Generation Fat

I’ve seen a lot of the UK in the last month – from the Highlands of Scotland to the Rolling littered fields of Sothern England. And with this UK tour I have noticed something very worrying. So worrying in fact I can now completely understand why our hospitals are full too capacity and our productivity as workers is at an all time low. Everyone in the UK is FAT!

I’ve been privileged enough to be sheltered from Generation Fat by spending the majority of the last 10years in Central London Zone 1 – hanging out with the Fashionista’s and skinny Coked up Rock n Rolla’s of Shoreditch to the Skinny Catwalk Models that frequent the Members clubs in Mayfair. So I have to admit I rarely see that many fat people. Hard to look good in skinny jeans and tight ripped t-shirts if you’re carrying pies around your waist.

On my recent tour of the UK having chosen spending British Pounds rather than heading off overseas to get too few US Dollars or Euros I was confronted by Middle England and their domestic bliss of piling on the calories. How has an entire generation of people managed to let them selves go so badly? Has TV really become so good that these people never leave their sofas anymore? Do people cook for themselves anymore or is breakfast, lunch and dinner now solely confined to the fast food chains on every bland high street that now looks identical to the next?

Adding more tax to chocolate and confectionary may help but the reality is the general grazing culture of eating crap food and lots of it needs to change. If this doesn’t change the UK has a fine chance of overtaking the USA in the fat league tables – do we really want that crown?

Let me know your thoughts on this and whether you are happy to let Generation Fat take over.