The price exacted on our happiness, our mobility, our life prospects is incalculable.įirst up, boffins at Aston University in Birmingham have launched the world’s first overweight manikin for medical students. It is costing the NHS upwards of £6.1bn a year. Yet somehow it seems we just can’t free ourselves from a wretched, manic cycle of overeating and overtreating. Two snippets of health news struck me this week and not in a good way.
