RAMPANT obesity among children threatens to reverse rises in life expectancy in the UK, the country’s “food tsar” has warned in an attack on the “fast-food, couch potato” culture sweeping the nation’s youth. If nothing is done, “for the first time in a hundred years life expectancy will actually go down”, John Krebs, chairman of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) told the London-based newspaper The Observer.
His comments have ignited a debate about whether fast food advertising aimed at children should be banned, and whether the food industry should be forced to add less salt, sugar and fat to foods…
