Saturday, 7 March 2009

Then They Came For The Fatties ...


Like drugs, mild forms of Righteousness soon lead to the hard stuff.

A GP has called for a tax on chocolate to tackle Scotland’s obesity and diabetes epidemic, it emerged last night.

Dr David Walker wants the price of chocolate bars, boxes, biscuits and cakes increased to discourage people from gorging themselves and putting their health at risk.

Dr Walker has been urging his patients at Airdrie Health Centre in Lanarkshire to limit their intake of chocolate for years, and was prompted to act following the launch of the SNP’s radical proposals to tackle alcohol misuse.


Now, hands up who really believed they would stop at smokers?