“Then there’s a lifestyle element: there’s fewer green spaces and kids are sat home playing computer games on the TV when in the past they’d have been burning off energy outside.”

Easterbrook does have a point. A lot more people spend more time watching TV and playing video games instead of spending time outside. The point isn’t to blame video games or TV though, even though some people clearly spend to much time doing either activity, the point is that people are sitting on their asses a lot more.

You can’t blame any one thing for obesity. As bad as Mcdonalds is, you’re not gonna get fat from eating it unless you eat a lot of it very often. More often than not, it’s the combination of eating too much and not exercising enough that cause people to become obese (and a lot of the time, exercise can keep you slim even if you eat a lot). People need to stop blaming large corporations for everything and take more responsibility for their own actions or lack of them. No one is forcing anyone else to eat tons of fatty and sugary foods and sit on their *** all day. Those are choices each person makes on their own.