Coronavirus doctor's diary: How gardening could help in the fight against obesity
Our efforts to tackle obesity are depressingly futile and the girth of the world's population continues to expand. We focus too often on blaming people for bad choices rather than addressing the wider, interacting and complex conditions that lead to obesity. There is no simple behaviour change advice comparable to hand-washing or social distancing, no simple drugs such as dexamethasone or remdesivir to dispense.
"It will be really interesting to see what lockdown has done: for some it's been a useful period to think about exercise. And others have gone the other way and they've been in all the time, watching TV and eating more," he says.Bradford paediatric dietitian Alison Woodhead helping to clear junk food from a fridge with Maryam, 14
"I wanted to enjoy my pregnancy but still needed a challenge and investigated what I could do in the local community," she says. She'd already been involved in a programme to teach fencing to Muslim young women and girls and now she had an idea for another project - to promote good health by taking over allotments and turning derelict land into a community garden.
"We have all looked after the allotment and helped grow things. All the women here are helping and we've been out walking through lockdown - it was encouraging to have someone thinking about health," she says.
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