TACKLING OBESITY By Dr Helena Liaka, MBBS, MSc
The correlation between obesity and mortality rates from Covid-19 is clear and compelling. How many times have you tried to lose weight, in order to improve your appearance, health and longevity? In this day and age, we are surrounded by a plethora of high calorie-density, hyper-palatable foods, with attractive packaging and catchy advertising making it hard to resist temptation. That doesn’t mean we aren’t trying; the average adult in the UK has tried hundreds of diets during their lifetimes, and two thirds of Britons are reported to be dieting at any one time (Mintel, 2015). VIE | Page 15
