Childhood obesity resigned earlier this week craved a three month upended sen: Ience and a Mark warning from a padge Before his sentence, Me Robinson Big little ones for pulling a similar wound last year, Hut enjoyed a peculiar place in the British reporting restrictions, designed to pee- establishment He appeared on News vent the collapse of the trial on which Mr night a highbrow go programme. bare by three months ago. In 1014 be spoke at Robinson was commenting. meant that these circumstances were not made the Oxford Union, which delights In sometimes hosting dhagreeable sorts. The gap in obesity rates between rich public until four days later. Such imitations may now dry up. But an and poor children is growing By iben, hysteria over the censor- army of Facebook followen, and a grow hip of Me Robinson had broken out. ing profile abroad, mean that Mr Rob T Is mid afternoon in Camberwell Green The conservative Drudge Report, one of inson will not disappear. A global-and l'and the fast food joints are Elling up with the world's largest news bugregators, had disturbingly Large-alternative estab schoolchildren. Some are in groups of the arrestas one of its lead increw, Geert Mahment has already welcomed him. friends, other are picking up dinner with Wilders, a far right Dutch Mor, weighed their family It is hard to escape unhealthy in "The lights of freedom are going out!" food in this south London meighbourhood he declared in a video shared 10,060 Posters in supermarkets and on bus stops times online. Elsewhere, half a million display deals for fray drinks and burgerk people signed an online petition to free Newsagents' doorways glider with packets My Robinson. Even Donald Trump's son, of sweets and crisps. Even's church, con Donald Jr decided to joinin. "Reason verted from a bingo hall, has a snack dis waydo for the original brexit," he tweeted pensing vending machine in lis lobby Mr Robinson's arrest fed into a wider The children of Camberwell Green are narmlive about Britain put forward by a among the latest in England, Half of ten nexus of far right websites and poll and i-year olds there are overweight of ticians in America and Europe. Britain ia obese (meaning that a boy of average portrayed in a police state that h overrun height would weigh over joke, as opposed with Muslims and home to a sinisice to a healthy isbg or sol. By contrast, in Dull "socialised health service that delights wich Village, a few miles south, where in letting children die. Last year President household incomes are twice as high, only Trump retweeted videos from Britain a fifth of children are in that category, one First, a far right anti-kalam poup whore of the lowest levels in the country leader were jailed earlier this year for Poor children have been fatter than rich religiously aggravated harassment, (Like ones since around the ipsos. But over the Mr Robinson. they loo have been arrest- It's jail for you, Mr Robinson past decade the rich have started to slim down. as the poor have got bigger. This is true in poor Camberwell and posh Dal more likely than poor folk to live near there are 8 fast food outlets per 10,090 wich, where rates of childhood obesity green spaces of join sports clubs people, and it in the poorest parts of the have respectively risen by ten percentage ( 3) At the same time there has been an un country according to Public Health Eng points and fallen by two in the paw six even growth of fast food joints, explains Land, a government agency, years, And if is true of the country at large Thomas Burgoine of the Centre for Duet The temptation to indulge is furthered thee chart on next pagek and Activity Research (CEDAR) at Cam by the marketing of Lilly foods Cancer Re- Since the moos the public has become beidge University He and colleagues search UK, a charity, suggests that poor more aware of the risks of obesity, The rich looked at the derisity of fin food outlets in children are more likely than rich ones toll- and well educated are best placed to act on Norfolk between 19go and rook In the be exposed to junk food ads. this knowledge, says Ronny Cheung a pae poorest areas it increased by two mestan People have a limited amount of men districian in London, They have more time rants per 10,090 residents, whereas in the will capacity to think about their problems. to cook healthy meals at home and are richest it grew by just 05 Across England, argues Hugo Harper of the Behavioural In H30 Britain The sights Team, a part-publicly owned think- tank which co-authored a recent report on Getting wider port and the lo the subject with Guy's and St Thomas' in the ensuing England, ten- and 11-year-olds who are overweight Charity. Parents concerned about paying * of total British-born Cl rent and keeping the electricity on are thus greener pastur 40 don, whose less likely to think about cooking a healthy Poorest decile eclipsed Liver dinner. One experiment found that sub 35 the laundere jects who were asked to memorise a long Average firms that had string of numbers were more likely than mon Wong, others to pick a chocolate cake over a fruit 30 Richest decile that more Ch salad. Stress has a similar effect. larly in the cat And it may be getting costlier to eat 25 to close down well. CEDAR found that in 2002-12 the most nutritious foods, like vegetables and un- 2006 08 Two rem 10 12 14 16 The first is to processed meats, were pricier than un- Source: Public Health England Chinese stud healthy meals such as pizzas and burgers- clave. That m and that the price gap grew each year by from television before 9pm and that car- chester's mu about1op ($0.13) per1,ooo calories. toon characters not be permitted to adver- short ride a Politicians have taken note. In April the tise snacks, among other measures. (10) pool's Chin government introduced a tax on sugary But the underlying causes of childhood Jinzhu, who soft drinks. It is expected to announce a obesity are fiendishly tricky to fix. As Sir Liverpool. M new anti-obesity strategy within weeks; Michael Marmot, head of University Col- Chinatown Scotland will set out its own plan in the lege London's Institute of Health Equity, (reflecting th summer. On May 30th a report by the puts it: "If you want to solve the obesity it has strugg health select committee of MPS recom- problem, you have to solve the inequality ing student mended that junk food ads be banned problem first." 42 whose pala A more 2015 by a loo Liverpool's Chinatown ported by t ($265m) "N