Tom Papworth of the Institute for Economic Affairs breaks it down nicely: Doctors just can’t help trying to save people, it seems.
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which brings together the presidents of the Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties and so purports to represent nearly every doctor in the UK, is to lead a campaign to tackle rising levels of obesity.
One’s initial reaction might be to welcome a medical intervention aimed at combating something that kills as many as 30,000 people each year. But unfortunately, it is not a medical intervention that these doctors have planned.
Quote from Tom: “It seems that, in pursuit of its crusade to make us thin and healthy, the medical establishment is willing to cross any boundary.”
Ask any anorexic, it’s not healthy to be thin.