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Yes, I do think that certain politicians need to actually go around various supermarkets and look at what is going on. Junk food is cheap. And I mean, really, really cheap. Your typical Iceland / farm foods ready meals are so cheap that I have to wonder what part of the animal is actually in them. Hooves and arseholes I can only imagine? Anyway, yes, any normal supermarket, the cheapest possible weekly shopping trolley is going to be stuffed full of hydrogenated fats, metabolism-busting additives, salt, MSG, sugar, sugar and more sugar. A healthy, balanced diet is far more expensive.

As a family of four (and that's with two little'uns, not hungry teenagers) we easily spend over £100/week on our shopping and we eat well and healthily. I reckon I could do a quick trip round Iceland and feed us for a week for under £40 on microwave / oven junk, no problem.

To put it simply: A lot of people in this country are fat because they are poor. They are not poor because they are fat. As has been mentioned already, there are plenty of rich fat bastards swaggering around. What of them? What of their punishment? Shall we refuse them treatment when they hit 50 and need their inevitable triple heart bypass? An operation like that costs a small fortune.