Paying for petrol at the pump can help to stop people getting fat, one of the country’s leading obesity experts said as she warned that shops were tempting people to buy chocolates and sweets. Susan Jebb, an Oxford University professor and adviser to Public Health England on obesity, said that banning junk items at checkouts would work alongside restrictions on promotion and advertising being considered by ministers to bring a shift in Britain’s relationship with food. Professor Jebb told MPs on the health select committee yesterday: “What we’re trying to do is change the food environment. One of the things that really strikes me is the sheer availability of food everywhere: DIY shops, clothes shops, goodness knows what, that now have sweets on the checkout.…

Source: The Times May 08, 2018 23:02 UTC