With cheap and fattening food everywhere, there has been a shape shift that means people do not recognise obesity when they see it in the mirror
The Mile End Road in east London is awash with chicken shops – not places to buy fresh poultry but takeaways where the oil is always bubbling and everything comes with chips. One piece of chicken in batter with fries and a can of full-sugar drink for £1.99. Two pieces for £2.79. There are utilitarian tables inside with red and white plastic cloths and large containers of ketchup, but many of the customers eat as they wander home in their school uniform.
In this London borough – Tower Hamlets – one in eight children starting primary school are obese, and that doubles to more than one in four when they leave, at age 11. The borough has the fifth-highest rate of child obesity in London and the sixth in the country.
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