Dispatch: NHS Fat-Burning Strategy

By ACSH Staff — Apr 12, 2010
The UK’s National Health Service is spending several thousand pounds to construct a forty-foot effigy of an obese boy eating a burger that they plan to burn publicly as part of a healthy eating drive. “The message that I would get from this is that if you are obese, watch out or the government will burn you,” says Dr. Ross. “They do this instead of teaching healthy eating habits.”

The UK’s National Health Service is spending several thousand pounds to construct a forty-foot effigy of an obese boy eating a burger that they plan to burn publicly as part of a healthy eating drive.

“The message that I would get from this is that if you are obese, watch out or the government will burn you,” says Dr. Ross. “They do this instead of teaching healthy eating habits.”