be done. Same as politicians just talk about options not action. Genetics is rubbish who's fat in a famine ? And let's face it some can sort it and have control and self discipline and then you get the ones who can't including the woman saying its genetics she's one who can't.also not a disease its addiction and lack of self control and discipline

Here in Australia, when you visit a supermarket, the small bottles of Pepsi are literally more expensive than the biggest two litre bottles. McDonald's and KFC always make their upsized meals better value than the regular sized offering. A 7/11 store...........one bottle of 1-25 litre Coke is $4-50, but it's $6-50 for two bottles when purchased together. Now, with this type of criminal behaviour occuring in major retail chains, how will anyone get the message that smaller portions is the better option for health and wellness?

As a Spaniard, the first impression of a British supermarket is the long aisles of microwave meals and the longer aisles of snacks and sweets. Fresh ingredients are tucked somewhere at very expensive prices. It is quite a shock

Tell 3rd world countries about the genetics that the western diet blame fat gain on. If I overeat, I gain weight. If I go into a deficit, I lose weight. Weird how that happens.

What a complete cop out. It’s about carbs, cheap food like products, physical activity and cynical money oriented big business. I lost 7 stone reversed my need for insulin, blood pressure and other meds by going ketogenic - why cut yourself open to fix a simple dietary fix. The medical profession is letting people down apart from a small minority of practitioners who understand like David Unwin. It’s not about genetics.

What people inherit is unhealthy eating practices from their families. Fat children almost always have fat parents. There are some island communities where for centuries, they were slim and ate a healthy diet of fish, fruits, and vegetables. Then, they got McDonald’s and KFC and so forth and now these communities have abandoned their traditional diet for fast food and voila! Rampant obesity and related diseases. The same thing is happening in Dubai and India, where their traditional healthy diet is abandoned for delicious fast food - and you’ve guessed it, now there are children with Type-2 Diabetes and teens needing WLS. Genes might play some role, but that can be overcome with a healthy diet and joyful movement and self-control.

Do we ever mention all the horrible , fake, cheap food in the shops?

(14:57) “We need to make sure the GPs have the equipment and the knowledge…” was the best statement made. If only the GPs in question knew the benefits of combining a 16:8 Time Restricted or Intermittent Fasting schedule with a high-fat, high-protein, low-to-zero carbohydrate intake diet, their patients would lose a significant amount of weight, reverse their disease(s) and enjoy extended longevity as well as saving money. When you only eat once or possibly twice daily with satiating (filling) meats, eggs, fish and fats, it’s amazing how wonderful they will feel! Please give each of your patients CGMs (Continuous Glucose Monitors) and help them understand which foods cause insulin spikes and which help to lower their blood glucose readings. That’s how you’re going to conquer this Monster. #MeatHeals

I wasn't overweight or fat before but when I went vegan, for ethical reasons, I lost 10kg. Even without thinking about it my diet became significantly more nutritious and less calories dense. I went from 65kg to 55kg. I'm female and 5 ft 7. I started with lots of meat subistutes etc which are fairly processed but after a while I didn't even fancy them. No cheese, no chocolate, no ice-cream just because they're not vegan. Now chickpeas, lentils, tofu, tempeh and lots of vegetables. Looked at the cooked breakfast menu the other day. Vegan 'full english': 350 calories Classic full english: 1150 calories. I'm always satiated and satisfied. Thank God I went vegan.

"Only one in three of us are a healthy weight" The other two thirds work for the NHS!

Has the DNA of the people of UK changed recently? It's not the DNA, but the food habits that has changed. The high carb diets, the Big pharma cos and the Big Food companies are responsible for this epidemic. The people who lays down dietary guidelines with conflict of interest in job and paid by the Pharma and food cos are responsible for the disaster

Carbohydrates are addictive and cheap. Protein costs more and the anti meat people are trying to keep humans from consuming animal protein. Simple.