What shape might we be in?

Boseley's analysis of the state of our body-mass index is devastating, and the only practical solutions to this public health problem will require considerable public support. The first few chapters are a much expanded and updated summary of the UK's Foresight report, published in 2007, which argued that the prevalence of overweight and obesity are inexorably rising and the financial consequences to the National Health Service would be dire well before 2050.